Eurosky

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Eurosky is building a European base for the open social web, to support and create apps that actually serve the interests and needs of people, and enable European tech to compete in the global digital economy.

Eurosky is building software infrastructure for Europe and contributing open source software for developers globally. Eurosky user services (such as the eurosky.social accounts) are open to anyone who wants their data securely hosted in Europe. It is not just for Europeans.

Your data will be hosted on EU servers, subject to GDPR and European law rather than US or another country's law. Many users mention this as their primary motivation, especially in the current geopolitical climate.

No. Eurosky is a non-profit initiative, not an official EU government body. It is independent and is explicitly not a government-run platform.

The Modal Foundation (Stichting Modal) is a Dutch non-profit, public interest organization and the institutional home of Eurosky. Modal works to support decentralized social technologies that help people create, circulate and discover trustworthy information. The foundation grew out of the Free Our Feeds campaign to advocate for alternatives to big tech.

Eurosky was initially funded by the Free Our Feeds campaign, which has raised funds primarily through individual donations, as well as the contributions of several foundations. Eurosky is now funded through its parent organization, The Modal Foundation. We expect funding to come from a mix of individual contributions, institutional grants, cooperatives, and market-based approaches.

Eurosky is separate from Eurostack. We share similar goals of making Europe's technology infrastructure independent of Big Tech and more competitive, but we focus on different areas of technology and there are no institutional connections between the two. We believe the two organizations are complementary and we are big supporters of Eurostack's ambitions.

Our main focus is on building independent social media infrastructure and apps in Europe that are hosted in Europe, run by a fully European non-profit and subject primarily to European law and jurisdiction. For example, our first service - Eurosky accounts (PDS) - is hosted at Hetzner facilities in Germany and operated by us, with the contract held by our parent legal entity, the Modal Foundation, a Dutch non-profit. We are participating in the multifaceted effort to build fully European information and communications infrastructure. However, we also believe that the internet should remain open and interconnected globally, and inevitably, that means that we interact with technologies and services from around the world. Because we cannot do everything simultaneously, we have set priorities. We are focusing on social technologies because they are the primary online experiences through which many people discover and interact with information and others. We are focusing on open, decentralized protocols and standards because they foster choice, agency and diversity in these interactions. Our goal is to reclaim control of social media and our online public spaces, removing it from the hands of billionaires, foreign governments, or dominance by a single corporation. What matters: organizational independence (European entity providing governance and oversight, structured as a non-profit with a strong public interest mission), legal jurisdiction in Europe, services running on European cloud, and our services being built on open source technologies to the greatest extent possible.

Mastodon (ActivityPub) and Eurosky (AT Protocol) do not need to be rivals. They can be understood as complementary approaches to the same broad goal: an open, interoperable social web that reduces dependence on closed, centralized platforms. Both underlying protocols seek to separate key layers of social media infrastructure so that identity, content, moderation, and user experience are no longer controlled by a single company. Both also aim to give users more control over their online lives, make it easier for communities to shape their own spaces, and create better conditions for innovation. In fact, Eurosky explicitly seeks integration between AT Protocol and ActivityPub as a way of moving toward an open social web that can serve everyone.