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Michael Foster

@michael.eurosky.social
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Co-founder @newsmast.bsky.social. Discovering things, paths, people, ideas. Driving change through the social web. “A secret new internet you may not have heard of, a paradise to which we may all yet escape.” newsmastfoundation.org

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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
Yes! We’re excited to be working together :)
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Paul Fuxjäger @cypherhippie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
‘The loop closes when the people who spoke can see what their words changed’ This reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutog... Comprehensibility Manageability Meaningfulness When we comprehend how to improve what is dear to our hearts, and when we have the capacity to keep going, stuff happens.
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Salutogenesis - Wikipedia
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 02/08/2026
Excited to see where you take this. Good luck with the move, it’s a lot ❤️
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Tim Chambers @timothychambers.net · 24/07/2026
"The Next Information War Is Already Here" - check out this article I co-wrote with @willrobinson1776.bsky.social ... we work to frame very big changes coming to the political digital landscape faster than most think. Up for any thoughts, notes, and appreciate all... substack.com/@willrobinso...
substack.com
The Next Information War Is Already Here
AI systems are consuming false, misleading, and manipulated content from across the internet - and increasingly presenting it as authoritative answers to millions of users.
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 16/07/2026
Very cool! Congrats!
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026
Lovely to share #DWebCamp with you ❤️🔥🏕️
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 12/07/2026
Well, good morning. Would you like to also look at some beautiful seaweed and think about knowledge? www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-s...
wrecka.ge
Holdfast 0: Situating
This post introduces the written version of some optimistic and constructive thinking on knowledge in networks that I’ve been wrestling with since the end of last year.
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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 07/07/2026
If you're heading to DWeb Camp this week, it shouldn't be hard to find @michael.eurosky.social just follow the neon glow 🙌 Or put on your brightest clothes and head over to his talk on Thursday at 12pm CET - "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web" 🕺
A graphic showing a man wearing glasses, Michael Foster, in a cut out neon style frame on a background of neon stars. 

Around the image, words read: D Web Camp. BLN. Newsmast Foundation. Michael Foster. 2026-08-09 12:00-12:30 CET. Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web.
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026
We’re all Belgian this morning :)
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samvie @samvie.eurosky.social · 07/07/2026
Tomorrow is travel day and opening of #Dwebcamp. Please come say hi, if you want to speak about European digital policy & advocacy, like #DMA #DSA #GDPR or about building alliances for digital commons. Please reach out if you have funding possibilities so we can change things in Europe and beyond!
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at:// DWeb Camp Berlin
DWeb Camp is happening this year July 8th - 12th in Alte Holle, about an hour and a half drive outside of Berlin, Germany. Yes, there's actual camping! Are you part of the atproto community or interested in learning more, and planning to attend? Let us know you're coming by RSVP'ing, and get involved in coordinating in the community forum. DWeb Camp has lots of unconference spaces and time, we can bring many of our beloved stickers, and share what we're building. Note as well that Local-First Conf https://www.localfirstconf.com/ is right after, and after THAT we're considering a July 15th one day hack session in Berlin Community Forum coordination https://discourse.atprotocol.community/t/coordinating-around-dweb-camp-local-first-conf-and-possible-atproto-hack-day/847
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026
🏕️
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026
This year DWeb is transporting itself from the Redwood forests of California to a former Stasi Camp in the woods an hour outside Berlin. There's a whole bunch of stuff going on, which you can follow online at #DWebCamp or check out as it goes live on the web dwebcamp.org
dwebcamp.org
DWeb Camp: Root Systems
We invite you to join us at DWeb Camp!
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026
@tommi.space has promised to wear his incredible neon pink Fediverse cape (much loved by @rude1.blacksky.team and @elenarossini.com ) and there's a free t-shirt for anyone who takes part 🥳If you're in camp, stop by the Social Web tent on Thursday at 12pm and check it out!
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026
👕 Thirty t-shirts with a top secret design. 🔊 A Bose S1 Pro+. 👩‍🎤 A Lily Allen track. 🐬 A TikTok meme. ⚫ And one black hole. Potentially more hazardous than the spray cans? Cont...
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 06/07/2026
Here's what's going in my bag (and what's not) as I pack for "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies" at #DWebCamp on Thursday: 🎨 Six cans of Day-Glo paint. Not allowed on the plane 😬 so fresh graffiti paint is shipping to Alte Holle. 📋 Three flipcharts. 📣 A pink Day-Glo megaphone. Cont...
Neon Day-Glo spray paint - four cansPink megaphone
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 28/06/2026
The first era of Blacksky was building community. The next era of Blacksky is building coalitions. Blacksky to the world and back. 🌍 @jdot.blacksky.team
Waag FutureLab, Commons Network, Blacksky group photo
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026
Gem! Right there alongside “community is the moat”
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 19/06/2026
Fox sex is SO loud :)
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 18/06/2026
The fediverse icon. ⁂
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026
💯- everyone was connecting.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 18/06/2026
Once you’ve built your community, Your community can build. All power to the people. ✊🏾
Rudy smiling and posing with Millie; one of the aunties and organizers of We The People NYC.Rudy, Relly Rebel and a neighborhood organizer chopping it up during We The People NYC distro
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Newsmast Foundation @newsmastfoundation.org · 18/06/2026
Businesses, governments, and citizens rely on American Big Tech social media. Can you afford to be held hostage by the whims of a US government in the information age? #EUSovereignty
An image of a mobile phone displaying a 'Social Media' folder. In it, app icons for Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and X can be seen. In the background, a U.S. flag can be seen.

