For the last few months in the studio, we’ve been making a conscious effort to detangle our infrastructure, where possible, from US firms – the constant moves being made toward your data not necessarily belonging to you, whether or not you agreed to those terms explicitly or not; the unsavory political landscape fueled by corruption with threats being actively carried out to just freeze people out of technologies because they don’t agree with them; and the uncertainty of the security of our data in the orange man’s oligarchy are just too large an existential threat to ignore, and despite many thinking this may have been a Herculean task, it has, with one or two exceptions, been fairly hassle-free finding alternative companies and services hosted within Europe and the EU.
Today marked another little milestone for that as my atmosphere account, previously hosted by Bluesky, was moved to Eurosky, and I moved my client from the native Bsky portal to Mu.social – which has already impressed, honoring the editing as well as just seeming to be generally faster. I know that may not seem like ‘giving it to the man’, but we make changes in this world mainly through actions that are tiny, cumulative, and seen to most as unimportant, but when we all start making these changes, we start to make a difference.
You can still find me on Bsky, of course, @neilevans.rocks – that’s the magic of the atmosphere: but the data served to you there is served from Europe, protected by European data protections and not subject to the ever-changing tides in the United States.
