Today I joined an interesting panel on Building sovereign digital public spaces, organised by @DIGITALSME .

I particularly enjoyed the presentations by @seabass.bsky.social
(EuroSky) and @philipkristians (Mastodon).

Although I am a big fan of Mastodon, and the Fediverse more broadly, I have to say that Sebastian’s presentation was especially well done. It was interesting to learn how actively he engages in Brussels to discuss EuroSky; next week, for instance, he’ll be meeting with the Green Party.

I do wish we could see more of this kind of political outreach from the Mastodon team as well, though I understand the constraints that come with being a non-profit.

The event organisers will soon publish the videos, including responses to questions from the audience.

For Sebastian:

1) Given EuroSky’s engagement with public institutions, do you see Fediverse bridges as a default feature, so that users, including elected officials, are not isolated from existing networks like Mastodon from day one?

2) How do the costs of running a new server using the Bluesky AT Protocol compare to running servers based on ActivityPub, given that thousands of ActivityPub-compatible servers (e.g. Mastodon, Pixelfed) already exist?

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