#digitalautonomy — Public Fediverse posts

"It’s entirely possible to run a reliable, capable, professional digital stack mostly from European infrastructure"

For those interested, here's an interesting & rather useful blog post 👉🏻 https://monokai.com/articles/how-i-moved-my-digital-stack-to-europe

"Digital sovereignty isn’t about paranoia. It’s about being conscious about your infrastructure, where you decide who holds your data, who can reach it, and what happens when politics shift" 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

#SovereignByDesign #DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty

To stay connected and be visible in #student life we are (still) on #instagram.

But the longer we stay, the harder it becomes to defend that choice.
It clashes with what we stand for as a #library: trustworthy information, #OpenScience, #DigitalAutonomy & student wellbeing.

We want to explore alternatives and open up the conversation about what responsible (online) #communication with students could and should look like.

Read our story and share your thoughts:
https://www.rug.nl/library/open-access/blog/a-university-library-on-instagram-we-want-to-leave-but-then-what

RE: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/116543008512013283

This is a great collection of position papers, interviews and articles on how #Dutch #HigherEducation organisations are preparing and taking steps towards more #DigitalAutonomy.

🚀 https://communities.surf.nl/publieke-waarden/artikel/voor-dag-en-dau-22x-we-gaan-dit-samen-doen

Read this blog by @sourav666 on @itsfoss about the use of #Forgejo by the Dutch central #government:

https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/

"The platform is a self-hosted Forgejo instance, running on Dutch government infrastructure... It's free for all government organizations..."

"... this initiative is still in the pilot phase, with the rollout being kept deliberately gradual."

#overheid #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalAutonomy #GitForge #Netherlands #FOSS #OpenSource #Git

Habt ihr das von der Europäischen Souveränität auch gehört? So Souverän wie ein Dackel...
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000319503/grenzpartnerschaft-eu-bietet-usa-noch-mehr-daten-in-noch-mehr-anwendungsfaellen?ref=seite1_zonekur #Europa #digitalesouveränität #DigitalAutonomy

shout out to @DigitalCoup ocial.org @dcc #ResistTechMonopolies @displayeurope @IndieHosters #DoeiDag #DIdays #DigitalAutonomy #SovereignTech #CooperativeCloud @MishaVelthuis @commonsnetwork

In the context of our work at Better Tech Club a "normie" is a person for whom a computer is a mean to some other end. Meanwhile for us nerds, computers are very interesting on their own. This difference often leads to misunderstandings. But for a meaningful political change, all decent and intelligent people need to work together. It may not be immediately obvious, but many normies are in fact intelligent and decent. So let's try to understand each other better.

#digitalAutonomy #foss #europe

Time for the next #DIday the first Sunday of every month. See the German events here: https://events.diday.org/ (Mobilizon)

Meanwhile you can check the switch recipes: https://di.day/en/digital-switch-recipes and find yourself a decent challenge for the coming month.

If you help people to join the fedi, here's Everything to join the #Fediverse nicely listed and linked, https://linksta.cc/@jointhefediverse

#DigitalAutonomy #VamonosJuntas #CollectiveAction

Official marketing copy alert...

"Avoiding vendor lock-in has become a much bigger driver of open source adoption, and this New Stack article digs into what the 2026 State of Open Source Report reveals about how teams are balancing independence with maintenance, security, and compliance demands.

Check it out: https://thenewstack.io/open-source-digital-autonomy/

#opensource #digitalautonomy "

Grade Rechnung von Strato bekommen: heute vor zehn Jahren habe ich diese Domain registriert und hoste seitdem selbst. 💪

Hänge arbeitsbedingt natürlich immer noch am Windowstropf. 🙄

#selfhosting #digitalautonomy

Dutch civil servant fired because he spoke up against the takeover of #Solvinity that provides the #DigiD service. DigiD is the central system that is used in the #Netherlands to log in into official government and related services.

Solvinity, the company hosting DigiD will probably be taken over by Kyndryl, a US company. Putting the login functionality of the Dutch official digital services under US #jurisdiction.

#DigitalSovereignty #DigitalAutonomy

In Dutch:
https://www.techzine.nl/nieuws/privacy-compliance/577495/cpo-logius-ontslagen-via-trouw-na-rel-rond-digid-beheerder-solvinity/

Oh, turns out that the European "sovereign" payment platform intended to replace Paypal, Wero, uses AWS 🤡 🤡 🤡

#DigitalIndependence #digitalsovereignty #DigitalAutonomy #EuropeanTormentNexus #BigTech #EU #Wero

New blog post: Hello #DigitalAutonomy

I never really liked the term Digital Sovereignty for the way I have built my digital presence. Sovereignty is about nations. Big, bureaucratic, faceless organisations. It feels heavy. Burdensome. Static.

