Ivan Sigal
@ivansigal.bsky.social
@freeourfeeds.com interim director, also thinking, strategy, making, and information, media and journalism, rights, arts. Former ED @globalvoices.org
Another timely summary plus analysis on state of open social by @laurenshof.online. If this topic is your jam, this newsletter is for you.
this weeks ATmosphere/bluesky news, with how Eurosky helped show that the atproto ecosystem is bigger than just Bluesky, Bluesky doing dev grants, and how Gander is thinking about creating cultural sovereignty with their platform
ATmosphere Report - #144
Bluesky grants, on Eurosky conference, and how Gander is thinking about cultural sovereignty
leaflet.connectedplaces.online
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Another timely summary plus analysis on state of open social by @laurenshof.online. If this topic is your jam, this newsletter is for you.
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🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency.
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future
The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech ...
openfuture.eu
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency.
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
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We're excited to announce that Bluesky PBC included us in a round of grants to help foster the ATmosphere! Their generous grant will support infrastructure costs for Bridgy Fed and Bounce.
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
November 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
We're excited to announce that Bluesky PBC included us in a round of grants to help foster the ATmosphere! Their generous grant will support infrastructure costs for Bridgy Fed and Bounce.
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
We're so lucky to be included among so many phenomenal builders 🙏🏼
Here are a few we're excited about:
1/🧵
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Catherine Tait, Philipp Schild, @amlung.bsky.social, @sandervdwaal.bsky.social and @ivansigal.bsky.social discussed how interoperable infrastructure can reinvent media’s relationship with audiences, break down platform monopolies and preserve journalistic independence. vimeo.com/1140417552?s...
Panel: Owning the Pipeline - European Media in Interoperable Distribution
Owning the Pipeline - European Media in Interoperable Distribution with Philipp Schild (Funk); Catherine Tait (New_Public); Robert Amlung (ZDF); Sander van der Waal…
vimeo.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Catherine Tait, Philipp Schild, @amlung.bsky.social, @sandervdwaal.bsky.social and @ivansigal.bsky.social discussed how interoperable infrastructure can reinvent media’s relationship with audiences, break down platform monopolies and preserve journalistic independence. vimeo.com/1140417552?s...
Very happy to have been able to contribute to this event, and thanks to @taylorowen.bsky.social and colleagues for producing a stellar event.
What is a democratic technology and what does that actually mean? This was the guiding question that @ivansigal.bsky.social posed to Professor @ethanz.bsky.social and Mark Surman in their panel, Building the Next Generation of Democratic Tech, at #AttnGovernOrBeGoverned. 🧵
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Very happy to have been able to contribute to this event, and thanks to @taylorowen.bsky.social and colleagues for producing a stellar event.
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Eurosky Live in Berlin was this week (great to see so many cool people!), and I wrote about building open social networking protocols is about more than just building an alternative to Big Tech's platform power
ATmosphere Report 143 - Eurosky Live
on protocol architecture and power
connectedplaces.leaflet.pub
November 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Eurosky Live in Berlin was this week (great to see so many cool people!), and I wrote about building open social networking protocols is about more than just building an alternative to Big Tech's platform power
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Love that by extension (via screenshot) @laurenshof.online, @sherifea.com, @anke.domscheit-berg.de, @robin.berjon.com, @bnewbold.net and Colin Robinson (those who know know) made it into the German news :)
Great article (!) about the @eurosky.social conference with mentions of:
Great article (!) about the @eurosky.social conference with mentions of:
Eine Gruppe von Entwicklerinnen und Entwicklern plant, eine europäische Infrastruktur für soziale Netzwerke zu schaffen. Das Ziel: ein offenes System, das von keinem Tech-Konzern abhängig ist – und weniger schlechte Laune macht. @seabass.bsky.social hat mir mehr erzählt:
So wollen europäische Entwickler Social Media neu erfinden
Eine Gruppe von IT-Experten plant, eine eigene Infrastruktur für europäische soziale Netzwerke zu erschaffen. Das Ziel: ein offenes System, das von keinem Tech-Konzern abhängig ist – und weniger schle...
www.rnd.de
November 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Love that by extension (via screenshot) @laurenshof.online, @sherifea.com, @anke.domscheit-berg.de, @robin.berjon.com, @bnewbold.net and Colin Robinson (those who know know) made it into the German news :)
Great article (!) about the @eurosky.social conference with mentions of:
Great article (!) about the @eurosky.social conference with mentions of:
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What do we have here?
