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Anuj Ahooja

@quillmatiq.com

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🗣️ People, Not Platforms 🌐 Building: @anew.social ✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink 📸🎧☕: @pixels.quillmatiq.com

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · Nov 8

I wrote about the importance of tools that bring different platforms and protocols together and how I believe that's the future of an open social web owned by people, not platforms.

www.augment.ink/bridges-the-...

Bridges & The Last Network Effect

We don't have to enclose ourselves in walls of our own making or force users to understand the nuances of every platform and protocol. It's time to give people tools that empower them to make decision...

www.augment.ink

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Graze Social @graze.social · 14h

You can just do things, together

You can just do things, together - Graze Newsletter

How Skylight & Graze are working together to build the open social FYP

graze.leaflet.pub

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 13h

Lots!

Bookwyrm - Goodreads alternative
Pixelfed - IG alt
Loops - TikTok alt
PeerTube - YouTube alt
Lemmy - reddit alt
Ghost, WordPress - macroblogs
Bandwagon - Bandcamp alt

Lots of others, but these are some off the top

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 14h

@julian.activitypub.space.ap.brid.gy and I were just talking about bridging the threadiverse yesterday 😅 think we need to start getting more serious about it

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leaflet.pub @leaflet.pub · 16h

It's true we are now on @tangled.org, please like and subscribe! By which we mean: *star* and *follow*!

FYI very soon we'll be cleaning up the README, adding better documentation for contributors, and tagging some issues as `good-first-issue` for Tangled's October open source challenge :)

Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 18h

I can't even explain why I like @leaflet.pub so much but I really do, and now it's open source (on an open source open sourcing tool) and man that is cool

@leaflet.pub/leaflet

a tool for shared writing and social publishing

tangled.org

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 16h

Updated the AppViews explainer with a write-up on how AppViews (and the ATproto building blocks) compare to the current status quo in Fediverse software, and what issues they solve.

Shoutout and huge thank you to @thisismissem.social who helped me FINALLY, truly get it.

github.com/FujoWebDev/l...

A screenshot of the Decentralized (Federated) Software section of the article

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 2d

Soon, you'll be able to Bounce from Mastodon to ATProto 🌐

A New Social @anew.social · 2d

Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider!

We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th.

Read more here:

Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky

With our next Bounce Beta, you will be able to Bounce your Mastodon account to Bluesky!

blog.anew.social

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 15h

🚀🚀🚀

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · 16h

Cooking up an app-view 🧑🏾‍🍳

ASCII art at the Blacksky App View homepage

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 16h

"We can just do things" stickers?

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󠀁󠁿⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁢⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁢⁤⁤⁢⁤⁤⁤⁤⁤⁤⁤⁢⁢⁢⁢⁤⁢👻 @0x0.boo · 17h

Bluesky News App

Give it a try.

news.leaflet.pub

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Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com · 18h

I can't even explain why I like @leaflet.pub so much but I really do, and now it's open source (on an open source open sourcing tool) and man that is cool

@leaflet.pub/leaflet

a tool for shared writing and social publishing

tangled.org

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 18h

Why don't you want Meta to make you a better version of you, Sara? Don't you realize they know what's best for you?

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stellz @piss.beauty · 23h

"app stores bad" exhibit #5627492

Here’s how Apple is locking down iPhones to comply with Texas’ age verification law

Apple and Google will have to comply with laws in Texas, Utah, and Louisiana.

www.theverge.com

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 21h

Yeah, but that scene where he goes "it's tronin time" was pretty sick

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 21h

I'm so sad I missed this 😭 next time

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 21h

🙏🏼

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Ms Boba (rebuilding community era) @essentialrandom.bsky.social · 1d

"Only bluesky friends (or followers, or mutuals) can access pages on my personal blog" has been achieved internally

(in the example here: github.com/FujoWebDev/f...)

A page reading:

STRANGER, BEGONE!
Only friends are allowed on /secret/.
You essentialrandom.bsky.social, are NOT a friend.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 22h

How so? Status quo would be a user being blocked and the only way to see their posts / communicate with them is to use a tool like pdsls or RedDwarf. This is a pretty huge step forward toward real competition?

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 22h

Unless one AppView blocks a user, yes, they see each others users

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 22h

Hell yeah! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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hailey @hailey.at · 1d

everyone should be able to run one of these on their own. personal moderation really ran by you.

paul replying to me with a rude reply and being labeled as bad faith.

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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 1d

We've crossed 2k DAU on indie PDSes: #BlueskyStats

Daily users posting from non Bluesky PDSes, rising from ~600 in the winter/spring/summer to 1000 in August to 1400-1500 in September and over 2000 now

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Richard MacManus @ricmac.cybercultural.com · 1d

My report from FediForum. The products I mentioned are all fediverse ones, but I see the same promise in the AT Protocol apps I’ve seen. It’s all “open social web” and the key is to enbrace developers on both platforms. thenewstack.io/everything-b...

Everything Big Starts Small: Building Open Social Web Apps

There's a small but growing app movement on the open social web. At the latest FediForum virtual event, developers showed their wares.

thenewstack.io

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 1d

kermit the frog is wearing a black hoodie and kermit the frog is wearing a black hood .

Alt: evil kermit the frog wearing a black hood says "do it" looking at kermit

media.tenor.com

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.com · 1d

We buy Costco bags of these and finish them so fast. The lil scraps at the bottom work really well as a topping on congee as well.

I gotta go to Costco asap, brb.