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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I think there are some pieces missing here. Hosting does scale down poorly, but it only scales poorly because of how we host. There *is* an increased cost and complexity to shutting down small sites. If we can change the way we host, make it easier to replicate, then there *is* an asymmetry. It […]

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Ik las net dit relevante pleidooi voor een sterkere onafhankelijke instantie die in Europa de regels voor techbedrijven moet handhaven. Het staat op een website die ik nog niet kende (Nexuseu) en die een initiatief is van denktank Open Markets Institute. Citaat over de timing: 'The EU’s […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

The illustration, even if in Dutch, and generated, says more than a 1000 words. Different community islands (all different mental health networks) choose to connect with each other and brdige to the wider Fediverse, but see the gate is closed on the right side […] [Original post on social.coop]

illustration showing various island in colour that are connected with each other. They have various mental health related names, like ADHD, youth, the borderline foundation, etc. There's a bridge to the fedeiverse island and the gate to a burning island on the right is up. On the left is a very big island city full of skyscrapers, and the gate to it is burning.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

In-depth article by Linux Magazine on the Fediverse with interviews with Ivan and Mayel from @Bonfire and @cwebber A good read to share - About the Open Science Network, the archipielago set-up and the Jacobin.de case (all Bonfire) - About the ActivityPub standard with federation between […]

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Sebastiaan Ammerlaan 🇳🇱 @bammerlaan.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

"Social media algorithms amplify right-wing content against young users’ preference" www.bi.team/press-releases/social-m… I finally re-found this study I read a few months ago, that deserves a lot more […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The Trump regime continues its battle against collective communication infra that is not under corporate control. Even after A/I dismantling they ordered the Dutch to seize a server in Amsterdam. Of course the NL police cooperated, completely unaware of the changed int'l relations. What about […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The central result is a “Wheel of Contributions”: Pledge → Contribution → Recognition → Participation. Partners commit, contribute, get recognised for what they bring, and gain a real voice in co-governance, with clearer partner roles and a dedicated participation space (working name: Co.Consul) […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Consul started in 2015 at Madrid City Council and is now used by 140+ cities and organisations. The question we worked on: how do you turn a widely used piece of #civictech into a true #commons, where more of the people who benefit also contribute and help steer? […] [Original post on social.coop]

Diagram of the Five Pillar model with quite a few (unreadable) details. The five pillars: in the centre 1) the shared resources (What) and community (Who), 2) Sharing knowledge, 3) Co-governance, 4) Co-production and 5) Mobilisation of resources, i,.e. diverse revenue strategies. Towards the outside of the circle encompassing the 5 pillars it says Social and ecological environment.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

This summer I had the pleasure of accompanying the Consul Democracy Foundation (CDF) team in a reflection on their governance and sustainability model. They’ve now published the story of that journey, and I’m honoured by how thoughtfully they’ve documented it […] [Original post on social.coop]

part of a diagram showing the five pillars for modelling commons sustainability. Not completely readable here through (see next toot)

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Excited for this workshop tomorrow at @CIM@bonfire.cim.warwick.ac.uk If you or anyone you know is in the area, whether in the University of Warwick's orbit or not, please come along to co-design the #OpenScienceNetwork, #Bonfire, and our #codesign method itself. bonfire.cim.warwick.ac.uk/po... […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

The launch of the DTF crowd fund platform will start on Oct 29th; if you happen to be in Barcelona, join us at MozFest at the 4D event: 4d.cat/en/conference

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

For people in search of an introduction to the Fediverse, I love @MishaVelthuis 's "landing post for people curious about the Fediverse" Ofc with great video's by @_elena and @tilvids with practical tips and a good framing of "tech is political" […]

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Laura Watts @laurawatts.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

4S is Solarpunk #ShortFilm Did you miss this at #4SToronto? Short film made for Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) 40th Anniversary celebrations. I was asked to make film set in 2076, looking back at 4S and Science & Technology Studies #STS and what they could become… […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The Norwegian Consumer Council strikes again. The Enshitificator now teams up with Death. They make life shorter. True partners in crime. #Enshittification #plannedobsolescence @DigitalCoup

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@MishaVelthuis good to travel to take another perspective on your home town. And even more if you travel back in time.

