To #MastoCanucks who live in the following communities or surrounding areas:
#Innisfil
#Newmarket
#Bradford
#Cookstown
#Barrie
#Collingwood
#Orillia

Please consider signing the petition we have posted asking the Town of Innisfil to leave X and join Mastodon.
More importantly, please post the URL for this petition on other social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, Reddit, etc.) and increase our reach. Thank you!

#DigitalSovereignty #MastodonCanada
https://c.org/75YkJbdryB

To #MastoCanucks who live in the following communities or surrounding areas:
#Innisfil
#Newmarket
#Bradford
#Cookstown
#Barrie
#Collingwood
#Orillia

Please consider signing the petition we have posted asking the Town of Innisfil to leave X and join Mastodon.
More importantly, please post the URL for this petition on other social media platforms Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky, Reddit, etc.) and increase our reach. Thank you!

#DigitalSovereignty #MastodonCanada
https://c.org/75YkJbdryB

Piql is a Norwegian company that takes your data, pictures and other digital artefacts, encodes them in an open binary format and puts them on 35mm black and white film. To retrieve the data, you scan the film, use their open source software and there you go. Very long term storage as a combination of analog and digital. I like! Already used by museums and artists.

https://piql.com

#DigitalSovereignty #Archive

Piql is a Norwegian company that takes your data, pictures and other digital artefacts, encodes them in an open binary format and puts them on 35mm black and white film. To retrieve the data, you scan the film, use their open source software and there you go. Very long term storage as a combination of analog and digital. I like! Already used by museums and artists.

https://piql.com

#DigitalSovereignty #Archive

Piql is a Norwegian company that takes your data, pictures and other digital artefacts, encodes them in an open binary format and puts them on 35mm black and white film. To retrieve the data, you scan the film, use their open source software and there you go. Very long term storage as a combination of analog and digital. I like! Already used by museums and artists.

https://piql.com

#DigitalSovereignty #Archive

Trump threatens allies with retribution for not bending the knee.

UK digital infrastructure can be used as leverage or disrupted on his say so.

We need interoperable open-source systems, so we're not locked in to services owned and controlled by foreign tech firms.

Sign the petition for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty

#Trump #nato #starmer #ukpolitics #ukpol #petition #opensource

Trump threatens allies with retribution for not bending the knee.

UK digital infrastructure can be used as leverage or disrupted on his say so.

We need interoperable open-source systems, so we're not locked in to services owned and controlled by foreign tech firms.

Sign the petition for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty

#Trump #nato #starmer #ukpolitics #ukpol #petition #opensource

📝 New post 🚀

"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/openness-transparency-and-reach-three-reasons-why-public-institutions-should-embrace-the-fediverse/

mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116238453716406471

"Public institutions are funded by taxpayers' money: their communications serve public interests and should be open to all - without the need of creating social media accounts on proprietary, for-profit closed systems. This is especially salient for European governmental communications: isn’t it absurd that they would require social media accounts owned and run by U.S. based companies?"

#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #RSS #SocialWeb

@_elena

@europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

> I look forward to hearing your thoughts and suggestions

Well, great article, Elena ! I would love to disseminate a French version.

Did you link with @leavex ? They carry roughly the same message though not ruling out Bluesky.

Thank you for your thoughts about Bluesky, by the way! I am struggling to understand eurosky. Any thoughts on it?

#SocialMedia #DigitalSovereignty #BigTech #Fediverse #RSS

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116238453716406471

"Public institutions are funded by taxpayers' money: their communications serve public interests and should be open to all - without the need of creating social media accounts on proprietary, for-profit closed systems. This is especially salient for European governmental communications: isn’t it absurd that they would require social media accounts owned and run by U.S. based companies?"

#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #RSS #SocialWeb

📝 New post 🚀

"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/openness-transparency-and-reach-three-reasons-why-public-institutions-should-embrace-the-fediverse/

mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission

#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb

A few months ago, a Canadian judge got her #amazon , #google , #uber, credit cards accounts, etc. closed.

She was doing her job investigating war crimes made in Afghanistan, including by the #USA

That offended Americans. They decided to close all her accounts, which they have control over.

I'm expecting this behavior to become more and more common.

This is why #canada should work on #digitalsovereignty

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2025/12/12/its-surreal-us-sanctions-lock-international-criminal-court-judge-out-of-daily-life/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/116224229406939212

This is precisely the kind of thing we're talking about, when we're talking about #digitalSovereignty - even if Palantir wasn't a very dubious organisation, we still shouldn't be sending our citizens data to overseas orgs. The risks are too great, and the outcomes are permanent.

#palantir #goodLaw

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DarkOptimism/116224229406939212

This is precisely the kind of thing we're talking about, when we're talking about #digitalSovereignty - even if Palantir wasn't a very dubious organisation, we still shouldn't be sending our citizens data to overseas orgs. The risks are too great, and the outcomes are permanent.

#palantir #goodLaw

‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn #Palantir’s role at heart of government is threat to UK’s security #digitalsovereignty

https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-mod-sources-government-data-insights-security-state-secrets