Nostr notes by Robin Berjon

Kick ass team I tell you! RE: ...

2026-04-16T14:20:17Z

Kick ass team I tell you!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rnpkyqnmsw4ipey6eotbdnnf/post/3mjmkm34plk22
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note1yan…umrn

I don't think I've made a post about it yet, but I've been helping out the Eurosky team behind the scenes a bit for the past couple of months. Mostly on the PDS side of things, like removing the need for invite codes and other odds & ends.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ooensn4mr5mhznzypvxelfa3/post/3mjmeurn3t22m
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I lean towards thinking that community-centric governance is the ...

2026-04-09T15:43:36Z

I lean towards thinking that community-centric governance is the Fediverse's primary strength and that trying to behave like a global social media is not just in tension with that, as Laurens explains brilliantly, but can only undermine the result.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd/post/3mj2z54zink2x

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note12t4…cnkm

new from me: on recent discourse and drama on Mastodon. the software gives people the tools to create community via instances, with a wide plurality of cultures and communities. But what people want is a singular culture/community on the federation layer

[connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...](https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/ )

[FR#158 – What is Mastodon for?](https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr158-what-is-mastodon-for/ )

This thread is so long that it surfaces all the bugs in ...

2026-04-06T13:19:42Z

This thread is so long that it surfaces all the bugs in Bluesky's thread handling — but if you read nothing else this week, read this.

Everything is social epistemology.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2whlowi5jjjqrdrrj4lxh2lx/post/3mitbqzpvhk2x

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note1xuf…gdpj

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: ...

2026-04-02T15:27:51Z

The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: [eurosky.tech](https://eurosky.tech/ ), portal to the Atmosphere.

I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings:

1. one account
2. that works with a bunch of apps, and
3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.

[Eurosky - Building a thriving ...](https://eurosky.tech/ )

What may be the most heartening part of #AtmosphereConf, besides ...

2026-03-28T21:19:00Z

What may be the most heartening part of #AtmosphereConf, besides the community, is that it's a *technical* conference at which people present on politics, authoritarianism, epistemic challenges (in the opening keynote!).

Because, for technologists, *that's* the job.

@npub1qq2…0u7e keynoting to rapt attention. ...

2026-03-28T16:36:32Z

Erin Kissane (npub1qq2…0u7e) keynoting to rapt attention.
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Has anyone considered making a DOI registrar on AT? This is (as ...

2026-03-27T17:20:49Z

Has anyone considered making a DOI registrar on AT? This is (as far as I can make out) a valid DOI (using 99999 to stand in for whatever number would be assigned to that registrar):

doi:10.99999/did:plc:izttpdp3l6vss5crelt5kcux/cx.vmx.matadisco/3mi2kj7s5jc23

We could have DOIs for the Atmosphere!

The Atmosphere — It's Where It's AT. RE: ...

2026-02-27T18:56:03Z

The Atmosphere — It's Where It's AT.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mdjhvva6vlrswsj26cftjttd/post/3mfucav4ris2x

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note12zx…j54m

this week's atmosphere and fediverse news, with now three approaches to private data, and a whole bunch of atproto project updates and news

[connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...](https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr155-where-does-community-live-updates/ )
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Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL ...

2026-02-10T13:14:59Z

Hot off the internets — there's a brand new kid on the DASL block: Web Tiles!

It's still early days, some key features are missing, and there are some rough edges, but you can publish tiles to AT and play with the idea!
[webtil.es](https://webtil.es/ )

[Web Tiles](https://webtil.es/ )

It's also deliberately disingenuous because we did explain ...

2026-01-21T17:33:53Z

It's also *deliberately* disingenuous because we did explain AT and Eurosky at great length to their primary funder.

If I were launching a social media about truth and verification I'd, like, try not to lie but that's just me.

Anyway, some of us have work to do.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2zmxikig2sj7gqaezl5gntae/post/3mcx3uyrwuk24

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note1m9y…82t0

ATProto/ActivityPub rivalry notwithstanding, omfg if I were Mastodon today I'd be so angry at this

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ofrbh253gwicbkc5nktqepol/post/3mcwmznjhvs2y
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We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday ...

