Eurosky + Igalia - partnering for the future of the open social web

Eurosky and Igalia today announced a partnership to develop key infrastructure for the open social web, based on the AT Protocol.

The collaboration brings together Eurosky’s vision of sovereign, public-interest social web infrastructure for Europe and Igalia’s long-standing expertise in open-source engineering and standards development. Together, the two organizations will work to strengthen the technical foundations of the AT Protocol ecosystem and ensure that Europe can contribute to shaping the next generation of social media.

The goal of the partnership is to accelerate the development of independent, European-operated infrastructure for the social web, enabling developers, organizations, and communities to build new social applications on top of open protocols.

Today’s dominant social media platforms concentrate control over user data, algorithms, and infrastructure within a small number of companies. In contrast, the AT Protocol separates these layers, allowing multiple services and applications to interoperate on shared infrastructure and giving users greater control over their identity, data, and online experience.

Through this partnership, Eurosky and Igalia will collaborate on the development of core components and tooling for the AT Protocol ecosystem, including infrastructure services and developer resources that support a growing ecosystem of interoperable social applications.

Outputs from the collaboration will be contributed as open-source software under an MIT License, ensuring that the technology remains freely available for developers and organizations building on the open social web.

The work will contribute to Eurosky’s broader mission to establish independent social media infrastructure operating in Europe and under European law. By building core components of the social web stack in the open and running them on European cloud infrastructure the initiative aims to support a diverse ecosystem of social applications that foster competition, innovation, and democratic resilience.

This partnership represents an important step toward a more open, pluralistic, and resilient social web, in which users, developers, and communities have genuine choice over the platforms and services they use.

About Eurosky

Eurosky is a public interest, non-profit, technology organization working towards a thriving open social web for Europe. We build and maintain shared infrastructure on open protocols that enable European entrepreneurs, businesses, and organizations to launch social applications faster and more affordably. We build apps and solutions for people that prioritize interoperability, user control, and democratic values. All our technology solutions are hosted in Europe and governed by European law.

Eurosky is an initiative of the Modal Foundation, a non-profit organization headquartered in the Netherlands.

About Igalia

Igalia is a leading open source consultancy with 25 years of experience, headquartered in Europe but operating with a global reach. As an organization deeply committed to the open source philosophy, Igalia has built its reputation on technical excellence and collaborative development, working with clients and partners across the world.

Igalia is best known for the development of open web standards and browser engines, including Chromium, WebKit, and Gecko, where it stands out as the largest contributor to all major web engines second only to their primary developers. Beyond the browser, Igalia’s engineers are active contributors to a broad spectrum of technologies, including compilers, multimedia frameworks, graphics systems, and the Linux kernel, among others. Igalia is committed not just to any single technology, but to the health and advancement of the open source ecosystem as a whole.