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Ivan Sigal

@ivansigal.eurosky.social
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@modalfoundation.bsky.social and @freeourfeeds.com, also information, media and journalism, rights, arts. Former ED @globalvoices.org

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Sherif EA @sherif.mu.social · 22h
Friday surprise drop: you can now change your .eurosky.social username into a .mu.social username Go to eurosky.social/account, login, go to Account -> Username -> Use a default username
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Thrilled to be working with this crew of brilliant and open-hearted researchers, scientists, thinkers and tinkerers to build social tech in the service of knowledge communities.
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh, boy. Brilliant. "And the constituent awoke, from the warm, dark world of its mother’s body, into the long dream, which issued a Social Security number."
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Modal Foundation @modalfoundation.eurosky.social · 29/09/2026
The PLC organization is live. Yay! A major step toward an independent PLC directory, for the Atmosphere. blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227
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First steps of the PLC organization
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mu @mu.social · 03/09/2026
‼️‼️📢📢⌛⌛ 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻 ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ ⌛⌛⌛⌛⌛⌛⌛⌛⌛⌛ testflight.apple.com/join/1nkFWXw1 5️⃣0️⃣ 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
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Join the mu.social beta
Available on iOS
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
But don’t worry, every platform that has to do age verification will do it in a really robust, privacy-protective way.
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Modal Foundation @modalfoundation.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
And we're thrilled to have Roomy as part of the expanding Modal family! More soon on how all this plays out; we're just at the beginning of the journey.
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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 07/08/2026
@eurosky.social also doesn’t have 1/29th the budget of the @wsocial.eu elites. We are members of our own community. We are building what people want and need. We don’t speak bullshit. cc @robin.berjon.com @ivansigal.eurosky.social @sebastian.eurosky.social @sherif.eurosky.social #Atmosphere 🌀
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
📣📣 New feature in Portal - Your Activity! You can now see your activity at portal.eurosky.tech. First release includes likes, follows, posts & reposts + blog posts (standard.site). Many more improvements and functionality to come. For feature requests and feedback see userinput.app#/s/did:plc:o...
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 23/07/2026
24k people on @eurosky.social now
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026
Love this feature; who says social media can't properly prioritize trustworthy information sources?
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 20/07/2026
With @mu.social verification program, we want verification to be available to everyone, not a privileged few. With our trusted verifiers we reached 90% as many verified accounts as Bluesky. Now we want to expand - orgs and networks can apply to be trusted verifiers: hello.mu.social/verification...
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Apply to become a trusted verifier · mu
Apply for your organization, professional group or network to become a trusted verifier on mu and verify the accounts of your community.
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Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @occrp.org · 17/07/2026
European Password Manager Shares Origins and Updates with State-Certified Russian Firm www.occrp.org/en/investiga...
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European Password Manager Shares Origins and Updates with State-Certified Russian Firm
Passwork, a Spain-based password manager used by European government agencies and universities, shares technological ties with a Russian counterpart — an arrangement that experts say poses a state-level...
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mu @mu.social · 16/07/2026
My parents at @eurosky.social recently acquired the trademark for U-Haul (and variants) to help protect the ecosystem. Here’s more about what that means.
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026
Want to know how to improve online conversations, reduce sensationalism and toxicity? So do we!
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Brandi Geurkink @geurkink.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Our Coalition sued Marco Rubio, and the court is agreeing with us. Today, Judge Boasberg stayed a Trump admin policy to deny revoke the visas of technology researchers, fact-checkers and trust and safety workers. knightcolumbia.org/content/fede...
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Federal Court Suspends Trump Immigration Policy Targeting Technology Researchers
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 13/07/2026
📣 All Eurosky users! Portal has a brand new applications page for apps you can use with your account across blogging, events, website building, development, professional networking and more. Check it out: portal.eurosky.tech
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Erlend Sogge Heggen @erlend.sh · 08/07/2026
I have high hopes for @mu.social as a proving ground for democratic social media, given ample support from the atmosphere community. With the help of civilized-discourse expert @jonathanwarden.com we can have Community Notes on atproto, starting with mu.
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Mu for democracy
designing for social cohesion
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mu @mu.social · 07/07/2026
We launched 26 days ago — remember that? It still feels like it was barely yesterday 😘 Today we hit 100,000 monthly active users! ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND OF YOU. And we don't even have native apps yet. We love you! Thank you! This is just the beginning of something mu.
Pedro Pascal says: I should totally get a mu-let.
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 07/07/2026
A message to all Eurosky members and friends We need your help - can you support Eurosky with a monthly or one-off donation? If you can, please visit whydonate.com/fundraising/...
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Title: A message to all Eurosky members and friends

We need your help - can you support Eurosky with a monthly or one-off donation?

We are building Eurosky on the principle that it is possible to build better social tech that also prioritize people’s interests over corporate greed. Since the beginning of the year we’ve taken big steps towards our mission of building independent infrastructure and experience for social media in Europe. 

