LeafPlaza's mobile app is going open
Any ATProto server, any user. Just remember your data lives in your server, so custom servers may or may not be sovereign.
Privacy as EU Tech advantage
Online crime loves legal massive data collection, grey systems, and jurisdictional gaps. Privacy-first design can actually reduce crime exposure and build trust in digital services. It is also central to the EU's tech autonomy: build systems aligning with European rights and risk models. Do not rely on foreign platforms or copy outside practices that might go against the EU values and needs.
W gate: The Ombudsman has our complaint against the EU Commission
The EU Commission did not address our concerns, as expected, so it is time to engage with the Ombudsman and get a notch up on the noise we are making.
LeafPlaza filed a complaint against the European Commission. Here is why.
The high level EU leadership has endorsed W Social publicly. It is also replacing Bluesky as provider in the ATProto space. The choice came without any transparency. LeafPlaza is immediately and directly affected by this decision.
Europe's social media path dilemma
Europe has the opportunity to decide the next social media layer in its own terms. Yet, the choice is whether to build the "European X" or the "EU's Insta". Instead, it is to pick the sunny road of open & interoperable systems, or to repeat the Silicon Valley dangerous path of winner-take-all model.
Why Europe needs its own social layer
And why we have to be very careful with how "European sovereignty" is understood
A European perspective on Attie (Bluesky's AI project)
There's a conversation happening in the Bluesky community right now. It is not going particularly well. Attie is Bluesky's standalone AI assistant that builds custom feeds for you using natural language. Globally, it was not a warm welcome. From a European perspective, we should think about it very strategically.
We start with a repost (sort of)
LeafPlaza will publish articles from time to time. We though of using Ghost (awesome self-host option) but the main problem we had was the comments - we want them on the ATP. Leaflet solves it?