2026-01-15T14:16:04Z

We're having an AT Proto gathering at FOSDEM, on the Friday right before, at 17h00. Come! It'll be nice and fun.
[luma.com/jj7nths0](https://luma.com/jj7nths0 )

[@proto @fosdem · Luma](https://luma.com/jj7nths0 )

@npub1vth…k7hr & @npub1ayw…kf99 are you two at the beach ...

2025-12-19T11:06:45Z

Eurosky Sebastian (npub1vth…k7hr) & Laurens (npub1ayw…kf99) are you two at the beach together?
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2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be ...

2025-12-09T20:31:46Z

2025 is coming to end and some people who claim not to be fascists are still associating themselves with fascist outlets like X.

I claim, perhaps charitably, that it's because they don't understand how the internet works. Either way, this needs to change.
[berjon.com/fascintern-m...](https://berjon.com/fascintern-media/ )

[Fascintern Media](https://berjon.com/fascintern-media/ )

When you have neither spine nor vision you end up enforcing your ...

2025-12-05T11:46:42Z

When you have neither spine nor vision you end up enforcing your regulation in ways that achieve nothing but still give bullies and fascists a hook to play victim and kick you with at the same time.
[ec.europa.eu/commission/p...](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934 )

[Commission fines X €120 millio...](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934 )

At what other event can you get both policymakers talking about ...

2025-11-19T10:36:35Z

At what other event can you get both policymakers talking about democracy and Tangled (npub19y6…yh78) talking about hosting repositories on the same track? Only at #EuroskyLive!

Our communities need to work more closely together, we're making it happen.

Heike Raab at #EuroskyLive says "We need: 1. sustainable ...

2025-11-19T09:12:43Z

Heike Raab at #EuroskyLive says "We need:

1. sustainable financing of free and independent media
2. to protect communication spaces from manipulation
3. to reform media concentration law against concentration in social media.

Regulation isn't enough, we need our own European infrastructure."
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How clear does it need to be that Europe needs independent ...

2025-11-04T16:53:01Z

How clear does it need to be that Europe needs independent digital infrastructure before we actually take credible action? The need is as clear for cloud as it is for the rest of our critical digital systems.
[www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/aws-azure-outages-highlight-threat-us-cloud-dominance-poses-to-europe-by-robin-berjon-2025-11 )

[How Many More Cloud Scares Doe...](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/aws-azure-outages-highlight-threat-us-cloud-dominance-poses-to-europe-by-robin-berjon-2025-11 )

LOL, if I were a real person I wouldn't be using Teams, ...

2025-11-03T15:27:03Z

LOL, if I were a real person I wouldn't be using Teams, joke's on you Microsoft!
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We should be launching large-scale projects to save the ...

2025-08-10T08:15:19Z

We should be launching large-scale projects to save the biosphere. Instead rich idiots are putting all of our resources into propping up stochastic parrots.
[www.theguardian.com/environment/...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe )

[‘Half the tree of life’: ecolo...](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe )

"Just as the [EU] seeks to reduce its reliance on external ...

2025-07-23T14:57:28Z

"Just as the [EU] seeks to reduce its reliance on external providers for semiconductors, cloud computing, & AI, it must do the same for social media. (…) Their proprietary infrastructure (…) shapes our lives, from the news we see to the way we speak online."
[www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/e...](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-can-build-own-social-media-on-at-protocol-by-sebastian-vogelsang-2025-07 )

[Europe Can Build Its Own Socia...](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/europe-can-build-own-social-media-on-at-protocol-by-sebastian-vogelsang-2025-07 )

Overheard in the UK: "I like it when it's properly hot, ...

2025-07-12T14:48:53Z

Overheard in the UK: "I like it when it's properly hot, you know, 18 or 19, but when it gets into the high twenties I really can't take the heat anymore."

If you're into content addressing and archival use cases, ...

2025-06-03T13:18:45Z

If you're into content addressing and archival use cases, you're going to want to come to CID Congress 2.5: [lu.ma/78qjqo75](https://lu.ma/78qjqo75 )

[CID Congress 2.5 — Archival Ed...](https://lu.ma/78qjqo75 )

I've been playing with this Bluesky PDS backup tool from the ...

2025-05-29T17:44:09Z

I've been playing with this Bluesky PDS backup tool from the very fine folks at Storacha here and it was dead simple to set up: [bsky.storage](https://bsky.storage/ ).

[Bluesky Backups by Storacha](https://bsky.storage/ )