I'd like to request a favor from #MastodonCanada. Please share and boost our recent announcement of our Proselytizing for Plushtodons campaign and contest. Yes, it's a tongue twister but hopefully memorable. Help us build a community that can have an impact on #SocialMedia and #DigitalSovereignty in Canada.
Everyday this week we will add encouragement and info in an effort to build momentum. But we need more Canadians to join our campaign.

#ProselytizingforPlushtodons
elbowsupdigital.ca/news/prosel…

A suggestion, if I may,
as digital sovereignty is your goal, one I wholeheartedly support, and since you are presenting arguments against US control (and oversight?) I suggest you wade into the BillC-22 problem.

Digital sovereignty is meaningless if citizens and political accounts have no Right to Privacy.

#DigitalSovereignty #BillC22 #Cdnpoli

Some ideas on where we, or our #MastodonCanada community, can assist in your outreach campaign.

1) Are there additional topics that we should add to our Email Templates? Send us your ideas.

2) Have you successfully convinced a politician to join #Mastodon ? Congrats - and make sure that you notify us by providing their name and account details. We will ask our community to welcome them and give them a positive impression of Mastodon.

#DigitalSovereignty

Do's and Don't for today.

Do make use of other social media apps that politicians use, if you have access to them. A politician is likely paying attention to their BlueSky or Facebook feed so don't hesitate to reach out there and deliver the same arguments why they need to be on Mastodon. If you are not using those social media apps, perhaps you have friends or family who do, and are willing to help you with outreach.

#DigitalSovereignty

Next week, join a live panel discussion - Big Tech’s Hostile Takeover of Democracy: Europe at a Crossroads.

Featuring Carole Cadwalladr, Sophie in 't Veld, Reinier van Lanschot, and Roger McNamee this panel will explore what's preventing Europe from achieving true Digital Sovereignty and what true democratic alternatives could look like.

Learn more & register 👇

citizensreunited.substack.com/…

#EU #SocialWeb #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech

Palantir should have no place in the UK's digital systems.

The government must completely break our dependency on US tech firms.

It'll deliver better value for money and protect our national security from foreign interference.

Invest in open source, not Trumpian tech bros!

Sign our petition ⬇️

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#digitalsovereignty #palantir #opensource #sadiqkhan #metpolice #ukpolitics #ukpol

London Mayor Sadiq Khan shows Palantir the door 🚪

This decision recognises that Big Tech has been grifting the UK for years, by locking us into their exclusive products, jacking up the fees and exporting profits.

The future is open source, NOT shady US spyware companies.

It's time for Digital Sovereignty 🌱

theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

#digitalsovereignty #palantir #opensource #sadiqkhan #metpolice #ukpolitics #ukpol

LoL:

"Europe is pouring more than €2 billion into sovereign cloud initiatives designed to reduce exposure to US legal reach. The EU's IPCEI-CIS program funds infrastructure development. France qualifies operators under SecNumCloud, a framework with nearly 1,200 technical requirements promising "immunity from extraterritorial laws."

But most datacenters and qualified cloud operators still rely heavily on Intel or AMD processors. And inside those processors sits a computer beneath the computer: management engines operating at Ring -3, below the operating system, outside the control of host security software, persistent even when the machine appears powered off. Under the US Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA) 2024, hardware manufacturers count as "electronic communications service providers" subject to secret government orders. "

theregister.com/systems/2026/0…

#EU #DigitalSovereignty #SovereignClouds #BigTech

A gentle reminder that a little effort in reaching out to a local elected representative could result in someone cute and cuddly joining your family. Our #ProselytizingforPlushtodons campaign has the objective of convincing Canadian politicians to join the Mastodon community and rewarding you with a #Plushtodon and some informative reading material. Have you started your campaign?

#DigitalSovereignty #MastodonCanada
elbowsupdigital.ca/news/prosel…

For additional tips and ideas, check out our Email Templates page via the link below. Use them as they are, edit them to match your style or just steal the content you need and create your own. The key is to be consistent without being an irritant. Once or twice a month is about right and don't forget to alter the message each time.

#ProselytizingforPlushtodons #DigitalSovereignty
elbowsupdigital.ca/resources/e…

🇪🇺 We signed the open letter calling for an Open Source First approach in Europe.

The question public institutions should ask first is simple:

🤔 Is there already a qualified open-source solution that does the job?

If yes, it should be seriously considered before creating new dependencies.

That is how digital sovereignty becomes real.
Read the letter: open-xchange.com/hubfs/PDFs/An…

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSourceFirst #XWiki

Is there a realistic path forward for a #digitalEurope that is different from the hostile dystopia engineered by US #bigtech ?

It is unclear, but on this #europeday some thoughts and speculations on whether European #digitalsovereignty is a pie in the sky or something that might actually happen.

