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Blog from the Modal Collective
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Announcing Sovereign Tech Agency Investment in Flatpak
https://modal.cx/blog/announcing-flatpak-sta/
Published: August 27, 2026 10:00
We are excited to announce a significant investment of €508,640 by the German Sovereign Tech Agency, through its Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) initiative, into the development and stewardship of Flatpak. This two-year initiative, co-organized by Modal and with…
Image-Based for Developers
https://modal.cx/blog/image-based-for-developers/
Published: July 5, 2026 10:00
In recent years there has been a lot of experimentation with image-based distribution formats across the Linux ecosystem, from servers and containers, to apps and the operating system itself. The advantages in terms of both robustness and security are…
Reflection Spring Update
https://modal.cx/blog/reflection-spring-update/
Published: April 22, 2026 10:00
Our goal with Reflection is not just to build one local-first GTK app, but to create the conditions for other app developers to add local-first sync to their apps as well. To enable that we need easy-to-use APIs, but also developer outreach, education, and…
Towards a Sovereign Mobile Stack
https://modal.cx/blog/sovereign-mobile-stack/
Published: February 25, 2026 16:00
Recently we’ve seen a growing interest in “digital sovereignty” in European policy circles, both at the EU level and nationally in countries like Germany and France. While there are different interpretations as to what this means in practice, there does…
Reflection Winter Update
https://modal.cx/blog/reflection-winter-update/
Published: December 24, 2025 18:11
One of our goals for the Prototypefund project period was to blog more, but for various reasons that didn’t quite work out as intended. We gave a lot of talks at in-person events (GUADEC, OpenAlt, Boiling The Ocean, etc.), but never quite managed to write…
What is Modal?
https://modal.cx/blog/what-is-modal/
Published: December 3, 2025 18:11
We live in uncertain times. Over the past years we’ve seen long-established institutions erode, and new threats appear at an alarming rate. Former worst-case, nightmare scenarios like people being prosecuted for abortions based on their Facebook chats (or…