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Anuj Ahooja
@quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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🗣️ People, Not Platforms 🌐 Building @ anew.social ✍🏼 Writing @ augment.ink 📸🎧☕ pixelfed.social/quillmatiq 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 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.

https://www.augment.ink/bridges-the-last-network-effect/
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Connected Places @fediversereport.com · 1h
Fediverse Report 137 - this week's #fediverse news

- @altstore joins the fediverse, and you can interact with apps on the alternative iOS app store now via your fediverse accounts. Altstore also made a 500k USD donation to various fediverse platforms
- @Mastodon is getting Starter Packs, with […]
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19h
In other news:
GitHub Invitation: You've been invited to the IETF OAuth Working Group organization!
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Fedify: ActivityPub server framework @fedify.hollo.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
### Announcement: AltStore becomes a financial contributor to Fedify

We're thrilled to announce that AltStore has become a financial contributor to Fedify! This generous support comes as part of AltStore's broader commitment to strengthening the open social web […]

[Original post on hollo.social]
Email notification from Open Collective showing AltStore has become a new financial contributor to Fedify as a corporate sponsor with a $500.00 monthly contribution. The email includes the Open Collective logo, information about AltStore with a link to their Open Collective page, and details about the sponsorship tier and amount.
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20h
I may have just broken the minds of ActivityPub developers at #fediforum, but the question I posed was "what happens if we do this differently? What other ways of building the Fediverse are there? Why are we building monolithic applications?"

The first half of the session was very much so an […]
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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23h
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 […]

[Original post on mas.to]
Firstly, it's important to us that users have control over whether they appear in Packs on Mastodon. Early design explorations with our concept of Packs led us to the following possibilities: • Packs will become an extension of discovery. Users who wish to opt out entirely from Packs will be able to do so by disabling the existing setting, labelled "Feature profile and posts in discovery algorithms". This will signal that an account cannot be added to a Pack. • Users will be notified when they are included in a Pack. Unlike on Bluesky, where users wishing to remove themselves from a Starter Pack must either report the Starter Pack, or block the user, users on Mastodon will have a more neutral mechanism to remove themselves from a Pack they do not wish to be part of. (note: we implemented something similar with the Quote Posts feature, where an original post can be removed from a quote post; this same idea would flow through to Packs).
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Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h
Bounce introduces a tool to move your Mastodon account to Bluesky https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/bounces-new-version-will-let-users-move-from-mastodon-to-bluesky/
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@ufal We migrate your Mastodon account *into* Bridgy Fed. No need for the Mastodon or Bsky account to already be bridged!
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
If you're interested in testing this out early, feel free to reach out!
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115339394542781414

Soon, you'll be able to Bounce from Mastodon to ATProto 🌐
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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 1d
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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Richard MacManus @ricmac.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Just downloaded this app, presented at #fediforum today by @jesseplusplus. Photo sharing without the bigco algorithms!
https://frequency.app/@frequency/115327818938811236
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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
This is some rad shit.

Go #fediverse ! (and alternative app stores!)

https://www.theverge.com/news/795173/altstore-alternative-ios-iphone-app-store-more-countries-fediverse-social-web
Testut also says that AltStore is making a big push into the fediverse by using the ActivityPub protocol to "federate apps, app updates, and news alerts from AltStore to the open social web." Here's how that will work, according to Testut: Each AltStore source will receive its own ActivityPub account, which can then be followed by any other open social web account. You'll be able to like, boost, and reply to everything, and most importantly all these interactions will appear natively in AltStore. In other words, you'll be able to comment on an app on Mastodon, like a news update on Threads, then open AltStore and view all these same interactions in-app. The AltStore team is working with Mastodon gGmbH to "manage a custom Mastodon server on our behalf" (it's available in beta now) and with the non-profit A New Social to support Bluesky using the Bridgy Fed tool. The fediverse features will come to AltStore PAL in "the next few months," Testut says.
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115333718702902290

So hype about this partnership with @altstore.io!

@rileytestut and @shanegillio truly walk the walk, and we've been fans for a long time, so we were more than excited to build this bridge with them.

With Bridgy Fed, the AltStore is […]
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
We're all just a bunch of strangers being introduced via short little notes appearing on people's feeds at random, and it so quickly devolves into stereotyping and jabbing at people's perceived insecurities
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Less anger and assumptions, more conversation and curiosity
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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d
I've mentioned briefly that I was to co-lead the ActivityPub API taskforce, however, I've come to the decision to step down from that and focus my energy elsewhere:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Oct/0013.html

#activitypub
Stepping down from the ActivityPub API Taskforce from Emelia S. on 2025-10-07 ([email protected] from October 2025)
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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Update:

Spam accounts continue to be created and volunteers are flagging them as we find them.

Roughly 80% of observed accounts have been taken down, and the observed usernames list is being updated daily (see above for link).

If you see a report for an account you believe to be a false […]
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Tim Chambers @tchambers.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
I am a fan of starter packs on BlueSky, Threads and Mastodon's iterations on it are all for the better in my book.

My one note: i'm pretty sure from my read of it that this offering and this #FEP will be fediverse-wide and not Mastodon-only. Which makes it even cooler, if so […]
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Matthias Pfefferle @pfefferle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
RE: https://openchannels.fm/how-decentralized-social-platforms-grew-from-identica-to-modern-day-mastodon/

I chatted with @evan about the good old days of the #fediverse ☺️

#ostatus #activitypub #statusnet #identica #openmicroblogging #wordpress
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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 2d
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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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
You can learn more about @altstore's entry into the open social web here: https://rileytestut.com/blog/2025/10/07/evolving-altstore-pal/
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115333718702902290

So hype about this partnership with @altstore.io!

@rileytestut and @shanegillio truly walk the walk, and we've been fans for a long time, so we were more than excited to build this bridge with them.

With Bridgy Fed, the AltStore is […]
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Connected Places @fediversereport.com · 2d
fediverse report will be again on thursday this week so i can incorporate all the exciting #fediforum news and demos
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Anca @anca.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 2d
We're getting started with @fediforum today.

It's nice to be among people working to openly distribute knowledge and resources instead of fostering consolidation and enshittification.
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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
@ben kicking off @fediforum with his keynote!
Ben Werdmuller at FediForum in a Zoom call. On the right is his camera, on the left is a slide that says "The Stakes are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now"
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