In the last few months, many people have called on the EU to start supporting open alternatives to US-owned social media sites. The thing is: The EU has been doing that for some time already. It has financed, among others, ActivityPub, Mastodon and PeerTube. For nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqdlhn92l7t3wx8ul609md6lh3hl28masrm4sy32hmkrtdav5dc69s6c8gdf (nprofile…8gdf), we spoke to Michiel Leenaars, who professionally gives out buckets of EU cash to open source projects.
#eu #europeanunion #opensource #activitypub #mastodon
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/open-source-funding-on-the-brink-delivering-whats-needed-to-make-europe-sovereign/
Maximilian Henning /
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2025-03-03 11:47:04
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