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As far as I can tell this has no connection to the European Union, it's just a private company that launched a bsky instance?
by INTPenis 7mo ago
As far as I can tell this has no connection to the European Union, it's just a private company that launched a bsky instance?
- embedding-shape 7mo agoAs far as I can tell, it also doesn't have anything to do with the Linux Foundation, and the website also doesn't claims to be connected to either of them, but I guess worth saying for some reason? Seems to be run by "The Modal Foundation", a public interest foundation based in the Netherlands, according to the FAQ: https://www.eurosky.tech/faq https://www.eurosky.tech/faq
- ajsalminen 7mo agoModal also seems like a recently started shell for this and the funding they got so far originates from US non-profits through Free Our Feeds which you might remember from trying and failing to raise 30 million USD for a similar purpose without the whole European thing. I don't think any of the key people involved is actually Dutch.
- INTPenis 7mo agoIt's worth noting when the foundation has registered itself an address in Haag for some reason. People might think this is funded by the EU because of the way they've launched it, but it's not.