A New Continent of Digital Independence
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How to use Mastodon
Mastodon is the free, open, federated social media platform for Europe. It’s where you’ll find the official accounts from the European Commission, the german parliament Bundestag, newspapers like Le Monde and organisations such as Greenpeace. This is where you as a citizen would want your own country’s goverment, parliament, institutions and universities to make their…
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Switching to a European e-mail provider
When chief prosecutor for the ICC, brit Karim Khan, arrived at the office in the Hague and sat down over his coffee a morning in May of 2025, he discovered, to his astonishment, that he was locked out from his mail account and was unable to access any of his mails. His Outlook mail account…
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A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
Cory Doctorows addressing 39c3 in Hamburg December 28 2025. The video is embedded from: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet#t=176 “Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of America’s trading partners from disenshittifying their internet: the US trade representative threatened the world with tariffs unless…
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How to set up automatic e-mail forwarding in Gmail
When you switch from Gmail to a new e-mail service, you can set up automatic e-mail forwarding to get your e-mail to your new inbox. This way you can at your own pace, when you have time, update your contacts, those whose mails you wish to recieve, and you can do it when it suites…
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Bluesky – the dream is over
by Sascha Pallenberg October 22, 2025 (8 min read) Autumn is coming… and not only outside, but also in my social media world. Yet again I’m at the point of leaving a platform. And this time it’s Bluesky – this once promising alternative to Twitter, that wanted to be a safe place for exchange, creativity…
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EU-tech instead of Silicon Valley – a people’s computer for Europe
By Sascha Pallenberg – 7 minute read Can we build computers, smartphones and tablets without being dependent on the USA? Today I’m weaving the tapestry of a big vision: our own chips, own software and own platforms – made in Europe. From European SoC design, via Linux, to browsers like Vivaldi and AI solutions from…
