Eurosky’s Identity Platform is an EU-hosted, open-source identity and data-hosting system built for the AT Protocol, enabling a single account to access hundreds of social apps while preserving user control and portability. It bundles a Personal Data Server for storing accounts and data, a Portal for creating and managing accounts, and a Migration Service to move accounts onto or off the platform. The code is openly licensed under Apache-2.0 and MIT, and the platform emphasizes sovereign data hosting so people can switch providers without losing identity or content.
The platform has been verified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a digital public good, meeting criteria for open-source software, open standards, and compliance with privacy and applicable laws. That verification, announced on 16 October 2026 at a social media meeting hosted by the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Equality with the Fritt Ord Foundation in Oslo, recognizes Eurosky’s alignment with transparency, interoperability, and “do no harm” principles. Eurosky is an initiative of Stichting Modal in The Hague, positioning the platform as a public-facing, legally grounded option for EU-based decentralized social networking infrastructure.
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