General

We’ve moved our Bluesky presence. Our account looks the same. Our data now lives somewhere different, on European infrastructure, under European law. Here’s why we made that choice.

What changed and what didn’t

When you use Bluesky, your posts, followers, and interactions live on a server. By default, that server belongs to Bluesky. Moving to a Personal Data Server (PDS) changes the arrangement: you choose where your data is stored, by whom, and under which rules.

Eurosky is a European PDS provider. It operates within EU law, with stronger privacy protections and no commercial model built around exploiting what users share. We now host our Bluesky presence there via their EU-Haul migration service, which took less than an hour. Our content is still visible on Bluesky. Our data is no longer on Bluesky’s servers.

Part of something bigger

This isn’t a standalone technical decision. Internet Archive Europe and the Internet Archive have long been committed to building and supporting decentralised digital infrastructure: the kind that is resilient, publicly accountable, and not dependent on the choices of a small number of private companies.

Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, has made this point clearly and consistently. At the Facebook Museum opening in Eindhoven this April, he described the stakes directly. If Europe doesn’t build its own public digital infrastructure, the choice will narrow to American or Chinese models. “That is not good enough,” he said, “and we have the technologies to do something about it.”

Moving our data to a European server is one small expression of that conviction. Choosing infrastructure that operates by European values, that we can migrate away from freely, and that doesn’t anchor our digital presence to a single company’s decisions is consistent with what we advocate for in policy and in practice.

DWeb Camp: Root Systems

That same conviction is why we’re co-presenting DWeb Camp this summer, as the gathering comes to Europe for the first time, at Alte Hölle in Germany.

DWeb Camp 2026: Root Systems brings together builders, researchers, artists, activists, and policymakers at Alte Hölle, an ancient forest one hour southwest of Berlin, from 8 to 12 July. Internet Archive Europe co-presents the event alongside the Internet Archive and the Department of Decentralization.

The theme captures something real. Like forest ecosystems, decentralised networks derive their strength from what lies beneath the surface: distributed connections that share resources without hierarchy and keep functioning even when individual nodes go down. DWeb Camp exists to build those root systems in practice, not just to talk about decentralisation, but to make it.

Brewster Kahle originated the DWeb project in 2016. In the decade since, it has grown into a global network of builders and dreamers united by shared principles: trust, human agency, mutual respect, and ecological awareness. This July, that community gathers in Europe for the first time. We’re proud to help bring it here.

If you build decentralised tools, research digital infrastructure, or simply believe that the web should be resilient and publicly accountable, this is the gathering to be part of. Tickets and details at dwebcamp.org.

You can do this too

If your organisation is on Bluesky, migrating your data to a PDS takes under an hour. Eurosky’s EU-Haul service handles it. Your content stays visible to everyone on the network. You gain more control over your own data. That is a reasonable trade.

Find us on Bluesky at @internetarchive.eu. 

Learn more and migrate your own account at eurosky.tech.