Jos Poortvliet
@jospoortvliet.bsky.social
People person, tech enthusiast & all-things-open evangelist. Cofounder & Coms director at Nextcloud, the open source, privacy-focused collaboration software company. Berliner. Dogs. No pineapple on pizza.
Saw a Dutch TV item about the concept of "enshittification" from Cory Doctorow (follow his writing on
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
)- it is translated quite well.
Triggered me to think of an interesting article by Paul Krugman (on his substack) where he generalized the concept to all business. 👇
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
)- it is translated quite well.
Triggered me to think of an interesting article by Paul Krugman (on his substack) where he generalized the concept to all business. 👇
August 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Saw a Dutch TV item about the concept of "enshittification" from Cory Doctorow (follow his writing on
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
)- it is translated quite well.
Triggered me to think of an interesting article by Paul Krugman (on his substack) where he generalized the concept to all business. 👇
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy
)- it is translated quite well.
Triggered me to think of an interesting article by Paul Krugman (on his substack) where he generalized the concept to all business. 👇
Exactly that. There are some serious additional risks with cross-border services. If your business relies on them to get everything done, it's perhaps time to do a renewed risk assessment. Promises and past performance mean little these days. #selfhosting #digitalsovereignty #resilience
August 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Exactly that. There are some serious additional risks with cross-border services. If your business relies on them to get everything done, it's perhaps time to do a renewed risk assessment. Promises and past performance mean little these days. #selfhosting #digitalsovereignty #resilience
My attempt today had to be rescued by a hand mixer, by the way 🤭
But it is still lovely and tasty, so I'll try again.
But it is still lovely and tasty, so I'll try again.
July 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
My attempt today had to be rescued by a hand mixer, by the way 🤭
But it is still lovely and tasty, so I'll try again.
But it is still lovely and tasty, so I'll try again.
The CIO of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein shares that since parliament voted on it, they are now bound by law to move away from #bigtech and towards #digitalsovereignty #nextcloudsummit25
June 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The CIO of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein shares that since parliament voted on it, they are now bound by law to move away from #bigtech and towards #digitalsovereignty #nextcloudsummit25
The #nextcloudsummit25 is kicking off! #digitalsovereignty
June 5, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The #nextcloudsummit25 is kicking off! #digitalsovereignty