Over the image, text reads: Newsmast Foundation. Escape American platforms.
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
Cool that this writing ends with a signature ✍️
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 17/06/2026
💯 “Because everyone knows that everyone knows that they are publicly committing to these ideas, the cost of acting together is meaningfully lowered…And getting there is the achievement, and the most important part of the declaration, more than the principles or any individual commitment.”
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Tim Fullerton - Host of the Find Out Podcast @timfullerton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Wow - we are less than 100 users away from 10,000 on Find Out Social. Can you help us break 10k? Reply in the comments and I’ll send you the info to join us!
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 12/06/2026
💯! No wonder Laurens finds it so disturbing. We have to stand up 🔥
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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 12/06/2026
new from me: on this week's riots in Belfast, Musk, and European states openly declining to defend their own sovereignty. What does it even mean to build digital sovereignty infrastructure when states themselves don't want to be sovereign? connectedplaces.online/reports/fr16...
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FR#166 – No Change
Many people in Europe see the open social web as a path to digital sovereignty. This week demonstrated a problem: the assumption that European governments actually want to be sovereign.
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026
Congratulations!!!!!
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026
Teams is the worst
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 09/06/2026
Thanks for your support! The website was done quite quickly, so we can take another look, but the text took months to negotiate, so will need to stay for the moment :)
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
Cool - see you there!
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
What a convergence of beautiful people 💕
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
This was a requested change, it’s not AI, nor an error. I guess the language used in the Atmosphere is evolving all the time?
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
Yes this was entirely written by humans, with much effort. And designed by our lead designer, with much skill, and some aesthetic input from me.
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
This is a big deal. Great to see everyone connecting in Amsterdam
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026
So great to see you, sorry you missed this :)
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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 08/06/2026
Porting the whole post over for the skyline bc it’s easy to misinterpret from the first half

Felix Hlatky
@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social
After individually meeting @rose.bsky.team in April and @seboslaw in May, it felt great to meet both again with @rude1.blacksky.team at #pubconf2026 This is still a competitive situation. Our protocols and the incentives they create matter. Our backgrounds influence what we build. Our financing models bind and enable us. But I felt all of us belonging to "Team Open" very strongly in Amsterdam. I am excited to see where this will bring us and what we can do together
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026
You could build bridges with that :)
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 07/06/2026
🗣️🗣️🗣️ THE OPEN SOCIAL WEB IS THE LONG GAME If we win, it'll be for the next generations. Sit with that thought, move accordingly.
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 07/06/2026
Many builders in the Open Social Web are discouraged by the lack of funding in the ecosystem, slow pace of feature development (e.g. private accounts), and “low” adoption relative to incumbents like Meta. In my keynote I emphasized multi-generational struggle & movement building. People who faced…
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026
Yes! Read and sign the declaration here: european.social
european.social
The European Social Stack — An open declaration
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Eurosky Sebastian @sebastian.eurosky.social · 07/06/2026
Vielen Dank @christianstoecker.de für die Erwähnung der „The European Social Stack Initiative“, an der ich mit @eurosky.social ebenfalls beteiligt bin.
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Meinung: Technologiestandards: Europas geheime Superkraft - Kolumne
Wer schon einmal an einer Ladebuchse verzweifelt ist, weiß: Der falsche Stecker kann einem den Tag ruinieren. Hier liegt aber auch eine Chance für Europa, seine Souveränität zu verteidigen.
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026
💕💯what a wonderful, inspiring event!
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Saskia @saskiakezia.com · 06/06/2026
Still can't quite believe this!!! Congrats to @sill.social and @blackskyweb.xyz for winning the Excellence Awards and to @anew.social, @dandelion.events, @stream.place, @leaflet.pub and Bonfire Networks for being recognised as Honourable Mentions. Let's keep pushing each other to build better!
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Sherif EA @sherif.mu.social · 05/06/2026
The European Social Stack declaration is a big step in bringing European players together - launched today thanks to the efforts of @michael.eurosky.social and Björn Staschen. Check it out and add join us european.social
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Eurosky Social @eurosky.social · 05/06/2026
Huge congratulations to the winners of the first ever Open Social Awards @newsmastfoundation.org @blackskyweb.xyz and @sill.social
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Michael Foster @michael.eurosky.social · 06/06/2026
And a pink cape too 💕
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Elena Rossini ⁂ @elenarossini.com · 06/06/2026
It was great meeting you Rudy! Congrats again about your powerful presentation on Blacksky and community building. It will stay with me for a long time.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 06/06/2026
Well, that was the first time I finished an open source / liberatory tech event by dancing to Dancing Queen. Into it - thank you to @newsmastfoundation.org for a great party.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 06/06/2026
Such a big deal. I was excited to be in the room - and what @newsmastfoundation.org, @blackskyweb.xyz, and @sill.social are doing really matters. These are all projects that solve real problems for real communities, aligned to the values of the open social web. Congratulations to all.
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