iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nextcloud @nextcloud.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Introducing Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring: Built together, designed for the future 🚀 What’s new: 💫 Refined design and performance ✏️ Collabora & Euro-Office 💌 Groupware updates 📈 Gantt chart in Nextcloud Deck 🧩 Pexip & Matrix integration 💪 Empowering developer platform nextcloud.com/blog/nextclo...

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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 05/06/2026

$Thank you. Hello from Sweden. Let me start with something I did last Friday. I moved my own Bluesky account to a Swedish provider, hosted in Finland. Every single follower came with me. Nothing broke. *It just works\!* Because on an open protocol, we take our community with us; it doesn't belong to the host. That, to me, is the heart of it. In a democracy, no single company should own the public square. When one company owns the room where we talk, the conversation gets *prematurely optimised* for engagement and capture, not for the public good. And a captive audience cannot hold power to account. The open social web changes the incentive: it gives people a credible exit. If we can leave and take our followers with us, the platform has to *earn* our trust instead of locking us in. Exit is what keeps voice honest. As we heard in the conversation earlier, there is a cost: The hard work of interoperability. But that is the *civic muscle* we must build together. It is a governance challenge worth having, because the prize is a democracy that isn't one big room shouting, but many small rooms that can still hear each other. Let me conclude with one image. Our data is _soil_, never oil. Treat it like oil, and it is all extraction and concentration. Treat it like soil, and our community travels with us, and grows where we plant it. That is how we make the digital public square actually public. And that is how we free the future — together. Thank you.$

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

So it's streaming now: the #Nextcloud Hub release! Find links on our launch page - continuously being updated. The release blog is also live and coverage from press is streaming in. nextcloud.com/special-even... My take 👇

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Nextcloud Special Event Winter 2026 edition

Be the first to experience the new must-watch Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter launch keynote, press conference and businesses-oriented key updates.

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Nextcloud @nextcloud.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

By popular demand! 🔥 We've set up a PeerTube channel where you can watch the global release of Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter. 📅 18 Feb, 2 PM (CET) 📍 Online global premiere peertube.nextcloud.com/c/nextcloud/...

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Nextcloud

Nextcloud Hub is the industry-leading, fully open source, on-premises content collaboration platform. Teams access, share, and edit their documents, chat and participate in video calls, and manage ...

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Ryan Macbeth makes the case for the European Commission to stop US and Chinese social media platforms from operating unsupervised in Europe. #privacy #security #digitalsovereignty #autonomy youtu.be/ywxENdhYoXw?...

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China's Feedback Loop Just Got Cut Off

YouTube video by Ryan McBeth

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OS-SCi.com @os-sci.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Het boek "Freedom First" van onze CEO Ir. Erik Mols is uit. Direct bestelbaar bij de uitgever, of via de bekende kanalen. In het boek staat een verzameling van artikelen, geschreven in de afgelopen 1 1/2 jaar. www.bravenewbooks.nl/site/userwebsi…

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

#DigitalSovereignty in Europe isn't looking good. But the digital workplace is a bright spot! Hundreds of thousands of #Nextcloud seats are being rolled out every month. A few examples in countries leading the pack 👇

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It seems the digital resilience strategy of the Commission is the same as it was for its energy strategy before 2022: dig until the walls fall in on themselves and you're forced to act. www.euractiv.com/news/commiss...

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Commission's cloud operations vulnerable to US sanctions | Euractiv

Just 1% of Commission services run on France-based OVHcloud’s public cloud

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Turns out PayPal and Honey scam not only customers but also businesses. Then again what else to expect from PayPal than exactly that? youtu.be/wwB3FmbcC88?...

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Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

I guess we should also abolish the United States, Russia china. Return sovereignty to the individual states! And then abolish all and return sovereignty to the cities.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

… and it can do a LOT more - Nextcloud Files can replace Google Drive but Nextcloud Hub can replace pretty much all of Google Workspace.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Should Europe, the USA and China build their own software, on their own? Big fat NO! Promoting #DigitalSovereignty does not mean hiding behind national borders! #OpenSource is a global movement, collaboration working together for the future. It should stay that way. fossforce.com/2025/09/if-o...

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If Open Source Stops Being Global, It Stops Being Open - FOSS Force

Europe wants to buy European, America wants to deregulate the world, China hacks the commons. But code knows no borders... unless we let it.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Austria's armed forces moved to LibreOffice for the right reasons: "We are not doing this to save money" but "so that the Armed Forces (...) can continue to (...) work" You don't save money with open source. You gain agency and control. www.heise.de/en/news/Aust...

