The stage version looks identical to Bluesky, including the look and the placement of the icons.

Europe might unfortunately not have an alternative to protect its democracies. See also here. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/experts-warn-of-threat-to-democracy-by-ai-bot-swarms-infesting-social-media

BoingBoing today on WSocial.

Thank you. Also really ugly site.

In Italian (where the letter “w” doesn’t exist) it could work: vuvu 😆

We simply don’t know that. I can’t find a website yet, so it is too early to make statements about their use of ActivityPub.

Cristina Caffarra (two “r”'s) is someone to explore though. See my Lemmy post about her.

Thank you.

I mean as identity of course. Which of all these instances is brandfromEU (covered also in the media) and which is not?

When it comes to privacy, Bluesky (owned by Bluesky Social, PBC or public benefit corporation) is not Signal (owned and operated by the Signal Foundation). Direct messages on Bluesky are unencrypted, and they collect quite a lot of personal data (see section 8B in their privacy policy), they use these data for marketing and “other purposes” (section 10), and share them with “third-party services” and “business partners” (section 11). Mastodon should get its act together.

I agree. The argument that the approach is not so different from choosing an email provider to be able to send email to anyone has been too little made.

Handbook on cognitive biases “that are particularly common and relevant to intelligence work” (67 pages) published by the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) https://www.vbs.admin.ch/dam/en/sd-web/K489QrrPSDvt/vbs-ddps-ndb-handbuch-kognitive- verzerrung-en.pdf

I was actually referring to the article, which was shared on those platforms. Euractiv is usually well informed. Since it seems to be based on off the record conversations, it is definitely not something that the European Commission will/can share at this stage.

I found it on Mastodon. It is also on Bluesky and X.