Ivan Sigal

IPFS at Eurosky Live Berlin: Highlights From A Bright Future The Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto or AT), which sits under Bluesky and many other emerging projects, has tremendous potential. At the IPFS Foundation, we're big fans, and not just because A...

Our very own @robin.berjon.com reports from his time at @eurosky.social's Eurosky Live in Berlin two weeks ago. There's a bright future for content addressing on tomorrow's web!
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Big Tech continues to control our online spaces, threatening free speech and democracy globally, but we’re doubling down on our commitment to support decentralized open social technology. For #GivingTuesday, we're asking for your support: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fr...

SHOW GlobalVoices the [#GivingTuesday heart] globalvoices/donate

This #GivingTuesday don't forget about global, multilingual, community journalism. @globalvoices.org brings you the stories that our community members know need telling. We're under threat from authoritarianism, budget cuts, & attacks on journalists. You can help. globalvoices.org/donate/

wait what? No universal truth in good design? :-)

Another timely summary plus analysis on state of open social by @laurenshof.online. If this topic is your jam, this newsletter is for you.

Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech ...

🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency.
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...

Excellent, and thanks for the roundup and kudos to everyone building the atproto ecosystem.

Bluesky + A New Social = Heart

We're excited to announce that Bluesky PBC included us in a round of grants to help foster the ATmosphere! Their generous grant will support infrastructure costs for Bridgy Fed and Bounce.

We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼

Here are a few we're excited about:

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Panel: Owning the Pipeline - European Media in Interoperable Distribution Owning the Pipeline - European Media in Interoperable Distribution with Philipp Schild (Funk); Catherine Tait (New_Public); Robert Amlung (ZDF); Sander van der Waal…

Catherine Tait, Philipp Schild, @amlung.bsky.social, @sandervdwaal.bsky.social and @ivansigal.bsky.social discussed how interoperable infrastructure can reinvent media’s relationship with audiences, break down platform monopolies and preserve journalistic independence. vimeo.com/1140417552?s...

Very happy to have been able to contribute to this event, and thanks to @taylorowen.bsky.social and colleagues for producing a stellar event.

ATmosphere Report 143 - Eurosky Live on protocol architecture and power

Eurosky Live in Berlin was this week (great to see so many cool people!), and I wrote about building open social networking protocols is about more than just building an alternative to Big Tech's platform power

Love that by extension (via screenshot) @laurenshof.online, @sherifea.com, @anke.domscheit-berg.de, @robin.berjon.com, @bnewbold.net and Colin Robinson (those who know know) made it into the German news :)
Great article (!) about the @eurosky.social conference with mentions of:

What do we have here?

@bnewbold.net and @robin.berjon.com talking all things AT Protocol. #EuroskyLive

Live now: all about the future of of media #EuroskyLive

And @alexandrageese.bsky.social is on fire today. Frustration from yesterday's tech sovereignty summit? #EuroskyLive

Free Our Feeds - Update #5, November 2025 It’s the season for travel. Many of our custodians have traversed North America and Europe the past month, making stops at Attention: Govern or be governed, The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, S...

We're in Berlin this week with @eurosky.social and many others for #EuroskyLive, a conference on digital sovereignty, media independence, startup opportunities, and the future of social technology being built and governed in Europe. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...

@eurosky.social's livestream on stream.place Eurosky Live from Berlin

We've kicked off #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Livestream the event here: stream.place/eurosky.soci...

@eurosky.social‘s live event has its own starter pack now:

#EuroskyLive

Very excited to be supporting @eurosky.social live event in Berlin next week. Open social tech futures in Europe, and how to do it, with a great crew of thinkers, creatives and technologists.

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

A BBC study shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news outlets’ homepages have plummeted in recent months — Nieman Lab reporters @andrewdeck.bsky.social and @hanaatameez.bsky.social found they declined by 87% starting in May of this year. They decided to find out why. buff.ly/rhtRGcr

Free Our Feeds - Update #4, October 2025 After a brief slowdown for the endless holidays of northern summer, we at Free Our Feeds have been preparing for the next stage of our initiative: writing, speaking, scheming, and planning. Top of lin...

Happy to share latest update from #freeourfeeds campaign, covering highlights from the past few months and outlining upcoming events and appearances. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...

Join #freeourfeeds and @eurosky.social on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin as European leaders, policymakers, developers, and investors explore what's already being built and chart the path forward for Europe’s open social web. We are so pleased that @alexandrageese.bsky.social will be joining us!

Since 2011, Heike led Rhineland-Palatinate's digital transformation as Government CIO, focusing on responsive & barrier-free public services. A former member of the State Parliament, she brings a crucial perspective on how governments can support the infrastructure needed for Europe's digital future

Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025 · Luma Showcase • Keynotes • Panels Join founders, developers, media, policy-makers, and investors for a full-day public programme exploring the European open social…

Join us on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin for Eurosky Live. This is for anyone building, funding, or shaping Europe's digital future.

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Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.

Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.

Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Own Your Algorithm == Ow Ya! Lovely to see the new G in the wild.

Were you looking for this, just happen to already have known about it, or stumble upon it? I have questions.

Very pleased to see this #Indiesky project put #freeourfeeds funds to good use, supporting Northsky in their community building efforts. Congratulations @transrights.northsky.social and @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca

"The true free speech absolutists in the tech industry aren’t the ones making the most noise. They’re the ones building platforms that are untouchable. Whether those solutions operate on blockchain or some other technology, it’s clearly the future of free speech." cc @ivansigal.bsky.social