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Austria's armed forces switch to LibreOffice

The Austrian Armed Forces have been preparing for the switch to LibreOffice for a long time. Other LibreOffice users will also benefit from this.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

You know that Windows 10 is end of life soon? If you are still stuck with a Windows 10 laptop, you can upgrade it to Linux! I'm joining a wonderful team at #KDE #AKADEMY to help you in a #EndOf10 installation party. Bring your laptop, we do the rest! endof10.org/events/

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Upcoming Events

Here is a list of events where you can get help with Linux. You can also look for places that provide help more regularly. Please note that the information here is submitted by the organizers themselv...

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Dit is echt van de zotte - net als de tweede kamer it kennis keihard nodig heeft… ibestuur.nl/artikel/anal...

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Analyse: Waarom Kamerleden met veel IT-kennis politieke zelfmoord plegen - iBestuur

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Worked on a #Nextcloud app dev workshop reminded me of amazing tutorials on nextcloud.com/developer If you want to build a dashboard widget, Smart Picker or a complete app, you just copy-paste your way to a functional start!

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Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials

These app development tutorials will help you easily write new Nextcloud applications, extend existing features or integrate other software.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It is insane that the European Commission is using #Signal to communicate while instituting #chatcontrol to take away the #privacy of citizens! End-to-end #e2ee encryption and disappearing messages have no place in public administration. www.ftm.eu/articles/von...

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Von der Leyen sets messages on auto-delete

The European Commission has previously said it didn’t automatically delete messages.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Kudos to @danb again for your work on IsItReallyFOSS. You inspired me to attempt to explain that there is more to #FOSS than just a license. Policymakers should take note! Also thanks to all other contributors in your repo, the discussions are super informative! fossforce.com/2025/08/is-i...

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Is It Really Open Source? How to Tell if a Project Walks the Walk - FOSS Force

Not all open source is created equal, argues open source advocate, Nextcloud co-founder, and FOSS Force guest writer Jos Poortvliet.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

This is the reality of European hashtag#DigitalSovereignty by @computerweekly.bsky.social "Right now, anyone who is not Microsoft has a very hard time getting government business, which is not helpful" www.computerweekly.com/news/3666261...

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Dutch cloud pioneers face the hard limits of digital sovereignty | Computer Weekly

The Netherlands' ambitious talk of digital independence meets the unforgiving economics of global cloud dominance

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

There is more to #opensource than just the license and the IsItReallyFOSS website does an amazing job showing that in practice. If you're interested in #Sustainable #FOSS projects, check out my piece on @fossforce.bsky.social and share it with people who should know! fossforce.com/2025/08/is-i...

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Is It Really Open Source? How to Tell if a Project Walks the Walk - FOSS Force

Not all open source is created equal, argues open source advocate, Nextcloud co-founder, and FOSS Force guest writer Jos Poortvliet.

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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

"For decades wireless companies have collected customer movement and location data , then sold it to a list of random dipshits without bothering to inform customers ": DC Appeals Court Shoots Down T-Mobile Claim That Selling Your Location Data Without Consent Is Perfectly Legal

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DC Appeals Court Shoots Down T-Mobile Claim That Selling Your Location Data Without Consent Is Perfectly Legal

In a rare win for U.S. consumer privacy, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled unanimously against T-Mobile and its subsidiary Sprint, upholding (for now) a $92 mil…

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

A new #Nextcloud release is coming in a bit over a month, live from our yearly conference in Berlin! Join us, either at the conference, or watching the live launch! Also, new naming scheme... nextcloud.com/blog/introdu...

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Introducing our upcoming release: "Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn" - Nextcloud

Join us online for the Nextcloud Hub release "Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn" on September 27, 2025. Discover how we came to think of this name!

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Saw a Dutch TV item about the concept of "enshittification" from Cory Doctorow (follow his writing on @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy )- it is translated quite well. Triggered me to think of an interesting article by Paul Krugman (on his substack) where he generalized the concept to all business. 👇

screenshot of Youtube Thumbnail of Dutch TV item about Cory Doctorow's enshittification subject

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

When moving away from Windows, I tried BeOS. Great OS, main thing missing was software. It's a sad victim of Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior. And yes, that statement was proven in court, MS had to pay out. Years after Be went bankrupt of course... Price of doing "business".

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Exactly that. There are some serious additional risks with cross-border services. If your business relies on them to get everything done, it's perhaps time to do a renewed risk assessment. Promises and past performance mean little these days. #selfhosting #digitalsovereignty #resilience

Linkedin post by Jyotiraditya Sahoo:
When you said "foreign-owned platforms can pull the plug without warning"-that hit home. We saw a SaaS downtime wipe out a client's ops for 48 hours, despite active contracts. How do you convince businesses to invest in local hosting before a crisis forces the conversation?

