april fools day reminds me of how my mom never once caught on to my yearly “i’m getting suspended” calls from boarding school. i wonder if she really was that gullible or if she was just playing along bc she loved joking around with me. she made everything feel fun & lighter. missing her a lot today

You can tell what kind of person @devingaffney.com is by looking at his reaction to offers from users to support him and @graze.social in times of distress: he shares that support with his (also affected) competitors.

Small companies showing up to standards work matters. Graze made that possible for me last November in Montreal. Looking back on it now.

Looking back at some of the work I did with Graze Social. First up is AIP. Really proud of this one.

Really proud to collaborate with these people, and help point towards positive-sum cooperative competition in open social

casual reminder that @graze.social has the best branding in the entire game, and its not even close www.graze.social/blog/the-sto...

Folks have been reaching out about how to support Graze beyond our core product. We think that support needs to go beyond Graze. That's why we've teamed up with our direct competitors @skyfeed.app and @blueskyfeedcreator.com to jointly support all our work:

had to double check to make sure this wasn't a vic berger edit

This is where I’ve landed. Obviously sherlocking happens all the time. Business is business. But doing it this way harms everything.

I just donated, and you should consider chipping in if you can too. Graze is an awesome tool, and an even more awesome team. If you enjoy the ML feeds I set up, that’s all thanks to Graze!

Submitted my talk proposal to @localfirstconf.com! How can communities outlast the platforms they use?

Having spoken to the developer community at the event: it’s not about the AI, it’s about suckerpunching a team at a community event. bsky.app/profile/rica...

I will not be at the #AtmosphereConf this year 😭😭 -- in fact, I'll be out of the office until April 5 (after this weekend!) But I REALLY WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU IF YOU'RE GOING AND ARE BUILDING NEW AND INTERESTING THINGS. Dm or Germ or Signal or email me with any news! (Links on profile.)

The Custom Oregon Plate SOFTIE was available, but is now reserved. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #SOFTIE

Getting increasingly pumped for the conference and excited about the slides @ellieonline.bsky.social and I cooked up

I'm deeply satisfied with the feeds I've built over the last year, and I wouldn't have been able to without the people I met at Graze. When we talk about dismantling the "walled gardens" of modern social media, building more communities like the one at @graze.social is what we all should envision.

I think it's important to recognize one of the most valuable elements for building effective algorithms within a decentralized social media platform. Community. What makes apps like @graze.social such powerful community tools for ATproto isn't the tools or interface, but the people behind it. 🧵

"social platforms shouldn't choose your feed" check out @graze.social to take back control! absolutely electric speech @devingaffney.com thank u for all u do!

@devingaffney.com’s work is hands down the best. @graze.social Speaking truth to power!

eating homemade tacos and watching @devingaffney.com crush his talk about everything @graze.social has accomplished this year (spoiler, it's a lot!) 🐮 #atmosphereconf

The @graze.social team and @devingaffney.com are some of the very best people I’ve ever had the privilege of working with when it comes to support, and I want them to know that there are so many stories of companies getting sherlocked & becoming MORE successful and I KNOW that’s their story. 💜💜

Speaking of other tools you can use to build custom feeds on Bluesky and ATProto:

A legend. @devingaffney.com @graze.social

Damn. @devingaffney.com just gave an incredible talk at the Atmosphere Conference. If you missed it watch the video.

For clarity, this is a @graze.social feature, and it's cool as heck! You can make any of your feeds remix-able like this by toggling a setting in your feed preferences.

He wore pants so you know he’s serious

Read all about it on Bluesky, the everything app

Fun fact, the gate-shaped brooch she is wearing is called a "Holloway Brooch". They were made to commemorate the Suffragists’ Incarceration at Holloway Prison. The center design is a broad prisoner's arrow and is rendered in green, violet, and white (GWV = "give women votes").

You're seeing this because this feed runs on @graze.social, where we believe social media can still do good. NPR/PBS just lost $1.1B - let's prove it together and raise money for a worthy cause. #promoted

Big news! Graze now connects with Patreon so you can give your members special access to your feeds. We’re kicking this off with two new capabilities: Sponsor Free Feeds and Members Only Feeds. Giving your patrons extras on Bluesky is now super simple. Check it out at graze.social.

just lying here thinking about all the cute pigeons i’ve seen this week and how many cute pigeons are in my future like the ones i’ll see tmrw and the others i’ll rescue and take care of in the garden at my lil cottage, that’s all

visiting @betaworks.com this week has been a blast

britney mic activated, we’re ready for demo day

We've been given an amazing opportunity with our round of funding to build out the next generation of the social web. Today, we're starting an experiment in paying that forward. Introducing Graze Grants, a project to help get other ATProto projects off the ground.