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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 9h

@grant_h @skaverat I am the WORST at naming so I am steering clear, I would suggest something ultra-dorky like "Account Sets" or "Community Clusters" that no one would love.

Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11h

One last thing! Starter packs are a *really* good way to help whole communities (of practice or interest) move from one network to another without losing their whole history of connection and conviviality, and I think that's been quite successful at Bsky—it helped a lot of communities make the […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12h

The thing I had most hoped would happen on the feature-design side is that fediverse systems and ATProto systems would learn from each other and I think this is a good example of that actually taking place.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 12h

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose.

I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14h

@stefan Thank you!! I will be so happy to have them out of my brain and into the world where they can bother other people instead 😅

Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14h

It’s me, stumbling around the kitchen (my ghost install) trying to find the coffee (my ability to write words about networks in this wild year).

Which is to say: Still here, still hammering away on a lot of things. Still don’t know what will happen! […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Vital, highly condensed, very well prioritized stuff on why the open social web matters so much—and how it can help people do the necessary work of society in our very rough moment—from @ben at #fediforum. The keynote is being recorded and I'm so glad, because I will be recommending it widely.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · Jun 24

The new Brandee Younger album is so, so good. Life-sustaining vibes.

https://brandeeyounger.lnk.to/GadaboutSeason

Brandee Younger - Gadabout Season

Listen to Gadabout Season by Brandee Younger.

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Bonfire @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 5

🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate has landed!

Curious about what the fediverse could look like with real community control?

Try out features like custom feeds, nested discussions, shared profiles, circles, and boundary-based permissions — then let us know what breaks or needs improvement […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 24

@CassandraVert If you read the rest of the multi-post thread, it will probably be easier to understand what I'm saying.

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

Oh and we don't have a list of volunteers (who are okay being on a list!) yet but huge props to @beep and @meetar for making this beautiful web home for us.

We're bringing in volunteers slowly so we can get folks connected up with tasks and it's already WILD how good and plugged in the new(er) […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

(Unbreaking needs a Mastodon account…somewhere. We'll figure it out! So many things to figure out, but that's the work.)

Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

To answer an FAQ: We're all-volunteer, and no one's funding us except…us.

We'll need to seek a little bit of funding to keep things running, but we decided to build first and look for money when we need to stabilize the full-time humans, and we'll be fully transparent about that if/when it […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

We've been live for about ten days and a couple of update cycles, and we just updated Medicaid and Trans Healthcare to reflect the grisly provisions in the House bill that passed yesterday morning.

We have a LONG list of pages in progress or planned, but sustainability is central to our work […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

Trans Healthcare: https://unbreaking.org/issues/transgender-healthcare/

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

Medicaid: https://unbreaking.org/issues/medicaid/

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

Turns out some old (and new) friends were feeling the same way, so we got a crew together from the Old Days and we spun up a collective, got fiscal hosting with Raft Foundation (badasses!), and spent a couple of months building processes and testing ways to work and things to make, and now we're […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

Medicaid: https://unbreaking.org/issues/medicaid/

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

I started fretting/posting about this in January and blogged about it in February:

https://erinkissane.com/against-entropy

I hoped, then, that an existing org would pick up the hammer and MAKE THE THING that I thought needs making, but no one quite did. Hundreds of people are tracking data […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

I don't think it's possible to be where we are in #uspol (and in the global authoritarian slide) without our information ecosystems being such a mess.

There's a ton of work to do on the distribution side of the problem, but also on the info-making side: Even great newsrooms aren't built to make […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 23

The day I most look forward to the whole year is the day the first Salmonberry bird/Swainson’s thrush arrives in our woods, and this year that day was today.

No one’s recording gets them quite right, it’s the most beautiful sound in the world […]

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 17

@thisismissem Whee!!

Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 17

@erin Yay, thank you so much! I would love to ask you some questions next week, on the comms channel of your preference!

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 17

Do I know anyone here who knows a lot about deploying a Loomio instance and would be willing to talk to me about it?

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · May 11

Anyone reading this yet? https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/29/one-brief-shining-moment-rise-and-fall-of-the-second-american-republic/

One Brief Shining Moment | Adam Hochschild

In the sweltering days of early July 1913, more than 50,000 men gathered for a most unusual reunion. To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of

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