39C3 Interoperability and the Digital Markets Act: collecting experiences from the community https://media.fsfe.org/videos/watch/2b2ed621-3385-4fbb-94ed-695430acc344 Original: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-lightning-talks-tag-2 License CC-BY Webpage: https://fsfe.org/activities/deviceneutrality/interop-survey Survey: https://survey.fsfe.org/index.php/699938?lang=en The Digital Markets Act promises a new right to interoperability, but its real value depends on whether developers and communities can actually use it. For Free Software projects, interoperability is not only a market issue but a precondition for community-led innovation and user autonomy. This lightning talk introduces the FSFE’s DMA Interoperability Survey, a community-driven effort to collect developers’ shared experiences of requesting interoperability under Article 6(7) of the DMA. By amplifying these voices, the survey helps turn individual struggles into collective evidence that can support effective enforcement and fairer digital ecosystems. Free Software communities rely on interoperability to collaborate, innovate, and offer users meaningful alternatives to dominant platforms. While the DMA establishes a legal right to request interoperability from gatekeepers, early experiences show that exercising this right can be complex, resource-intensive, and discouraging, especially for volunteer-driven and not-for-profit projects. This lightning talk presents the FSFE’s DMA Interoperability Survey as a tool for community participation and mutual support. The survey enables developers to document their experiences, share common obstacles, and make visible patterns of behaviour that no single project could demonstrate alone. It turns scattered, individual interactions with gatekeepers into a collective picture of how interoperability works in practice. By centring community knowledge and lived experience, the talk argues that effective DMA enforcement depends on active engagement from developers and Free Software communities themselves. Interoperability is not enforced only in courtrooms or regulatory offices, but also through shared documentation, solidarity, and sustained community input that helps ensure the DMA delivers real freedom to build, modify, and share software across platforms. Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:23:12 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.teckids.org 39C3 Interoperability and the Digital Markets Act: collecting experiences from the community https://tube.teckids.org/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://media.fsfe.org/videos/watch/2b2ed621-3385-4fbb-94ed-695430acc344 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.teckids.org/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder. <![CDATA[39C3 Interoperability and the Digital Markets Act: collecting experiences from the community - Carl (He/Him)]]> https://tube.teckids.org/w/6khfe9xzuJ3NydPrHDDb2J;threadId=13164 https://tube.teckids.org/w/6khfe9xzuJ3NydPrHDDb2J;threadId=13164 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:56:39 GMT @fsfe You've asked for feedback. I'm sorry if this is too negative.

90% of the time, when you promote a video (like the threadstarter here) I not only don't know if I want to watch it, I don't even know what it's about. Reading the tags ... sort of maybe helps? Not in this case, but sometimes. There's no thumbnail, by the way, at least on mstdn.party, just a white rectangle with a play button. It reduces the impact, IMO.

]]> Carl (He/Him) <![CDATA[39C3 Interoperability and the Digital Markets Act: collecting experiences from the community - sometimes christopher]]> https://tube.teckids.org/w/6khfe9xzuJ3NydPrHDDb2J;threadId=13127 https://tube.teckids.org/w/6khfe9xzuJ3NydPrHDDb2J;threadId=13127 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:32:21 GMT @fsfe @dario omg! such a good lightning talk! fitting DMA into 5 minutes is godlike :D

]]> sometimes christopher <![CDATA[39C3 Interoperability and the Digital Markets Act: collecting experiences from the community - 🌈 Lascapi ⁂]]> https://tube.teckids.org/w/6khfe9xzuJ3NydPrHDDb2J;threadId=13075 https://tube.teckids.org/w/6khfe9xzuJ3NydPrHDDb2J;threadId=13075 Tue, 06 Jan 2026 11:38:39 GMT Thank you @dario and all the @fsfe for your work!

]]> 🌈 Lascapi ⁂ <![CDATA[39C3 Interoperability and the Digital Markets Act: collecting experiences from the community - leckse]]> https://tube.teckids.org/w/6khfe9xzuJ3NydPrHDDb2J;threadId=13126 https://tube.teckids.org/w/6khfe9xzuJ3NydPrHDDb2J;threadId=13126 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 13:52:28 GMT @fsfe 6(7)!

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