Eurosky Social

@eurosky.social

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Building open social web infrastructure and apps in Europe. Public interest non-profit, part of Modal Foundation. App: mu.social Accounts: move.eurosky.tech Discover: portal.eurosky.tech Web: eurosky.tech Help: eurosky.tech/help Fund: fund.eurosky.tech

Mu Newsrooms view with a publisher picker open, listing outlets like Financial Times, The Verge, WIRED, and Le Monde. The Verge is selected, showing a headphones review, alongside a sidebar of Verge reporters.
Screen video recording showing the newsrooms feature in mu social. users can pick from several publications - each newsroom shows top articles by that publications, a list of their journalists to follow and a feed from their Atmosphere accounts.
Screenshot showing the Oauth login with fields for 'identifier', 'password' and tick box to remember the account on a device
Screenshot of mu.sopcial login in screen with an arrow pointing to the "sign in with password" option
Alt text continued... There’s much more to do, including developing and running independent safety and moderation tools and capacity for the European Atmosphere ecosystem; continuing to develop mu and launching its mobile apps; developing additional infrastructure components as well as continuously improving and strengthening existing infrastructure. All of this costs a bunch of money! We have been successful in getting some grant funding for project work that will enable us to build additional tools for healthier online debate - which we’re very excited to tell you about very soon. However the funding we need to run the core Eurosky infrastructure, develop mu, and keep building essential tools like moderation solutions is still lacking. These are the tech, engineering, design, and coordination costs. We want to make Eurosky self-sustaining over time, with services and subscriptions that bring revenue that we can reinvest into our tech - but this will take time. Today, we need your support - can you help with a recurring or one off donation? If you can, please visit https://whydonate.com/fundraising/the-next-era-of-social-media
Screenshort of a letter (al text continued in thread) Title: A message to all Eurosky members and friends We need your help - can you support Eurosky with a monthly or one-off donation? We are building Eurosky on the principle that it is possible to build better social tech that also prioritize people’s interests over corporate greed. Since the beginning of the year we’ve taken big steps towards our mission of building independent infrastructure and experience for social media in Europe. In April we launched a fundraiser to help accelerate our roadmap, in particular: - Building a European microblogging app backend, to support European apps - Growing our PDS capacity - Supporting up to 100k users Since then, we have raised nearly €15,000 Euros that have directly contributed to: - Upgrading our PDS servers, which are now used by more than 22,000 people, up from around 10,000 when we launched the fundraiser - with plenty of room to grow. - Deploying a high availability Eurosky relay in Europe serving Atmosphere apps, so apps can access Atmosphere data easily from a European source. - Deploying a PLC mirror in Europe serving Atmosphere apps, to ensure that people’s identities also have a European server. - Kicked off building the microblogging backend (“app view”) with a deployment planned for the end of July. - Developed and launched mu, our microblogging application with wildly cool features, hitting 100k active users in its first month, to rave reviews. Whilst all of this costs more than the 15k we raised, it would not have been possible without it.
Screenshot of an Atmosphere Account home screen for ‘Eurosky Social’ (@eurosky.social), showing a white circular logo with a star/sparkle icon. Below it, text reads ‘Your Atmosphere account is hosted by Eurosky PDS’ with a ‘What does this mean?’ link. Four menu rows follow with blue icons: Account (Manage your account), Devices (Manage your active sessions), Apps (Manage applications that have access to your account), and About (What is an Atmosphere Account?).
Screenshot of Eurosky user number counter showing 19,991 people on Eurosky
Screenshot of the mu app in dark mode, on the Discover tab. A post by Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com) reads “THIS is what open networks are for,” quote-posting Brookie (@brookie.blog) who wrote “you can just do things” and tagged @mu.social. The quoted post shows mu’s cat avatar customization screen with colour options: Cream, Black, Grey, Grey and white, Orange (selected), and White. The post has 4 replies, 6 reposts, and 146 likes.
Screen recording showing the news tab on mu, Eurosky's new social app. It allows users to select topics and countries and regions of interest, then shows them a list of trusted news accounts. They can follow them all or a selection. Once they select them they have a feed of these sources.
Screenshots showing a card editing history of a post in mu's editing feature. In the original post there was a typo 'mu' was spelt without the m. This as corrected. The card has the current post at the top with a timestamp and the original below it with its timestamp.
Purple banner with the 'mu' logo in the middle in white with a black drop shadow
A countdown with the numbers 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 and 3.. on a plain purple background
Screenshot of Eurosky European infrastructure progress: 2 of 9 components built, 6 in progress. A vertical timeline of nine AT Protocol components with status labels: Personal Data Server (Complete), Migration Tool (Complete), Relay (In progress), PLC Directory Mirror (In progress), Indexer (In progress), Data Plane (In progress), Search (In progress), Feed Generator (In progress), and Moderation Tooling (Needs funding).
Image of Eucalyptus tree with a clear starry sky in the background
Screenshot of Eurosky webpage showing progress on building European social infrastructure and showing: 2 of 9 components built – 2 in progress Personal Data Server — Complete Where your posts and data live, hosted in Europe, under European law. Migration Tool — Complete Move your existing Bluesky account to Eurosky in minutes. Relay — In progress Listens to every post across the entire network in real time. PLC Directory Mirror — In progress The identity registry that verifies who you are across every app on the network. Indexer — Needs funding Indexes and organises network content to power feeds, discovery, and search.
Screenshot of Bluesky profile for La France sur Bluesky, showing the following: Username: @France-atmo.eurosky.social Stats: 1 follower 307 following 15 posts Profile description: We create, disseminate and update Thematic starter packs of official French accounts to favour the adoption of Bluesky. Directory of French accounts.
Screenshot from Eurosky Portal showing two cards, one for the Skywalker app - indicating it's a Bluesky client for Android and one for the Skeets app - indicating it's a Bluesky client for iOS. Both cards have "Made in EU" badges.
Screenshot of Eurosky crowdfunder showing €10,010 raised out of a target of €100,000 from the contributions of 462 supporters
Screenshot of Eurosky fundraising page showing amount raised: €5,226 out of a €100,000 target and number of supporters (282).
Screenshot of welcome page for Eurosky Portal where users can create an account or sign in to their existing account
Image of Eurosky logo. Eurosky as a wordmark with a four pointed star (pointing north, east, south, west) to the top right of the wordmark. All in black on a white background.
Screenshot showing the welcome screen for EU-HAUL, Eurosky's new tool for migrating ATProto accounts. It shows a number of available interface languages and the first input screen. In the background is the image of a uhaul truck.
Banner announcing Rose Wang, COO, Bluesky and Bryan Newbold, Protocol Engineer, Bluesky as speakers for the Eurosky Live conference. Eurosky Live takes place in Berlin on 19 November. Further details available at eurosky.social/eurosky-live
Alt text: Banner announcing Gauri Van Gulik as a speaker for the Eurosky Live conference. Gauri Van Gulik is Co-Founder and Chair, Better Politics Fund. Eurosky Live takes place in Berlin on 19 November. Further details available at eurosky.social/eurosky-live