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Last week, we launched our Digital Sovereignty Index. Yeah, marketingy name, but I think it's cool. We tracked the use of self-hosted digital workplace tools (from #Jitsi to #openproject ) and compared it between countries. 👇

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Digital Sovereignty Index

Discover the Digital Sovereignty Index (DSI): a global snapshot of visible, self-hosted infrastructure. Is your country digitally autonomous.

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Christine Hall @brideoflinux.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Enhances tablet and multi-monitor support, updates brightness handling, and fixes notification quirks: KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Desktop Environment Released

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KDE Plasma 6.3.6 Desktop Environment Released

KDE Plasma 6.3.6 enhances tablet and multi-monitor support, updates brightness handling, and fixes notification quirks.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Microsoft: we have a European "digitally sovereign" cloud! Also Microsoft: to save a few pennies we let chinese devs manage the US Defense Department systems, a few underpaid US citizens 'oversee' it so it's fine 🔥 @ec.europa.eu And you trust that? www.propublica.org/article/micr...

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A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the Defense Department to Chinese Hackers

The Pentagon bans foreign citizens from accessing highly sensitive data, but Microsoft bypasses this by using engineers in China and elsewhere to remotely instruct American “escorts” who may lack expe...

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Don't forget: all complex software has #security issues. Even if it's written by a huge tech giant. #OpenSource has, on average, less security holes. But for the most critical data, keeping it on-premises behind your firewall and perhaps even fully air gapped is the way to go.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

So, let's talk about fufu for a minute. I don't think it is just a food. Seriously, there's something more going on. I think this starchy goodness was invented with a deeper purpose - good or bad I don't know yet. If you don't know fufu - polenta could have been a trial. Or second attempt. 🧵

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

"no matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else" You might know the saying, and it is fundamental to #OpenSource success. Did you know it doesn't *JUST* mean that there are a ton of smart people outside your company? Thread 🪡

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Contribute to Nextcloud server or apps

Nextcloud is an open source content collaboration project and we invite you to contribute and help improve Nextcloud server or apps

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

For those who don't know the site yet: isitreallyfoss.com This is a GREAT resource to check the #opensource values of the project you consider using or contributing to! Esp companies & gov't often fail to recognize how important open and collaborative development is for long term sustainability.

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Is it really foss?

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Oh, yes. We should absolutely all pay more imports from Brazil because Trump feels such brotherhood for coup plotters and other criminals like him.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Internet controversy in 2015: Oh no, I did something wrong and people are mad at me on the internet. My career is over!! Internet controversy in 2025: Excellent, my carefully crafted outrage bait has landed. My career is taking off!!

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

European citizens are very unhappy about the weak spines their politicians and business leaders show, and I can't blame them. We should enforce our own laws, protect our values and not give in to bullying. #digitalsovereignty #privacy nextcloud.com/blog/enforce...

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Enforce the law: why we need the DMA to be applied without fear or delay - Nextcloud

Europe’s Digital Markets Act is a breakthrough, but only if enforced. Here’s why delay empowers Big Tech and threatens digital sovereignty.

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

@berthubert.bsky.social continues his work on a plan to compete with Big Tech. I think some are already working towards parts of this and it's mandatory reading for technical policy makers. They can explain it to their political overlords! #eurostack #digitalsovereignty berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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European Cloud Modules - Bert Hubert

Advanced cloud services are based on good hardware, decent software, and surrounding infrastructure that combines these both into solid solutions that can be provided as a business activity. Europe is...

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Jos Poortvliet @jospoortvliet.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

My main gripe with AI is the creepyness. Please don't act so human, ugh. And worse, I think it's really a risk - non-techies trust the environment-destroying copyright violation machines* way too much. fossforce.com/2025/06/did-... * credit to @theabigailthorn.bsky.social and yes I paraphrased

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Did Gemini CLI Drop Acid Last Night? - FOSS Force

Our morning after report on how Google's new open source Gemini CLI started acting as if it were on mind altering drugs.

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WHAT TO FIX @whattofix.tech · 20/06/2025

[🚨 Exclusive] Our latest investigation finds that Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. may have violated EU sanctions and channeled money to RT, Sputnik and other EU-sanctioned entities. You read that right: Facebook *pays* some content publishers. Read full report → www.whattofix.tech/publications... /🧵

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Coba Weel @weel.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

So much of queer liberation is about demanding things that everyone needs, but we get less of: free speech, free association, bodily autonomy, equal access to various things… Like, yes, there’s also gendered social norms to break down, but for a lot of things you don’t even need to go there.

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