What Eurosky does

Eurosky is an early-stage European social media platform launched in April 2026 by Dutch Foundation Modal, a Dutch nonprofit organization. The platform provides decentralized social networking infrastructure built on the AT protocol — the same protocol underlying Bluesky — and positions itself as a sovereign European alternative to dominant US-based platforms such as Meta and X, as well as to Chinese platforms. Its core product offering allows users to access multiple European social networks through a single account while retaining ownership of their personal data on European-compliant servers, with stated design choices intended to reduce algorithm-driven extreme content.

The company's target customers are privacy-conscious European users and digital sovereignty advocates who distrust US platforms amid transatlantic tensions and who seek alternatives offering data localization and less aggressive algorithmic curation. Distribution is digital-first via a self-serve web portal (portal.eurosky.tech), with go-to-market relying on earned media coverage in European technology outlets (notably French outlet 01net) and alignment with the broader European sovereign-infrastructure movement.

Eurosky's business model is currently community-funded rather than revenue-generating. Following a DDOS attack that affected Bluesky (on which Eurosky is partially dependent for moderation infrastructure), the company launched a micro-donation campaign targeting 100,000 euros to support recovery and continued development. The platform has approximately 10,000 users, a headcount of 1-10, no publicly disclosed pricing, and no institutional venture capital backing identified in available sources. The company remains in a pre-revenue startup phase.

Name

Eurosky

Legal name

Eurosky

Website

https://eurosky.social

Company type

Private

Founded year

2026

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Eurosky is an early-stage Dutch nonprofit-operated social media platform built on the AT protocol, offering privacy-conscious European users decentralized access to multiple social networks with EU-compliant data ownership.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Netherlands

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Micro-donations: The platform is raising 100,000 euros through micro-donations following a DDOS attack on Bluesky, indicating a community-funded early-stage model.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Eurosky is an AT protocol-based European personal data server platform that provides sovereign digital infrastructure enabling users to access multiple European social networks with a single account. The platform retains user data ownership on European-compliant servers, positioning itself as a decentralized alternative to US-based social media platforms like Meta and X. It currently serves approximately 10,000 users and is funded through community micro-donations.

Product overview

Eurosky is a single core platform product — a European personal data server platform built on the AT protocol — providing sovereign digital infrastructure. The platform enables users to access multiple European social networks through a single account while maintaining data ownership on European-compliant servers. It is currently in early startup phase with approximately 10,000 users and is raising funds through micro-donations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Eurosky Platform A European personal data server platform built on the AT protocol that provides sovereign digital infrastructure, allowing European users to access multiple European social networks with a single account while retaining ownership of their data on European-compliant servers. Currently serves approximately 10,000 users.

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Dutch Foundation ModalfounderOthersDutch Foundation Modal is the organization that launched Eurosky. As the founding entity, it established the platform as a European personal data server initiative.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Lemmy: Lemmy is a federated, open-source Reddit alternative built on ActivityPub. It targets the same decentralized social segment as Eurosky but focuses on link aggregation and community forums rather than microblogging identity.
• Pixelfed: Pixelfed is a federated, ActivityPub-based photo-sharing network within the Mastodon ecosystem. It overlaps Eurosky's decentralization and data-sovereignty themes, though focused specifically on image sharing.
• Minds: Minds is an open-source, decentralized social network with token-based rewards, comparable to Eurosky in its emphasis on user data ownership and alternative-economy mechanics, though with a different technology stack.
• Solid (Inrupt): Solid, originated by Tim Berners-Lee and commercialized by Inrupt, is a personal data pod architecture that overlaps Eurosky's European personal data server concept. It targets the same user-data-sovereignty use case from a web-semantics angle rather than a social-protocol angle.
• Nostr-based clients (Damus, Amethyst, Iris): Nostr is an alternative decentralized social protocol with strong adoption among Bitcoin/crypto users. It is a competing decentralized-protocol approach to Eurosky's AT-protocol stack, attracting users who also value sovereignty and censorship resistance.

Others

• Matrix (Element): Matrix/Element is an open, decentralized communications protocol with a European base. While focused on messaging rather than social networking, it shares Eurosky's European-sovereignty, open-protocol orientation and end-to-end user-controlled infrastructure ethos.

Direct peers

• Bluesky Social: Bluesky is the canonical AT-protocol-based decentralized social network and the platform on whose infrastructure Eurosky partially depends. It is the most direct comparable in technology stack, and Eurosky explicitly positions against it in the European market.
• Diaspora: Diaspora is a long-established decentralized social network with a strong European user base and nonprofit governance model. It shares Eurosky's federation and user-data-ownership ethos, making it a direct philosophical and functional comparable.
• Mastodon: Mastodon is the leading decentralized/federated European social network using the ActivityPub protocol. It directly competes for the same privacy-conscious, sovereignty-oriented European user base Eurosky targets, with a much larger existing community.

Broad incumbents

• Threads: Meta's Threads is a major incumbent alternative social platform that increasingly intersects with the decentralized social space via ActivityPub federation plans. It represents the kind of well-funded incumbent Eurosky must contend with to reach European mainstream users.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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