I'm not a huge fan of "individual #selfHosting", but prefer "#community self-hosting". Because of #lorryFactor and danger of overwork. Self-hosting for ones family has additional risks, given that some families are dangerous places.
I'm co-maintaining the #Jabber server of the local #Berlin Internet club we founded in 1995 
We give people a free and federated alternative to closed silos such as Whatsapp or Signal.
Could the Netherlands become the first nation to claim digital independence from the US? The Dutch Parliament is exploring ways to limit the influence of US tech giants, reflecting Europe's growing push for digital sovereignty in a time of global instability. 
#DigitalSovereignty #TechPolicy
Hi everybody! Next Monday we're launching an article on Digital Sovereignty, and why it matters to Europe.
The article aims to give an overview of Europe's over-reliance on critical services and infrastructure to meet its demands, some examples of why this is problematic, and which actions have been taken so far.
See you around, and waiting to hear your thoughts!
C'est magnifique, pourquoi ne pas faire la même chose au Québec et Canada?
Toute une suite de logiciels open-source sur des serveurs au pays pour remplacer les outils courants de Microsoft (office, Teams), Zoom, Google Docs/Workspace, etc...
Tout cela mis à disposition à l'ensemble des fonctionnaires, puis éventuellement à toute la population.
J'adore !
#foss #opensource #souverainetenumerique #digitalsovereignty #france #allemagne #paysbas #canada #quebec
Europe’s digital sovereignty is at risk.
Governments say they want sovereignty, yet they keep buying from #Microsoft #Google and #AWS.
If Europe wants control over its digital future, it must act now. The choice is clear:
Invest in open-source technologies Reduce dependency on foreign providers
Read the full article 
https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/European-digital-sovereignty/
Gnome 48 also brings so many improvements to Gnome Mobile.
Scrolling is just as smooth as it's on Android.
OSK and Touch text selection are better now.
And the cameras have started working on #Oneplus6
Overall, it's getting to where it is starting to feel like a real alternative 
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My dream of crawling away from the clutches of Big-Tech gets closer.
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
“The motions were submitted and all passed yesterday during a discussion in the Netherlands’ House of Representatives on concerns about government data being shipped overseas. While varied, they all center on the theme of calling on the government t ...continues
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/time-to-ditch-us-tech-for-homegrown-options-says-dutch-parliament/
Joining the #European #propaganda team. Here you go: a short guide on how to become a digitally sovereign European citizen.
"Companies spanning areas including cloud, telecoms, defence, along with several regional business and startup associations, have put their names to the letter — which was sent to the Commission on Sunday — urging the bloc to switch its tech strategy onto a quasi-war footing by committing to support “sovereign digital infrastructure.”
The plan pushes for reducing reliance on foreign-owned Big Tech by actively fostering development of a so-called “Euro stack.” The European digital infrastructure pitch is not coming out of thin air — a Euro Stack paper written by, among others, the competition economist Cristina Caffarra was published in January fleshing out the strategy in some detail.
There has also been, over the last half year or so, a smattering of conference chatter turning over the potential for enterprising Europeans to seize a geopolitically fraught moment to press the case for the EU to adopt a digital industrial strategy that’s squarely focused on favoring local innovation."
Detaching from US systems, 15/x
The EU has had the "Digital sovereignity for Europe" think tank for a while:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2020)651992
This has been a step in the right direction, but the dominance of US software companies means that most of the services we use are American, not European.
Europe bets on RISC-V for homegrown supercomputing platform
—The Register
｢ A 38-strong group of tech players have founded a project with the snappy name Digital Autonomy with RISC-V in Europe, aka DARE, that aims to develop processor units to power the continent’s supercomputers and other high-performance machines ｣
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/07/dare_europe_risc_v_project/
“The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.” Here’s yet another brilliant feature by @Daojoan. “The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. If they see that the internet wasn’t built to be a factory for engagement metrics and AI-generated content farms. It was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account,” she writes.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied
The last episode on @neil_selwyn ‘s education technology society podcast is so on point.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/education-technology-society/id1690328180?i=1000698248676
I love that he addresses the insecurity created by dependency and emotional buy-in of corporate platforms.
I also appreciate that he is on the Fediverse so as to avoid these platform lock-ins.
If you get a chance to hear this podcast episode (and I highly recommend you do even if you are not an educator), then may I also recommend you let Prof. Selwyn know here on Mastodon how educational these podcasts are and how interesting the guests are.
If you missed @molly0xfff's #SXSW conversation with @mike about digital sovereignty, you missed out — one audience member said it was "worth the badge alone." Luckily, it's now available on the SXSW site. Check it out here:
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP147154
We're working on editing all the #FediverseHouse panels and talks, and we'll post them and let you know here as soon as they're ready!
Just switched my company's S3 bucket storage from Backblaze to Hetzner 
Moving to #EuropeanTech to ensure #GDPR compliance, and as a bonus our new solution is running on 100% green energy 
Posted this on Facebook 10 days ago, after an extended hiatus there, and just prior to doing another extended logging off - I think it is relevant to all those moving away from corporate social media as well - read the mirrored post at:
https://diasporasocial.net/posts/545d82b0e018013d71e20a04ffb1b246