(Replies to this post will show up as comments on my blog)

https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/04/DigitalAutonomy/

#DigitalSovereignty #SelfHost

Building communities of practice, bottom-up. The Open Source Way. To solve problems in those groups and share the lessons learned, help to adapt them for other groups in different situations, building a digital commons that can be used by anyone, everywhere. That's my way of thinking and #DigitalAutonomy expresses that in far better ways than #DigitalSovereignty ever could.

Is all for today :) Please share your thoughts and let's have a productive discussion!

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I never really liked the term Digital Sovereignty. Sovereignty is about nations. Big, bureaucratic, faceless organisations. It feels heavy. Burdensome. Static.

I want to express how I aim to be in control of my digital presence instead. Free to do things the way I want them to be. Sharing all of it. Helping others, based on agreed values and principles. And I think I have a better term for that, a term that feels much more natural

**Digital Autonomy**

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#Digitalsovereignty #DigitalAutonomy

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaVirkkunen/116419051671140999

> The European Commission is strengthening the European Union's digital sovereignty by awarding a tender that allows EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies (Union entities) to procure sovereign cloud services for up to €180 million over 6 years.
>
> ... and finally Proximus, which partners with S3NS (a joint venture of Thales and *Google Cloud*), Clarence and Mistral

🤔

#eu #digitalautonomy

📺 Reclaiming digital autonomy at Dutch universities

With: Professor Albert Meijer ( @utrechtuniversity)
By: [email protected]

#autonomy #DigitalAutonomy #University

https://video.edu.nl/w/f1XjnLUBqT2jNypHpXPCUq

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116408720976324749

Top comment on hackernews on this seems appropriate:

> The slogan "Age Verification Solution for all Europeans" is a lie.
>
>The honest slogan is "Age Verification Solution for Europeans Who Use Mobile Devices that are Controlled by US Corporations and by Extension US Government Which Can Revoke Your Use of the Solution with No Recourse".

#eu #ageverification #digitalautonomy

RE: https://btfree.social/pub/objects/01KMJWVEHMVAK1WNMX1J8ZC83X

At 14.30 CEST, I'll talk to @[email protected] at
@[email protected].

I'll share some insights from my work at @Bibliothecaris, our motivation to join the #Fediverse, the relevance of #OpenScience and open communication, current developments in #DigitalAutonomy and probably a lot more :)

Looking forward to it!

https://stream.firesidefedi.live/federation/user/ozoned

Look at this:

https://code.overheid.nl/

The beginning of a #GitForge by the Dutch government (overheid) based on #Forgejo.

Very good that the Dutch #government takes the first steps to become independent regarding their Git repositories.

Read why this important in a blog with a recommendation for a Git forge that I wrote a while ago (in Dutch):

https://developer.overheid.nl/blog/2025/11/11/git-forge-overheid

#Git #DigitalSovereignty #DigitalAutonomy #FOSS #opensource #Netherlands #overheid

It should come as no surprise that Beam is based on Matrix.

France and Germany have set a good example, France has TChap, Germany uses BwMessenger and TI-Messenger, all based on Matrix.

Let's hope all other a European countries and the EU itself will follow these examples, fast...

https://beam.belgium.be/en/

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#DigitalAutonomy #BigTech #SecureCommunication #Matrix

Belgium is the next European country to take communication between public workers into its own hands. No more WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, it's Beam from now on.

*Beam has been developed by the state-backed company Belgian Secure Communications (BSC). It will eventually be used by around 750,000 public sector employees and military personnel.*

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2026/03/18/new-app-provides-secure-messaging-service-for-public-sector-empl/

#DigitalAutonomy #BigTech #SecureCommunication #Matrix

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Amúgy azt jól veszem ki, hogy az #EU és egyes tagállamai nagyon-nagyon, de nagyon lassan ugyan, de kezdenek ráébredni arra, hogy #tech és #IT tekintetben sem a legjobb dolog külsősöktől függeni?

Értem alatta, hogy amit eddig olvasok, hogy az #osztrák hadsereg kicseréli a #Microsoft #Office csomagják nyílt forráskódúra. Ha jól emlékszem #LibreOffice lesz a választás.
Jelenleg olvasom, hogy #Franciaország is cserél #Linux operációs rendszerre.

De, több forrásból is olvasni, hogy váltanak kisebb-nagyobb léptékben nyílt forrásra / saját fejlesztésre.

Sajnos, nagyon lassan, de csak eljön akkor egyszer a nyílt forráskód ideje, vagy legalábbis a saját EU-s szoftverek ideje itt a környezetemben.

Remélem, hogy még megélem, és nem a gyerekeim fognak ebből profitálni.

Én már évek óta Linuxot és nyílt alternatívákat használok, amiből csak tudok, és abszolút nem bántam meg. Sőt!