@bnewbold.net and @robin.berjon.com talking all things AT Protocol. #EuroskyLive
@bnewbold.net and @robin.berjon.com talking all things AT Protocol. #EuroskyLive
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What do we have here?
@bnewbold.net and @robin.berjon.com talking all things AT Protocol. #EuroskyLive
@bnewbold.net and @robin.berjon.com talking all things AT Protocol. #EuroskyLive
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Live now: all about the future of of media #EuroskyLive
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Live now: all about the future of of media #EuroskyLive
And @alexandrageese.bsky.social is on fire today. Frustration from yesterday's tech sovereignty summit? #EuroskyLive
"What's the real reason for the lack of enforcement? Fear of the Americans. (…) They need to fight for their own democracy." — @alexandrageese.bsky.social #EuroskyLive
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
And @alexandrageese.bsky.social is on fire today. Frustration from yesterday's tech sovereignty summit? #EuroskyLive
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We're in Berlin this week with @eurosky.social and many others for #EuroskyLive, a conference on digital sovereignty, media independence, startup opportunities, and the future of social technology being built and governed in Europe. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...
Free Our Feeds - Update #5, November 2025
It’s the season for travel. Many of our custodians have traversed North America and Europe the past month, making stops at Attention: Govern or be governed, The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, S...
free-our-feeds.ghost.io
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
We're in Berlin this week with @eurosky.social and many others for #EuroskyLive, a conference on digital sovereignty, media independence, startup opportunities, and the future of social technology being built and governed in Europe. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...
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We've kicked off #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Livestream the event here: stream.place/eurosky.soci...
@eurosky.social's livestream on stream.place
Eurosky Live from Berlin
stream.place
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
We've kicked off #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Livestream the event here: stream.place/eurosky.soci...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Very excited to be supporting @eurosky.social live event in Berlin next week. Open social tech futures in Europe, and how to do it, with a great crew of thinkers, creatives and technologists.
Our agenda for Eurosky Live is now... live! We're very excited about it. Check it out here www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live
We have a few spaces left, sign up here luma.com/knk1342n
If you can't be there in person you can join the live stream, sign up here smokesignal.events/did:plc:ooen...
We have a few spaces left, sign up here luma.com/knk1342n
If you can't be there in person you can join the live stream, sign up here smokesignal.events/did:plc:ooen...
Eurosky Live - 19 November, Berlin — eurosky
Our first Eurosky Live conference will take place in Berlin on 19 November 2025. The conference will explore the open social web and how Eurosky’s digital building blocks could power 'Trusted European...
www.eurosky.social
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Very excited to be supporting @eurosky.social live event in Berlin next week. Open social tech futures in Europe, and how to do it, with a great crew of thinkers, creatives and technologists.
A BBC study shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A BBC study shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news outlets’ homepages have plummeted in recent months — Nieman Lab reporters @andrewdeck.bsky.social and @hanaatameez.bsky.social found they declined by 87% starting in May of this year. They decided to find out why. buff.ly/rhtRGcr
The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects
Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.
www.niemanlab.org
October 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news outlets’ homepages have plummeted in recent months — Nieman Lab reporters @andrewdeck.bsky.social and @hanaatameez.bsky.social found they declined by 87% starting in May of this year. They decided to find out why. buff.ly/rhtRGcr
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Happy to share latest update from #freeourfeeds campaign, covering highlights from the past few months and outlining upcoming events and appearances. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...
Free Our Feeds - Update #4, October 2025
After a brief slowdown for the endless holidays of northern summer, we at Free Our Feeds have been preparing for the next stage of our initiative: writing, speaking, scheming, and planning. Top of lin...
free-our-feeds.ghost.io
October 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Happy to share latest update from #freeourfeeds campaign, covering highlights from the past few months and outlining upcoming events and appearances. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...
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Join #freeourfeeds and @eurosky.social on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin as European leaders, policymakers, developers, and investors explore what's already being built and chart the path forward for Europe’s open social web. We are so pleased that @alexandrageese.bsky.social will be joining us!
