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Europe's social media path dilemma

Europe has the opportunity to decide the next social media layer in its own terms. Yet, the choice is whether to build the "European X" or the "EU's Insta". Instead, it is to pick the sunny road of open & interoperable systems, or to repeat the Silicon Valley dangerous path of winner-take-all model.

Microsoft's ICC email blockade

The first "digital red flag" for the European tech autonomy

Why Europe needs its own social layer

And why we have to be very careful with how "European sovereignty" is understood

A European perspective on Attie (Bluesky's AI project)

There's a conversation happening in the Bluesky community right now. It is not going particularly well. Attie is Bluesky's standalone AI assistant that builds custom feeds for you using natural language. Globally, it was not a warm welcome. From a European perspective, we should think about it very strategically.

We start with a repost (sort of)

LeafPlaza will publish articles from time to time. We though of using Ghost (awesome self-host option) but the main problem we had was the comments - we want them on the ATP. Leaflet solves it?