In April we launched a fundraiser to help accelerate our roadmap, in particular:

- Building a European microblogging app backend, to support European apps
- Growing our PDS capacity
- Supporting up to 100k users

Since then, we have raised nearly €15,000 Euros that have directly contributed to:

- Upgrading our PDS servers, which are now used by more than 22,000 people, up from around 10,000 when we launched the fundraiser - with plenty of room to grow.
- Deploying a high availability Eurosky relay in Europe serving Atmosphere apps, so apps can access Atmosphere data easily from a European source.
- Deploying a PLC mirror in Europe serving Atmosphere apps, to ensure that people’s identities also have a European server.
- Kicked off building the microblogging backend (“app view”) with a deployment planned for the end of July.
- Developed and launched mu, our microblogging application with wildly cool features, hitting 100k active users in its first month, to rave reviews.

Whilst all of this costs more than the 15k we raised, it would not have been possible without it.
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 07/07/2026
I read the new EU Court ruling on algorithms and social platforms so you don't have to. Turns out to be the most consequential thing a European court has said about recommendation algorithms, and also it just breaks when you apply it to the atmosphere connectedplaces.online/the-algorith...
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The Algorithm, Singular
A new European ruling on algorithmic amplification determines if an operator controls how content spreads on a platform. But applying it to open social networks turns out to be a problem.
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Belgium Atmosphere @belgium-atmosphe.re · 06/07/2026
New Verification rule: to be fully verified on mu.social by us as Belgian, you'll need to repost this image!
A referee shows a red card to Balogun (US soccer player) who is also holding a small card with Donald Trump's face, in reference to Trump calling FIFA's president to postpone Balogun's red card beyond the game against Belgian Red Devils.
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 04/07/2026
If you’re with Eurosky you can now manage your email, password, username as well as delete or deactivate you account at eurosky.social/account
Screenshot of an Atmosphere Account home screen for ‘Eurosky Social’ (@eurosky.social), showing a white circular logo with a star/sparkle icon. Below it, text reads ‘Your Atmosphere account is hosted by Eurosky PDS’ with a ‘What does this mean?’ link. Four menu rows follow with blue icons: Account (Manage your account), Devices (Manage your active sessions), Apps (Manage applications that have access to your account), and About (What is an Atmosphere Account?).Screenshot of a Eurosky Account settings screen titled ‘Account,’ showing a back arrow and rows for Email address, Username, and Password (each with a chevron), followed by ‘Deactivate account’ and ‘Delete account’ in pink/red text.
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026
Wir haben mir @eurosky.social einen ForYou Feed analog zu dem von @spacecowboy17.bsky.social entwickelt. Wäre super, wenn ihr den mal ausprobieren könntet und uns Rückmeldung gebt, wie er euch gefällt. bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ooensn4mr5…
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B. Prendergast @renderg.host · 02/07/2026
As requested by @liabelle.me here are all the unique features of @mu.social which I will keep up to date as we progress
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Unique Mu.social features
The unique features of Mu.Social which I will keep up to date.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The “Censorship Industrial Complex” was a hoax perpetuated by Matt Taibbi, Jim Jordan, Michael Shellenberger, Mike Benz, & Musk. The election deniers & their puppet media came for us bc they didn’t like our speech. They were mad ab our election work. Facts inconvenienced them. I’m v proud of that.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA
MONROE DIVISION
JILL HINES ET AL — CASE NO. 3:23-CV-00571
VERSUS — JUDGE TERRY A. DOUGHTY
ALEX STAMOS ET AL — MAG. JUDGE KAYLA D. MCCLUSKY
MEMORANDUM RULING
Before the Court is a Renewed Joint Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter and Personal Jurisdiction [Doc. No. 191] filed by Defendants, Alex Stamos, Renée DiResta, the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, the Leland Stanford Junior University, Kate Starbird, Graphika, Camille François, the Atlantic Council, and Graham Brookie (collectively, "Defendants"). Plaintiffs, Jill Hines ("Hines") and Jim Hoft ("Hoft") (collectively, "Plaintiffs"), filed an Opposition [Doc. No. 207]. Defendants then filed a Reply [Doc. No. 209].
For the reasons set forth, Defendants' Motion is GRANTED.
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Software Stewardship Lab @stewardshiplab.org · 01/07/2026
We're grateful to be helping @mu.social and @eurosky.social as a Trusted Verifier of the Open Source community! ✨️ If you have feedback on the verification process, let us know.
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Verification · mu
The Trusted Verifier Program on mu: a democratic, plural approach to verification. Verification tells you an account is who they claim to be.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Tech leaders, scientists, policymakers, & advocates often call transparency a foundation of public trust and fair, effective regulation. Yesterday, @thecoalition.bsky.social took an important step to ensure that transparency laws actually work #FAccT2026 independenttechresearch.org/citr-members...
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CITR Members Intervene in DSA Court Case to uphold Data Access for Public Interest Research - Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Members of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research today requested leave to intervene in X v. European Commission. X’s Digital Services Act violations have prevented researchers from using p...
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 25/06/2026
I scored 567 in moo jump on mu! Can you beat it? hello.mu.social/play/567
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I scored 567 in moo jump
Can you beat my score on mu?
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mu @mu.social · 22/06/2026
World Cup? We got you covered. cc @brookie.blog
