Convener: Melanie Bartos (@melaniebartos@chaos.social)

Participants who chose to record their names here:

• Julian Fietkau (@julian@fietkau.social)
• Eric Fassbender (@fassbender@sciences.social)
• Mark Corbett Wilson (@mcorbettwilson@mastodon.social)
• Babette Knauer (@babetteknauer@mastodon.social)
• Joan (@joanpla@mastodon.social)
• Gilles Dutilh (@DePemig@social.coop)
• samvie (@samvie@chaos.social)
• Paul Fuxjaeger (@cypherhippie@chaos.social)

Notes

RWG (Robert W. Gehl). he runs an ‘academics in fedi’ mailing list, and is building up a network of alternative social media researchers:

• https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/
• They are also on Mastodon: @altsocialmedianet@sciences.social/

Open letter against Big Tech published at University of Groningen: https://www.rug.nl/jantina-tammes-school/community/themes/data-autonomy/petition

Open letter to the Executive Board calling for digital autonomy and independence from Big Tech (Radboud University, signed by +600 academics): https://www.cs.ru.nl/~jhh/open-letter-big-tech.html

Opinie: Universiteit, maak je los van Big Tech (by Albert Meijer en José van Dijck): https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/opinie-universiteit-maak-je-los-van-big-tech~bfab2bd5/

Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for a transformation to digital autonomy (University of Amsterdam): https://algosoc.org/results/calling-for-a-transformation-to-digital-autonomy

Microsoft reaction: “Microsoft gets twitchy over talk of Europe’s tech independence” https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/30/microsoft_getting_nervous_about_europes/

Encyclia roadmap with future ideas: https://encyclia.pub/roadmap

If you happen to be in the Netherlands in September: https://www.rug.nl/library/calendar/250925-academia-at-the-digital-crossroads