Mark Boyd
@markboyd.bsky.social
Mostly here to talk about how to build open digital ecosystems where everyone can participate and co-create (platformable.com) and to share my queer fetish comedy fiction (akamarkboyd.com). He/him 🏳️🌈📚
In 2025, i started the #EuroStack potential newsletter, but i couldn't find the right angle i wanted to focus on. I am superproud of the piece on using EuroStack for decolonisation: you can't show you are worried about EU being a digital colony without addressing Europe's colonisation legacy 1/4
December 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
In 2025, i started the #EuroStack potential newsletter, but i couldn't find the right angle i wanted to focus on. I am superproud of the piece on using EuroStack for decolonisation: you can't show you are worried about EU being a digital colony without addressing Europe's colonisation legacy 1/4
Last week i shared how it was hard to #EuroStack when open source providers (including European) use AWS servers for their online cloud. I love what @openproject.bsky.social are doing: They have two options for cloud hosting, ok yes an AWS option but also the French cloud provider @scaleway.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Last week i shared how it was hard to #EuroStack when open source providers (including European) use AWS servers for their online cloud. I love what @openproject.bsky.social are doing: They have two options for cloud hosting, ok yes an AWS option but also the French cloud provider @scaleway.com
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We are looking for an European 🇪🇺 alternative to replace OpsGenie / PagerDuty; could you please share some love with us ? #cloud #sovereignty
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
We are looking for an European 🇪🇺 alternative to replace OpsGenie / PagerDuty; could you please share some love with us ? #cloud #sovereignty
"Let's be bold, ambitious and creative!" @diegonaranjo.bsky.social shares a plan for 2026: www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-y...
2026 - The year we fight back
Everywhere I look in my professional and personal circles, things look rather depressing. Whether the ongoing genocide in Palestine, Russian's invasion of Ukraine, the latest Trump's attack on democra...
www.linkedin.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Let's be bold, ambitious and creative!" @diegonaranjo.bsky.social shares a plan for 2026: www.linkedin.com/pulse/2026-y...
We've mapped the #agrifood ecosystem. We want to help players identify how data flows, how to align with standards & regulations, who to partner with, & how to calculate impacts on society, local economies & the environment. Anyone want to test this out? platformable.com/blog/agrifoo...
The Agrifood Data & Digital Ecosystem
Understanding the agrifood digital and data ecosystem is essential as systems become more digital and issues including climate impacts, sustainability, trade, and smart agriculture become more prevalent.
platformable.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We've mapped the #agrifood ecosystem. We want to help players identify how data flows, how to align with standards & regulations, who to partner with, & how to calculate impacts on society, local economies & the environment. Anyone want to test this out? platformable.com/blog/agrifoo...
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We're hiring a postdoc to identify, map and evaluate commercially used age verification systems
Closing Date: 16 January 2026
Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
Closing Date: 16 January 2026
Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
We're hiring a postdoc to identify, map and evaluate commercially used age verification systems
Closing Date: 16 January 2026
Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
Closing Date: 16 January 2026
Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...
Im a big policy nerd, but with #EuroStack i want to bring it down a level and hear more discussions about practicalities, partly as a small business that wants to live the principles of digital sovereignty and partly as a European citizen (ok permanent resident). 1/2
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Im a big policy nerd, but with #EuroStack i want to bring it down a level and hear more discussions about practicalities, partly as a small business that wants to live the principles of digital sovereignty and partly as a European citizen (ok permanent resident). 1/2
Excellent thread to counteract the "competitiveness" agenda as a necessity for EU. As I've said, it doesn't factor in universal healthcare, wage theft and huge inequities, education costs, or that the top companies include meta and other unethical highly ranked enterprises
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
This view is wrong
A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Excellent thread to counteract the "competitiveness" agenda as a necessity for EU. As I've said, it doesn't factor in universal healthcare, wage theft and huge inequities, education costs, or that the top companies include meta and other unethical highly ranked enterprises
Hey I'm gonna be in Paris all of next week if anyone is there and wants to talk digital ecosystems with me?!
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Hey I'm gonna be in Paris all of next week if anyone is there and wants to talk digital ecosystems with me?!
If anyone needs help transferring their playlists to tidal or another service let me know!
😈 Anybody else starting to see those Spotify Wrapped posts and having some feelings? We just launched a thing for that: fftf.link/spotifywhacked
December 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
If anyone needs help transferring their playlists to tidal or another service let me know!
Each of these remixes is a banger in its own right: tidal.com/browse/album...