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Misha @mishavelthuis.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

New blog post on #Technofeudalism, #web3 and the #Fediverse. "Like in the French and Russian revolutions, passionate advocates of market capitalism and stubborn defenders of the commons once again find themselves on the same side of an anti-feudal struggle. Yet although they share an enemy in […]

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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

What if next year's #FediDay became a Democratic Social Media Day? We need fewer conversations exclusively among Fediverse enthusiasts, and more conversations among people who care about democracy and are actively seeking alternatives to Big Tech social media. Let's bring together journalists […]

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Jeremiah Lee @jeremiahlee.com · 07/10/2026

I joined DemocraticTech.Fund as an annual member after learning about it at @fediforum. I also added to my annual donation to @iftas. The challenges with operating community servers are real, hard, and need funding. democratictech.fund/?ref=activitypub #FediForum

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Pool money for democratic tech!

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

It was such a great experience to join the open source conference in luxembourg! Huge thanks to the amazing @_elena@mastodon.social and @Gina@fosstodon.org for organising and curating the Decentralised Technologies for Digital Sovereignty track, It brought together lots of the people and […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Today prof Mariana Mazzucato presents her latest book, The Common Good Economy, at CIDOB in Barcelona. She proposes to anchor common good objectives in the missions of pubçic services and the economy in general. The government should regulate re-distrivutive […] [Original post on social.coop]

Picture of prof Mariana Mazzucato on stage in the plenary room at CIDOB in Barcelona. The room is packed.

Picture of Mariana Mazzucato's latest book, The Common Good Economy.

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields — for two new data centers in the northern part of Finland without concluding the necessary environmental assessments. Despite the assessments still being in progress, the tech giant’s contractors […]

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

De #NRC, one of the main newspapers in the #Netherlands, set up its own Mastodon server! Journalist @MarloesdeKoning played a key role in this development. We believe ournalists and academics have a special responsibility to start building the alternative networks of the future. Step by step […]

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Henri Horn @henrihorn.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The new #Mispel law in Germany provides clear pathway for home batteries including bidirectional EV chargers to feed into the grid and avoid double grid charges. The existing EVs on German roads already have enough battery capacity to cover the entire national electricity demand for two hours […]

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

De afgelopen weken liet ik me afleiden van het opzetten van de server doordat ik dit verhaal wilde maken, over de vraag of de VS de .nl-domeinen uit zouden kunnen zetten […]

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Daniel Supernault @dansup.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Loops also blocks AI code contributions. I should have made this policy much sooner, my apologies ❤️ github.com/joinloops/loops-server#a…

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

"...we can’t have a set-up that is “technically decentralized” but “socially centralized”. The #CoopCloud recipes are a lot easier to maintain, which makes it easier to share the moderation among ourselves.". New post: opentech-auc.org/posts/2026-09-27-c… With a shoutout to […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

"Solidarity Funding for Technology in the Commons" Coming Tuesday the Bread.coop solidarity fund has a webinar with us to explain the launch of Democratic Tech crowd fund platform and explore possible relationships between us. -> Tuesday 29th September -> 17h […] [Original post on social.coop]

Banner image inviting for the Bread.coop webinar with Free Knowledge Institute and Democratic Tech Fund

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Audun @audunmb.todon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

_AI is dead labor, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks._ The "AI is theft" argument is weak. It assumes that copyright is property that can be stolen, like in "you wouldn't steal a car". And it claims […] [Original post on todon.nl]

AI-generated image of Karl Marx, added for irony, but mostly to get your attention to this wall of text. (Yeah, I know it's horrible, but somehow someone on "philosophes.org" felt that this was better than an actual photo of him.)

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Leander Lindahl @leanderlindahl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

🔍 Switch to a European search engine: 👉️️ Qwantt 👉️️ Ecosia 👉️️ Startpage What European search engine are you using? Maybe it should be on the list? #Marginalia? #Mojeek? #digitalSovereignty #DSCAdvice 🔗 folkdata.se/en/digital-sovereignty

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🌍🌾 ViaCampesinaEU ⁂ :mastodon: @viacampesinaeu.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

#LaViaCampesina ✊🏽🚜👨🏽‍🌾 Campaign Against Agrotoxics and For Life : viacampesina.org/en/campaigns/campa… 💢 It is possible to produce food without agrotoxics ! 🌱 Peasant Agroecology is the way to protect our health, soil, air, water […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#LaViaCampesina Campaign Against Agrotoxics and For Life
https://viacampesina.org/en/campaigns/campaign-against-agrotoxics

💢 It is possible to produce food
without agrotoxics !
🌱 Peasant Agroecology is the way to protect our health, soil, air, water and biodiversity !
➡️ https://viacampesina.org/en/2019/12/it-is-possible-to-produce-food-without-agrotoxics-peasant-agroecology-is-the-way

