社交媒体的新时代：在欧洲建立和运营，受我们的法律管辖。

社交媒体的新时代：在欧洲建立和运营，受我们的法律管辖。
The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws

欧洲目前依赖于美国拥有的社交媒体平台，这造成了一种限制民主控制和数据主权的依赖关系。虽然监管有所帮助，但真正的解决方案需要替代技术。新兴的开放社交媒体生态系统，建立在AT协议等开放协议之上，提供了一条有希望的前进道路。这些系统优先考虑用户控制、数据隐私，并防止单家公司垄断，从而实现互操作性——用户可以无缝切换服务而不会丢失连接。利用AT协议的平台Bluesky已经拥有超过4000万用户，证明了其可扩展性。 Eurosky旨在抓住这个机会，通过建立欧洲托管的基础设施来实现。这将降低欧洲企业家开发竞争性社交应用程序的门槛，并赋予用户重新掌控其在线体验的能力，从而为欧洲大陆培育一个更加独立和安全的数字未来。

一场 Hacker News 的讨论围绕着新的欧洲社交媒体平台“eurosky.tech”。最初的帖子引发了关于潜在审查和控制的争论。一位评论员立即否定了这个平台，预测它会“毫无生气”并强制执行“被批准的观点”，最终导致失败。另一位用户同意现有的社交媒体*确实*受到严重审查，并以 YouTube 的评论隐藏和 Facebook 的通知延迟为例，说明其目前的无用性。然而，第三位评论员强烈不同意这种负面情绪，指责第一位用户过于戏剧化和两极分化，让人想起阴谋论。他们认为审查不太可能发生，并批评了这种固执己见，认为这不符合开放讨论和可能性的“黑客精神”。这场对话凸显了对言论自由的担忧以及平台控制的潜在陷阱。

原文

THE PROBLEM

Today, social media is critical technology. It shapes information flows, social norms, and political discourse. Yet Europe runs on US-owned systems whose architectures remain outside European jurisdiction and democratic control.

Regulation can constrain platforms, but without alternative technology, the dependency remains. A sovereign continent cannot outsource its public communications layer.

THE OPPORTUNITY

A new generation of open social media ecosystems built on open protocols offer choice, user control over data and algorithms, and a shared foundation for developers. These open systems discourage the domination of any one company. AT Protocol is one open protocol that is showing a lot of promise.

AT Protocol enables real interoperability: users can move between services without losing their networks, and developers can build applications that work across the entire ecosystem. Bluesky, the largest app built on the protocol, already has over 40 million users, demonstrating that this technology works at scale.

For Europe, this is our chance to build competitive alternatives to Big Tech. But we need European-hosted infrastructure to make that possibility a reality.

THE SOLUTION

Eurosky builds the foundations that make it cheaper and faster for European entrepreneurs to create social applications and for users to reclaim their online experiences.