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Sherif EA @sherif.mu.social · 21/06/2026
As W Social is closed off unless you give them your passport and face scan, I made a little feed that shows you the trending posts there. So you can get the experience from the comfort of Bluesky, mu, or whichever open alternative you’re using. mu.social/profile/did:...
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Sherif EA @sherif.mu.social · 21/06/2026
I’m all for communities having gated spaces on this network but if your positioning is as an alternative to closed platforms like X and Facebook, you shouldn’t be gated @wsocial.eu. You’re either open or you’re not, this half open, half closed thing isn’t good enough for a general purpose app.
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J. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Just realized it's the 10th anniversary of Stuart Geiger & Aaron Halfaker's analysis of what happens when autonomous agents collide in online social environments with real stakes- itself a response to other work. (in case folks think this area is completely new) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Operationalizing Conflict and Cooperation between Automated Software Agents in Wikipedia: A Replication and Expansion of 'Even Good Bots Fight': Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction: V...
This paper replicates, extends, and refutes conclusions made in a study published in PLoS ONE ("Even Good Bots Fight"), which claimed to identify substantial levels of conflict between automated softw...
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mu @mu.social · 20/06/2026
mu is pink but it can also be blue and orange.
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026
This. Makes my day. My year, actually.
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Daphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is... insane. The EU spent untold hours of human labor and political effort to create the DSA's intricate system of rules for platforms. And the CJEU is just smashing it, like a toddler.
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
Reading view on Mu! Muview? Do we really need to have the character limit debate when we can generate a good reading experience with threaded posts? Maybe...but in the meantime, we have muview.
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 17/06/2026
Why the hell have @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu migrated from an open-source PDS host (Bluesky) to a closed-source for-profit one (W Social)? It makes no sense, and is also completely ignorant of @eurosky.social, which is based in the EU, open source, and not for profit:
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W Social, Public Institutions and the Theater of European Digital Sovereignty
European public institutions are betting big on digital sovereignty and open source software. And yet they recently moved their Bluesky accounts to W Social, a private, for profit network owned by Swe...
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 16/06/2026
People often ask about @eurosky.social, so I wrote a little thread to explain some of the ideas.
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Nicolò Ribaudo @nicr.dev · 16/06/2026
Announcing "bsky-to-mu", a browser extension that automatically redirects bsky.app links to @mu.social. Firefox: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... Chrome: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/bsky-... GitHub: github.com/nicolo-ribau...
Screenshot of the mu.social homepage, with on top Bluesky and mu.social logos, with an arrow pointing from one to the other.
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mu @mu.social · 15/06/2026
It’s Monday and we’re brining you two little improvements to start the week. - a copy username button in a user’s profile menu, and - a companion cat to keep you company on mu 🐈🐈‍⬛😺
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 14/06/2026
Severe thunderstorm watch now in place thru 11 pm. Main timeframe in and around Beltway looks like 6-10 pm. Dangerous lightning, scattered wind gusts to around 70 mph, and isolated hail or a brief tornado all possible. Updates @ capitalweather.com & Capital Weather app.
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 14/06/2026
Jetstream is a utility for developers - it turns the messy, raw stream of everything happening on the network into a clean, easy-to-read feed that apps can tap into without heavy lifting.
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 14/06/2026
Make that 4/4 - how about a bonus release to end the week? Jetstream now available at jetstream1.eurosky.network What it is 👇
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 13/06/2026
Some social networks treat users like products. At mu users are people. “We will never sell Your Content or any other personal data we hold about you. We will never profile you for advertising purposes.” That’s our pledge for mu.social, it’s in our terms and privacy policy and it won’t change.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 12/06/2026
Expect to see more of this before it changes. The old European elite has figured out that there's money to be made repeating the same business strategies that have got us where we are but with a 🇪🇺 sticker on top. It'll take a bit of a time for people to notice that we also need new thinking.
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026
This is excellent! Internet Archive is exactly the kind of org that we need on Eurosky. @eurosky.social @modalfoundation.eurosky.social
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Sherif EA @sherif.mu.social · 09/06/2026
Everything we're able to do at @eurosky.social is by working with some of the most talented people in the Atmosphere 💙💙 @thisismissem.social @pds.dad @flo-bit.dev @renderg.host @bad-example.com @brookie.blog
Eurosky website 'Contributors' section showing headshots of six people, Emelia Smith, Bailey Townsend, Florian Killius, Barry Prendergast, fig, and Brooke Higgins, with links to their profiles.
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Ivan Sigal @ivansigal.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026
Love this thread. Simple idea for what verification should be: you are who you claim to be. Not a popularity contest, not subject to black box decisions of platform owners, not handed out only to the famous and well off.
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