This JRC Policy brief "outlines the EU’s strategic imperative to assert digital sovereignty while remaining open to global collaboration".Defines EU digital sovereignty as "the EU’s capacity to exercise strategic independence in the digital domain—encompassing data governance, infrastructure control, and innovation... to reduce vulnerabilities in …

No, the article's not dead, but "the real question ... whether it remains the primary way people encounter journalism".If "Personalization is coming to journalism... who controls it", and what sort of journalism will it affect? Most news is not "high-end, high-quality investigations, analysis, and commentary", which will probably not be personalis…

Bluesky's "Find Friends ... makes it easy to find people you know on Bluesky... protects your privacy and keeps you in control", unlike other platforms' approach to contact import, which have resulted in "phone numbers have been leaked or brute-forced, sold to spammers, or used by platforms for dubious purposes". Key point: "It only works if both …

Laurens Hof, chronicler of all things open social web, uses Semble to curate interesting resources for his one-man media operation. And now he's built this one-page interface to all the stuff he's curating on Semble.But he's not getting that content from Semble - he's grabbing it from his own PDS, and combining it with links to where people are di…

A Guest Post from a couple of scientists from the Thomas Kuhn Foundation, created to "give science the means to see itself". They've created "a working system that can map how knowledge changes in real time... KGX3 detects and classifies the epistemic function of research papers... provide a complete understanding of what a paper does: confirm, st…

Laurens Hof's report from EuroskyLive looks at Robin Berjon's use of Elinor Ostrom's observation that "The properties that define the architecture of a protocol and those that define the rules in an institution are the same", and how this is illustrated by Bluesky's recent changes to their reporting system, which expands the "6 reporting options t…

"Composable moderation decentralizes rule-setting, reducing pressure on any single platform and limiting attempts to “work the refs... pressure a singular trust and safety team into making decisions that favor their side”.Gives a good summary of how "Composable moderation ... uses labels to describe issues with content or accounts, leaving individ…

Alexandra Geese on the EC's "first-ever non-compliance decision under the Digital Services Act against X ... a necessary first step in enforcing European digital regulation... [but] not sufficient to address the systemic risks posed by X... systematic amplification of certain political content and the systematic suppression of others" as part of "…

New features from Semble, focusing on "supporting non-linear discovery ... the fun comes when browsing Semble pages, collections, and profiles". In particular, there's "'Discover on Semble' will surface related cards based on your recent Semble activity... [and] sort cards based on the date added or by the number of accounts that have saved the sa…

Nekomimo "built cutebook, a tiny library that lets you add a guestbook to any website. Visitors sign in with their Bluesky account, leave a message, and that message gets stored in their own data repository. No database on your end. No user accounts to manage. Just two web components and a few lines of configuration" - and she explains how, and ho…