Mastodon and Bluesky show interoperability in action
Tools to bridge and otherwise help Mastodon and Bluesky work together are slowly reducing some of the obstacles to replacing X/Twitter.
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Category: Interoperability
Towards European Digital Independence
Congratulations to Alexandra Geese, Francesca Bria and Cristina Caffarra for organising a timely and interesting conference at the European Parliament on the idea of a “Euro-stack” (building on existing “stacks”/digital public infrastructure created by India and Brazil). You can watch the whole 5-hour event; I made a few notes (below) as I watched the middle half.
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No, EU competition policy was not responsible for global IT chaos
You have to admire Microsoft’s PR people for their cynicism… they are not-so-subtly letting the media know that the REAL baddie in Friday’s global IT outage was not CrowdStrike, nor poor security design of Windows, but… the European Commission’s DG Competition!
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What do Germans think about DMA interoperability?
In December, German research agency WIK published an interesting (critical) study on the DMA NIICS interoperability requirements. I have innovation-related questions 🧐
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Founder Jack Dorsey leaves Bluesky because… reasons
Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey caused a minor social media ripple last week when he left the Bluesky board… a project he founded and initially funded in his Twitter days. He’s now given a (slightly confused) interview explaining why.
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GDPR under-enforcement by regulators is a warning for the DMA
Prof. David Erdos has shared his latest (excellent) research showing i) little UK GDPR enforcement, ii) a worrying gap with formal law expectations & iii) limited accountability for this. I hope the European Commission is not going down the same route with the Digital Markets Act.
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Why is Wikimedia (still) blocking contributions via VPNs?
Wikimedia has blocked anyone using Virtual Private Networks, including Apple’s Private Relay service, from editing pages — even when logged in 😬 It’s easier to block wiki-vandals if they can’t easily hop from one IP address to another. But it means anyone using a VPN to protect their privacy — including Tor and Apple’s Private Relay — is collateral damage.
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Auto-translation and view diversity
What I’m missing most from Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn and X is auto-translation. Manual translation doesn’t work well in a scrolling feed model, because you’re less likely to pause on foreign language posts to manually translate them.
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End-to-end security does not require identical endpoints
I hesitated even in linking to this preposterous article. But its definition of ‘end-to-end’ encryption as requiring ‘identical endpoints’ is not one I’ve seen before (and my PhD title literally includes the phrase!)
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Does the DMA require direct app downloads?
Android, iOS and Windows have all been designated as gatekeeper operating systems (OSes) under the Digital Markets Act. Does this mean they must support direct installation of third-party apps?
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