#AgroecologyNurturesLIFE #AgrotoxicsKILL #StopAgrotoxics #StopToxicTrade

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Reg @reggiehere.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: social.coop/@Wtebbens/1173143018409… “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system” [Meta]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

This theatre work in Barcelona is being banned by Meta for covering Virginia Wolf and/or "social topics". How clear evidence of the censoring of social issues, by the #MassiveManipulationMachine […]

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OpenTech(AUC) @opentech-auc.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

We have some exciting news for the upcoming weeks. New projects, new success! For today we want to start with the official launch of the new design of our website: opentech-auc.org Come and have a look! #fediwall

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OpenTech(AUC) — There are alternatives. Let's explore them together.

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"Waarom boeren ontkennen dat hun koeien het klimaat veranderen" Minder koeien, minder methaan, daar moeten we aan: hier komt Thomas Oudman @decorrespondent met een duidelijk verhaal op weg naar een gedeelde werkelijkheid […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

A serious threat to our sovereignty: many communication infrastructures use Let's Encrypt for their SSL certificates. It's the open source way to have free certificates and secure communications. But what if the Trump regime puts your organisation on the list of the undesired, i.e. sanctions you […]

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Renewed Resistance @renewedresistance.channel.org · 12/06/2025

🔥 Welcome to Renewed Resistance — News & Organizing Hub This is a Newsmast-powered group account focused on peaceful organizing against Trump and Trumpism across the U.S. We’ve recently refocused from the former Kamala Harris News Group to support broader, pro-democracy action. How it works: ✅ […]

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Wouter Tebbens ⁂ @wtebbens.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

The EU's Blocking Statute should protect EU citizens for lawful operation when "third countries" - such as the US - apply sanctions to them. Example 1: ICC judges being sanctioned by the Trump regime. They cannot be served by US companies (most dominant digital platforms + all credit cards) […]

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Bonfire @bonfire.bonfire.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Shared infrastructure is how the #Fediverse can grow without recreating enshittified platform silos. We’re excited to share that Bonfire is working with Mastodon on two critical areas of Fediverse infrastructure: remote media storage and automated content detection. Built around open Fediverse […]

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padeluun ⁂ @padeluun.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Peter Thiel bekommt am 24. September den Axel-Springer-Award. Drei Tage vorher schaut der Chaos Computer Club Berlin genauer hin, wer da eigentlich geehrt wird. Thiel ist kein bloß exzentrischer Tech-Milliardär. Er ist ein antidemokratischer Vordenker der radikalen Rechten: Er erklärte Freiheit […]

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

New Mexico flipped from fossil fuels to renewables in five years. In July 2021 its largest utility drew 83% of its power from coal and gas; this July, renewables supplied 62%. Solar carries the scorching days, batteries release stored sun through the evening, and wind picks up after dark. The […]

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 26/08/2026

"The Nerd Reich" by @gilduran.com Urgent and highly readable. Even if you know things are bad with tech billionaires they're worse than you think. Read it, get it for your friends who still don't understand what's going on and happily post on X. Great Christmas gift.

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Oproep: kunnen jullie voorbeelden met me delen van interessante vormgeving op servers op #ActivityPub? Wat zijn de mogelijkheden om een NRC-server een beetje mooi te maken? Wat kan wel en wat kan niet? #NRCServer

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Tobias Eigen @tobias.social.tobiaseigen.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@ente Ente gut, alles gut! 🦆 Just learned about this wonderful #selfhost #opensource app suite! 1) securely store and share photos, 2) same for important docs, and 3) 2fa authenticator. Super keen to try it out! #digitallysovereign #digitalsovereignty #rabt

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Het is tijd om wat concreter te worden met mijn plannen voor een @nrc_nl Nu vraag ik me af: vinden jullie het minder autonoom / soeverein en dus 'goed' als een toekomstige NRC-server niet op eigen hardware draait, maar in een (verantwoord en lokaal) datacenter? Daar neig ik nu namelijk wel naar […]

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Björn Staschen @bjoernsta.eimsbuettel.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

Wir wollen mit Dir das Internet retten! Nach einem heissen Aufbauhalbjahr sucht #SaveSocial einen TEAMPLAYER für die digitale Rebellion: eine*n Kommunikations- & Community-Expert*in. Alles weitere findest Du in unserer Stellenausschreibung […]

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