Már nagyon régóta mondom, hogy a függés a külső hatalmaktól, legyen az akár #nyugat, vagy #kelet mindig probléma. Mindig kell saját #alternatíva, amire bármikor támaszkodni lehet.

Nekem is jelenleg nem kellett más, mint egy megfelelő #sávszél, hogy a lehető legtöbb dologgal kitörjek a "fogságból".

Már azon is erősen gondolkodom, hogy az e-mailezést is saját kézbe veszem inkább és azt is saját magamnak fogom hostolni...

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #TechIndependence #SelfHosting #LinuxLife #FOSS #OpenStandards #DataSovereignty #Decentralization #Privacy #Infosec #EUtech #PublicSectorIT #SovereignTech #FreeSoftware #CloudIndependence #DigitalAutonomy #MS #MSOffice #MicrosoftOffice

That's how it can be! The @universityofgroningen officially promotes #Fediverse presence of its staff and students. My staff profile includes the Mastodon button [1]. The University Library @Bibliothecaris promotes #OpenScience and #DigitalAutonomy through #Mastodon and #PeerTube @bibliothecaris_channel [2].

[1] https://www.rug.nl/staff/g.s.leppert/
[2] https://www.rug.nl/library/fediverse?lang=en

#UniversityOfGroningen #Universities #Academia #DigitalSovereignty #DIDit #diday #digitalindependence #digitalindependenceday #did

All major economies are trying to move away from Visa and Mastercard.

https://nebula.tv/videos/techaltar-every-major-economy-is-trying-to-ditch-visa-mastercard

Compared to other parts of the world, however, Europe is progressing slowly. Hopefully, we can soon launch the European Credit Card and Circuit for debit card payments to serve as an alternative to Visa, Mastercard, and Maestro.

@arjenlubach

Video ⤵️

#Wero #WeroPay #Wero_Pay #iDeal #BoycottVisa #BoycottMaestro #BoycottUSA #BoycottMastercard #EPI #DebitCard #EuropeanDebitCard #EuropeanBanks #werowallet #Maestro #MaestroCircuit #DigitalAutonomy #EuropeanDigitalAutonomy #EUDI #EUDIwallet

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

Special Guest: @[email protected]

#communications #MassMedia #library #academia #OpenScience #DigitalAutonomy #politics #PopCulture Working at the University of Groningen Library @Bibliothecaris she/her

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 16 April 2026 at 08:30 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )

🔥 FIRESIDE FEDI — FOLLOW ALL THREE! 🔥

📺 Live: @[email protected] (#livestream)

🎬 VOD: @[email protected] (#Peertube #VOD)

🔔 Alerts: @[email protected] (new shows!) #firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

Everyday people ask us where to start with their transition towards #digitalautonomy. And there is no easy answer, unfortunately. Well, the fundamental aspect with autonomy is that many people and communities are working it their way, addressing the specific needs of their community, and that is how it should be.

Lessons learnt by many of us on this field: co-create services that address those specific needs of the community, and build in democratic processes, through #commons governance and #cooperative membership where adequate, sharing knowledge internally and externally, connecting to other communities.

And there, I find my motivation: to connect the fragmented communities, coordinate efforts to build up better value propositions.

That is for me one of the key things to be contributing to the #DemocraticTechFund, to weave networks, to share transition strategies, to document what is missing, to put in motion campaigns to mobilise more people and resources to go together.

Given the #DigitalCoup and the urgency to transition to #DigitalAutonomy, we’re building up the https://DemocraticTech.Fund. It is a networked approach, aiming to increase our collective capacity, to discover the tech that is already available to us, to deploy it in ways that we can own it, to share learnings of the transition, to move there together, so we can overcome network effects.

It is our intention to identify together the gaps of what is needed to make the transition, to fund that collectively. This can be tech, media to raise awareness for the positive alternatives already out there, and federating our communities. We’re starting as civil society, and we intent to invite institutions – public and private – to chip in and multiply the contributions. Together we can make the impact that is needed.

#DemocraticTechFund #dtf

making new immich server #homelab
immich is #google images replacement at home
#DigitalAutonomy #selfhost #SelfHosting #linux

It's a raspberrypi 4 with external USB drive (ssd) running #dietpi

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In 1829, when Englishman Thomas Peel tried to establish an agricultural colony on Australia, something unexpected happened: his workers simply abandoned him en masse; a 19th century style Great Resignation. Despite Peel's large amount of capital brought over from England, these workers didn't need to subordinate themselves to Peel's capital, as they could just... move over to the next plot of land and continue to go into business for themselves. Peel's capital had no command, as labourers still had access to The Commons. The enclosing of The Commons was the necessary to shift the power from landowners to owners of capital, and for capitalism to bloom.

