Just came across eurosky.social, a new European identity system launching this month:
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Just came across eurosky.social, a new European identity system launching this month:
https://www.eurosky.social/registerIt gives you a portable social identity powered by the #ATProtocol that works across apps like #Bluesky and lets you move your data and connections freely. It’s hosted under #European law and aims to reduce platform lock-in while expanding the #OpenSocialWeb. Sounds interesting. However, it does not work with #Mastodon, which is based on #ActivityPub.
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Just came across eurosky.social, a new European identity system launching this month:
https://www.eurosky.social/registerIt gives you a portable social identity powered by the #ATProtocol that works across apps like #Bluesky and lets you move your data and connections freely. It’s hosted under #European law and aims to reduce platform lock-in while expanding the #OpenSocialWeb. Sounds interesting. However, it does not work with #Mastodon, which is based on #ActivityPub.
@FabMusacchio We'll see when it really gets going and how the architecture will be constructed.
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Just came across eurosky.social, a new European identity system launching this month:
https://www.eurosky.social/registerIt gives you a portable social identity powered by the #ATProtocol that works across apps like #Bluesky and lets you move your data and connections freely. It’s hosted under #European law and aims to reduce platform lock-in while expanding the #OpenSocialWeb. Sounds interesting. However, it does not work with #Mastodon, which is based on #ActivityPub.
@FabMusacchio the page is very heavy on marketing BS but what they are announcing is completely trivial, it's just a PDS for Bluesky (there isn't much of an "ATProto ecosystem" of anything that people actually use beyond that).
This initiative has also been propped up by the American "Free Our Feeds" initiative famous for trying to get 30 million dollars in donations for setting up similar things and is a part of it so it's not exactly an European effort.
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@FabMusacchio the page is very heavy on marketing BS but what they are announcing is completely trivial, it's just a PDS for Bluesky (there isn't much of an "ATProto ecosystem" of anything that people actually use beyond that).
This initiative has also been propped up by the American "Free Our Feeds" initiative famous for trying to get 30 million dollars in donations for setting up similar things and is a part of it so it's not exactly an European effort.
@FabMusacchio Bluesky obviously is completely controlled by a US corporation that the US government can exert influence on and a EuroSky PDS will not do anything about that. This whole thing mostly seems like both a trojan horse to prevent Europeans from actually moving away from services vulnerable to US influence (maybe not intentionally but certainly in practice) and a grift aimed at getting EU taxpayer funds by marketing this non-solution to EU governments.
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@FabMusacchio Bluesky obviously is completely controlled by a US corporation that the US government can exert influence on and a EuroSky PDS will not do anything about that. This whole thing mostly seems like both a trojan horse to prevent Europeans from actually moving away from services vulnerable to US influence (maybe not intentionally but certainly in practice) and a grift aimed at getting EU taxpayer funds by marketing this non-solution to EU governments.
@ikuturso That’s a useful warning! Thanks for your research, I didn’t know this before. And this is exactly why #Mastodon and #ActivityPub matter, as it is structurally federated and independent by design.
Thanks for sharing.
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