Open Social Fund
This page contains a concise overview of projects funded by NLnet foundation that belong to Open Social Fund (see the thematic index). There is more information available on each of the projects listed on this page - all you need to do is click on the title or the link at the bottom of the section on each project to read more. If a description on this page is a bit technical and terse, don't despair — the dedicated page will have a more user-friendly description that should be intelligible for 'normal' people as well. If you cannot find a specific project you are looking for, please check the alphabetic index or just search for it (or search for a specific keyword).
- Integrating Fediverse into Public Administration, EU Voice-Video case study —
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The EU’s reliance on profit-driven, closed-source and ad-based social media platforms comes with significant challenges to digital sovereignty. Dependency on these to facilitate official communication can undermine democracy and influence political opinions.
The goal of this project is to provide policy recommendations and comprehensive guides for public administrations, and civil society actors interested in self-hosting and alternatives. A starting point of the projects is the pioneering effort by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) to integrate self-hosted Fediverse instances into public administration ("EU Voice" and "EU Video").
The project will map the landscape of Fediverse use and the surrounding policy considerations in the EU's public administration by issuing informal inquiries with stakeholders, via Freedom of Information Requests (FOIA) requests of involved institutions. The project will also conduct in-depth interviews to elicit the affordances and limitations in operational activities to set up and maintain Fediverse instances and the impact on organizational structures and existing social media outreach strategies.
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- Trust and Safety providers for the Fediverse — Sharing moderation and compliance mechanisms between ActivityPub-based networks
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The project summary for this project is not yet available. Please come back soon!
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- Fediverser —
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Fediverser is a set of tools to help people migrate away from proprietary social media into upcoming alternatives in the Fediverse. It provides a service that runs on top of Lemmy to let the instance admins create a map of legacy (e.g. subreddits) to specific Lemmy communities. It also provides an authentication and signup system on top of OAuth, which allows, for example, for people to sign up to a Lemmy server by using nothing but their existing Reddit account, and when they signup the user will be automatically subscribed to the Lemmy communities that correspond to their favorite subreddits.
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