First, digital society is built on silicon stuff. In hardware, Europe is at best a small part of a US dominated supply chain. This means debilitating, eventually terminal long-term dependency.

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ALASCA is proud to support OpenForum Europe's initiative towards an EU Sovereign Tech Fund in order to strenghten open-source technology and open standards.💪💯

The in the letter proposed EU Sovereign Tech Fund aims to be an initiative to secure, maintain and strengthen our open digital infrastructure here in Europe.

You can check out the whole letter here 👉 eu-stf.openforumeurope.org/wp-…

#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #EUPolicy #Cybersecurity #DigitalEurope

As a European citizen, I want a real digital public space, an agora where voices are free, not filtered, not owned, not traded 💬🌍

That’s why I’ve joined social.netdynamics.eu

This isn’t just another network. It’s part of the Fediverse 🤝 An open, federated space where no single power controls the conversation, where your voice belongs to you 🔓

No artificial limits. No hidden algorithms shaping your reach. No walls around your network.

Just people, ideas, debate, and connection across Europe 🇪🇺

If we want a sovereign digital future, we have to build it, and use it.

Join the agora. Speak freely. Be part of something that doesn’t belong to Big Tech 🔥

#DigitalSovereignty #CitizenFirst #Fediverse #PublicAgora #FreeTheWeb

For too long, our digital conversations have been owned, filtered, and monetized by platforms that don’t serve us 🌍💸 It’s time to break free 🔓

Welcome to social.netdynamics.eu, an open, independent space built on the Fediverse 🤝 No gatekeepers, no artificial limits, no invisible rules controlling what you can say or how far your voice can travel 💬

Here, your ideas are not reduced to fit a box 📦 Your voice is not throttled. Your network is not locked in.

This is about digital independence 🇪🇺 This is about reclaiming our public space. This is about building something better, together.

Join, speak, connect, and disrupt the status quo 🔥

#Fediverse #TakeBackTheWeb #DigitalSovereignty #EUVoices #OpenInternet

🤩 Now available online: @_elena ’s wonderful keynote speech at the #2MR festival:

„I have a dream“ – A view of the Open Social Web in 5 years
👉 watch.2mr.social/w/k3ngQ8Xr3AN…

> To me, the #Fediverse is the best, most empowering #SocialMedia experience that I have ever had.

About #2MR: 2mr.social/

#SaveSocial #DiDay # #FOSS #Floss #Mastodon #democracy #digitalindependence #digitalsovereignty #media #danmarkskifter #DigitalRights

@erikcats Yeah, I don't see this one flying either, but who knows.

I am curious though, if any of these new european solutions will manage to take hold.
I'm seeing so much more of this these days than I used to, so I think there's a real moment right now. Which is a good sign. Europeans are waking up to the need for #DigitalSovereignty

Is the Bluesky kind of federation an example for the future of the Fediverse?

Read here what I think about this:
blog.gelbphoenix.de/the-glass-…

#Fediverse #Bluesky #Blog #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #DigitalSovereignty #ATProto

Updated! We are now up to 20 entries in my European digital sovereignty tracker. New examples of orgs ditching US tech include media entities, the Dutch National Bank, and open source sewing software.

Thanks to everyone who has sent me examples, please do keep them coming if there are others I am missing!

There's a handful that I am still reviewing and I'm also considering in the next update including new categories (political declarations, funding, projects such as Euro-Office, etc)

drive.proton.me/urls/EG60KWHED…

#digitalsovereignty #europe #tech #opensource

Goose and Gander

I complained when M Carney used Google to talk to #Canadians. #Canada and its politicians must assert their #DigitalSovereignty, and that means making their content available in safe, surveillance-free venues FIRST, and only feed the #USA's #GAFAM / #AI / #SurveillanceEconomy SECOND. Walk the talk.

And that includes you, @avilewis. Your #mastodon staffers know exactly what I am talking about: #Peertube, #Loops, #Pixelfed, and the rest of the #federated platforms. #Fediverse.

From the EU statement "Social media platforms offer highly addictive designs – infinite scrolling that is feeding the addiction, short videos snap attention span, highly personalised content, targeted. "

So fix the bloody platforms that harm our children first.

Making adults compensate for a lack of regulation by the EU of the digital market place by forcing them to constantly ID themselves is addressing the wrong set of issues.

#digitalsovereignty #surveillance #chatcontrol

Please stop publishing lies about this.

The code WILL NOT run on ANY device.

My primary phone is a recently purchased 4G dumb phone with no internet capabilities and RAM measured in megabytes.

It is a device.

It does what I need it to do and I expect to get ten years worth of use out of it.

I cannot install any apps on it.

Who will make this code run on my dumb phone so that I am not forced to buy a smartphone with an OS developed in the US?

#digitalsovereignty