Newsletter as I head off to Berlin to talk about digital sovereignty, social media and ATprotocol.

"A journalist gets blocked by Bluesky, but her Bluesky posts can still be seen via Blacksky. This apparent contradiction goes to the heart of resilient social media, where businesses must support their users to stay in business"

"Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA) delivered a letter to social media leaders demanding the immediate removal of posts and accounts that celebrated the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is a good example of why social media conversations must NOT be concentrated in one legal jurisdiction (particularly, let's face it, Trump's US).The letter was sent to …

What does sovereignty look like in the social media space? Some thoughts before heading to Berlin to help launch eurosky.social at a side event around the Franco-German Summit on European Digital Sovereignty.

"What does it look like to design a system [the internet] for survivability?" This different question - not design for efficiency, or profitability - led "to different answers, and breakthroughs that made the internet we have today".Rather than protect something, "the r-selected response ... LOCKSS stands for "Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe," ...…