Similarly, today, frontier AI labs command no control, unless they enclose The Commons:
- I have no reason to go to Claude or ChatGPT if I can readily find the information I need in an online encyclopaedia
- I don't need to reach for Claude Code if collaborative QA platforms thrive (yes, I'm aware StackOverflow had it's share of issues even before AI)

Resisting AI today is the modern battle against enclosing our Digital Commons. I don't think that protections from scrapers are going to work, as they're most likely going to damage to discovery of content and knowledge.

#Capitalism #DigitalAutonomy #TheCommons #AI #LLM #Socialism #Labour

TikTok wordt onderzocht door de EU omdat het ontwerp mogelijk verslavend is en grote hoeveelheden gebruikersdata verzamelt.

📎 https://www.jewiltwat.nl/tiktok-hoe-verslaving-en-geopolitiek-samenkomen-in-een-app/2211/

#TikTok #PrivacyFirst #DigitalAutonomy #EU #Verslaving #DataOwnership

TikTok wordt onderzocht door de EU omdat het ontwerp mogelijk verslavend is en grote hoeveelheden gebruikersdata verzamelt.

📎 https://www.jewiltwat.nl/tiktok-hoe-verslaving-en-geopolitiek-samenkomen-in-een-app/2211/

#TikTok #PrivacyFirst #DigitalAutonomy #EU #Verslaving #DataOwnership

TikTok wordt onderzocht door de EU omdat het ontwerp mogelijk verslavend is en grote hoeveelheden gebruikersdata verzamelt.

📎 https://www.jewiltwat.nl/tiktok-hoe-verslaving-en-geopolitiek-samenkomen-in-een-app/2211/

#TikTok #PrivacyFirst #DigitalAutonomy #EU #Verslaving #DataOwnership

TikTok wordt onderzocht door de EU omdat het ontwerp mogelijk verslavend is en grote hoeveelheden gebruikersdata verzamelt.

📎 https://www.jewiltwat.nl/tiktok-hoe-verslaving-en-geopolitiek-samenkomen-in-een-app/2211/

#TikTok #PrivacyFirst #DigitalAutonomy #EU #Verslaving #DataOwnership

TikTok wordt onderzocht door de EU omdat het ontwerp mogelijk verslavend is en grote hoeveelheden gebruikersdata verzamelt.

📎 https://www.jewiltwat.nl/tiktok-hoe-verslaving-en-geopolitiek-samenkomen-in-een-app/2211/

#TikTok #PrivacyFirst #DigitalAutonomy #EU #Verslaving #DataOwnership

A Fair to remember ! Today was the New year, new digital you? the UG Digital Autonomy Fair! Less big tech, more academic control ! with speakers from the university of Groningen, and SURF about on Zotero, Linux workspaces, Nextcloud/UniShare, RDMS, Mastodon, &stands representing different tools used with the university including the UMCG ! Congratulations to the organizers the Alliance for Digital Autonomy (ADA). Thanks all speakers & participants ! #ADA #digitalautonomy #RUG

🧑‍💻 Συζήτηση για ανάπτυξη λογισμικού: On-premise vs. Cloud το 2026 - Ποιο μοντέλο ταιριάζει στις ανάγκες ελευθέρου λογισμικού και ελέγχου δεδομένων;

💡 @ONLYOFFICE Docs προσφέρει ευελιξία: #SelfHosted για απόλυτο έλεγχο ή cloud ανάπτυξη. Ιδανικό για ολοκληρωμένες λύσεις σε ERP, DMS, LMS.

Διαβάστε την πλήρη ανάλυση: https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/el/2026/01/on-premise-vs-cloud

#FOSS #OpenSource #DataPrivacy #AGPL #CloudNative #OnPremise #OfficeSuite #Linux #LibreSoftware #DigitalAutonomy #Encryption #Tech

@lexinova @nlnetlabs @nextcloud @terts

I wrote once a blog about #GitLab, #GitHub, and #Forgejo (#codeberg). What to choose?

It is in Dutch, but I'm pretty sure your browser can translate it for you:

https://developer.overheid.nl/blog/2025/11/11/git-forge-overheid

It is a recommendation for a #GitForge for the Dutch #government.

Part of the conclusion:
In summary, from the point of view of digital sovereignty and digital autonomy is a self-hosted Forgejo the best choice for the government.

#digitalsovereignty #digitalautonomy

The next release of the operating system for the #Librem5 is getting closer.

Have a look at this upgrade sneak preview:

https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/pureosupgrade-1.webm

The Librem 5 or #LibertyPhone by @purism gives you full control over your phone.

You have full software #freedom and #privacy. No #lockin, but #DigitalSovereignty. You can break fully free from #BigTech with these phones. #Purism invested a lot in software for Linux phones together with many others.

#FOSS #Linux #Phone #MobileLinux #DigitalAutonomy