We're delighted to announce @alexandrageese.bsky.social, Member of the European Parliament for the Greens/EFA Group, as a speaker for Eurosky Live in Berlin this November.
#EuroskyLive #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech
www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live
#EuroskyLive #DigitalSovereignty #EuropeanTech
www.eurosky.social/eurosky-live
October 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Join #freeourfeeds and @eurosky.social on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin as European leaders, policymakers, developers, and investors explore what's already being built and chart the path forward for Europe’s open social web. We are so pleased that @alexandrageese.bsky.social will be joining us!
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Since 2011, Heike led Rhineland-Palatinate's digital transformation as Government CIO, focusing on responsive & barrier-free public services. A former member of the State Parliament, she brings a crucial perspective on how governments can support the infrastructure needed for Europe's digital future
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Since 2011, Heike led Rhineland-Palatinate's digital transformation as Government CIO, focusing on responsive & barrier-free public services. A former member of the State Parliament, she brings a crucial perspective on how governments can support the infrastructure needed for Europe's digital future
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Join us on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin for Eurosky Live. This is for anyone building, funding, or shaping Europe's digital future.
Register
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Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025 · Luma
Showcase • Keynotes • Panels
Join founders, developers, media, policy-makers, and investors for a full-day public programme exploring the European open social…
luma.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Join us on Wednesday, 19 November in Berlin for Eurosky Live. This is for anyone building, funding, or shaping Europe's digital future.
Register
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Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.
Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Bluesky's Patent Non-Aggression Pledge - Bluesky
Bluesky develops open protocols. We're taking a short and simple patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everybody feels confident building on them.
bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Bluesky runs on open protocols with open source code. Today we’re taking an additional step and making a patent non-aggression pledge to ensure that everyone can build confidently on our work.
Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Learn more and read the pledge in our blog post: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
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Own Your Algorithm == Ow Ya! Lovely to see the new G in the wild.
We're excited to share the new Graze! Completely redesigned look, same powerful tooling. Check it out at graze.social ✨
Bluesky Custom Feeds - Built By You
Design, deploy, and grow custom feeds of any complexity on Bluesky with Graze.social.
graze.social
September 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Own Your Algorithm == Ow Ya! Lovely to see the new G in the wild.
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Very pleased to see this #Indiesky project put #freeourfeeds funds to good use, supporting Northsky in their community building efforts. Congratulations @transrights.northsky.social and @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca
It’s time to launch our first #Indiesky grant!
Today we’re announcing a $5000 grant to @transrights.northsky.social for their account data migration tools and the migration campaign for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community they serve.
atprotocol.dev/the-first-in...
Today we’re announcing a $5000 grant to @transrights.northsky.social for their account data migration tools and the migration campaign for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community they serve.
atprotocol.dev/the-first-in...
The First Indiesky Grant: Northsky
Today we’re announcing our first Indiesky grant, a $5000 USD contribution to Northsky, their PDS migration tools and the migration efforts for their community.
We started the ATProtocol Community Fun...
atprotocol.dev
September 25, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Very pleased to see this #Indiesky project put #freeourfeeds funds to good use, supporting Northsky in their community building efforts. Congratulations @transrights.northsky.social and @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca
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"The true free speech absolutists in the tech industry aren’t the ones making the most noise. They’re the ones building platforms that are untouchable. Whether those solutions operate on blockchain or some other technology, it’s clearly the future of free speech." cc @ivansigal.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"The true free speech absolutists in the tech industry aren’t the ones making the most noise. They’re the ones building platforms that are untouchable. Whether those solutions operate on blockchain or some other technology, it’s clearly the future of free speech." cc @ivansigal.bsky.social
Not just a good argument, and on a vital issue, but damn funny. I wish more policy writing made me chuckle.
The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money.
What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.
But there's more… 🧵
What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia.
But there's more… 🧵
How Wikipedia Can Save the Internet With Advertising | TechPolicy.Press
Robin Berjon explores how principled advertising on Wikipedia could fund a democratic digital future.
www.techpolicy.press
September 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Not just a good argument, and on a vital issue, but damn funny. I wish more policy writing made me chuckle.