After we’ve been aware of the fediverse and intending to make a mastodon account for many months, it took us hosting an event about “Reclaiming digital communication spaces” to actually make it happen.

Yesterday and today the 7th “Cross Movement Open Space” took place in #Vienna. The format invites representatives of local CSOs to meet and discuss a topic that’s currently relevant to their work. We’ve been organising it regularly for the past 3 years and this time around we were asking: 

How can we strengthen our digital sovereignty?
Should we say goodbye to big tech?

Over two days around 40 participants were discussing, workshoping, discovering and skillsharing around these questions. On the afternoon of day 2 some of the participants offered a “practical tips and tricks for starting your mastodon account”-session. One of our team members was there and got us on here. We are excited to have arrived and very greatful to @cypherhippie and @totientfunction for hyping the #opensocialweb and sharing so much of their wisdom and experience with us

picture: the session were we made this account!

#NeuHier #Wien #Zivilgesellschaft #civilsociety #openspace #Vienna