Kate Nash - GERM Remix EP
Listen to GERM Remix EP on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Each of these remixes is a banger in its own right: tidal.com/browse/album...
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Viktor Orban is currently having a coronary.
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Viktor Orban is currently having a coronary.
Collecting some thoughts and references around data justice principles for health data governance: platformable.com/blog/data-ju...
Data justice principles at the core of a health data governance framework (Data Governance for Digital Health Ecosystems 2)
Data justice is a fundamental context in which health data governance should operate. This article outlines issues to consider in data justice when defining the underlying principles of your health da...
platformable.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Collecting some thoughts and references around data justice principles for health data governance: platformable.com/blog/data-ju...
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“Open source has proven itself to be a winning strategy — not recently, but for decades.” — Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Agency CEO.
#EUSummit #DigitalSovereignty,
#EUSummit #DigitalSovereignty,
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 PM
“Open source has proven itself to be a winning strategy — not recently, but for decades.” — Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Agency CEO.
#EUSummit #DigitalSovereignty,
#EUSummit #DigitalSovereignty,
So proud of my niece Iolanthe in the latest Orville Peck video youtu.be/R5BzsIY1FHk?... Great track, rivaling my recent fave “permanently lonely”
Orville Peck - Drift Away (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Orville Peck
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
So proud of my niece Iolanthe in the latest Orville Peck video youtu.be/R5BzsIY1FHk?... Great track, rivaling my recent fave “permanently lonely”
Still thinking about how @coricrider.com said its not so much “walled gardens” as “cock fighting cages” at #MozFest last week
November 14, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Still thinking about how @coricrider.com said its not so much “walled gardens” as “cock fighting cages” at #MozFest last week
Its out: as amazing as i had hoped. tidal.com/browse/album...
Celeste - Woman Of Faces
Listen to Woman Of Faces on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Its out: as amazing as i had hoped. tidal.com/browse/album...
Celeste’s new album comes out tomorrow. Here’s a demo from it that got me so excited: tidal.com/browse/track...
Celeste - Woman Of Faces (Demo)
Listen to Woman Of Faces (Demo) on TIDAL
tidal.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Celeste’s new album comes out tomorrow. Here’s a demo from it that got me so excited: tidal.com/browse/track...
I'm starting to plan my trip to Paris for 8-13 December. Anyone want to meet up and talk open digital ecosystems while i am there?
November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'm starting to plan my trip to Paris for 8-13 December. Anyone want to meet up and talk open digital ecosystems while i am there?
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Read @robin.berjon.com on cloud infrastructure
Europe must embrace a “break-and-build” strategy:
“break” entrenched monopolies and
“build” its own digital infrastructure and addressing on a sector-by-sector basis
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/5baiDt6?refe...
Europe must embrace a “break-and-build” strategy:
“break” entrenched monopolies and
“build” its own digital infrastructure and addressing on a sector-by-sector basis
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/5baiDt6?refe...
How Many More Cloud Scares Does Europe Need?
Robin Berjon urges the EU to dismantle the entrenched US monopolies that are undermining the goal of tech sovereignty.
prosyn.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Read @robin.berjon.com on cloud infrastructure
Europe must embrace a “break-and-build” strategy:
“break” entrenched monopolies and
“build” its own digital infrastructure and addressing on a sector-by-sector basis
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/5baiDt6?refe...
Europe must embrace a “break-and-build” strategy:
“break” entrenched monopolies and
“build” its own digital infrastructure and addressing on a sector-by-sector basis
@projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/5baiDt6?refe...
Amazing work by @francescabria.bsky.social and team www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Amazing work by @francescabria.bsky.social and team www.authoritarian-stack.info
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Hearing @ruha9.bsky.social today set me up for the rest of the year and for 2026, to be building and supporting alternatives that help us all jump from the current cycle’s endgame to a new world we are all welcome to participate and create in.
November 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Hearing @ruha9.bsky.social today set me up for the rest of the year and for 2026, to be building and supporting alternatives that help us all jump from the current cycle’s endgame to a new world we are all welcome to participate and create in.
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We’ve just launched our Global Digital Health Policy Dashboard, aiming to become an ecosystem view of digital health in each country. Have a look at our beta release and let us know what you think: platformable.com/blog/global-...
Introducing our Global Digital Health Policy Dashboard
Before building out a digital health go to market strategy, or embarking on a digital health initiative in any country, it is important to be able to understand the digital health policy context. The ...
platformable.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We’ve just launched our Global Digital Health Policy Dashboard, aiming to become an ecosystem view of digital health in each country. Have a look at our beta release and let us know what you think: platformable.com/blog/global-...