Kind of cool that on a day that the site is celebrating democracy, the AT protocol community is at IETF helping to form shared governance for the specs!

Remotely attending the ATProto IETF BoF meeting bright and early this morning! #ietf124

He won with joy and strong principles. Even when they used who he was as an attack, he smiled and stood for what he knew was right. This is the way.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115492635409809971 Today, we're taking our first step into the moderation tools we've been wanting to build for Bridgy Fed for a while now. The reason we're launching this small iteration first is that: (1) it's recently become more urgent for our […]

Fediverse Report 141 - this week's #fediverse news Mastodon is working towards making one of the longstanding pain points of the fediverse a thing of the past, with the new ability to show all replies to a post. Bonfire is making strides with their Open Science Network platform, and Ghost is […]

In this week's issue of Web Technology News (WTN), my weekly Ghost newsletter, I comment on Vercel's recent experiments running a full Next.js application inside ChatGPT (I spoke to Vercel's Andrew Qu for The New Stack about this). I also look at OpenAI's OWL architecture for the Atlas browser […]

IFTAS Connect is being decommissioned today 😢 I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who participated, contributed resources, and helped build a shared understanding of moderation and safety in federated systems. I am still full-time, IFTAS isn't […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

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@quillmatiq Agree there are lots of special circumstances with Meta products. What I'm trying to figure out is what the actual "market size" for non-addictive social media is. We know kinda what it is for traditional social media -- about half of the humans on the planet. For non-addictive […]

1/7 I'm excited to share something I've been working on since April: build.ms/ai. It began when @[email protected] came over to my house and I told him I could teach him enough about AI to build his app idea in three hours. We didn't *quite* finish, but […] [Original post on macaw.social]

Writing about why the existence of Bounce is so personal for me, and it's been tough to relive memories of the communities I've lost. The web is a beautiful place, but it's always at risk of being stolen from us. I feel so fortunate to be a part of a coalition of builders + users fighting for it.

There is a need for better moderation systems on the fediverse. But getting people to coordinate to build and adopt such systems is proving to be a challenge. https://connectedplaces.online/on-the-coordination-for-better-moderation-systems/

Mondays are tough, but Aesop Rock dropped a surprise album this morning so it's not all that bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC1bwuV985I

Fediverse Report 139 - this week's #fediverse news: - on how the environment and context in which the fediverse, bluesky and the open social web exist is changing and getting more intertwined with politics - some thoughts on the recent FediForum keynote by @ben#fediverse- new #activitypub projects being […]

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Our latest podcast is a bit different. Not only does @kini convince @paige to wear even stupider glasses, we chatted with a number of champs at @fedicon about the industrial policy of #Canada and the opportunity to grow something strong and free in our homeland. @dawn @julian @quillmatiq @j12t#Canada[…]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115408038242562551 Really excited to roll out Bounce Beta 2 today! Now you can migrate your Mastodon account to any existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or any other ATProto account 🚀

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115408038242562551 Really excited to roll out Bounce Beta 2 today! Now you can migrate your Mastodon account to any existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or any other ATProto account 🚀

Happy Diwali 🪔

im getting back to atproto writing again! slowly catching up with the backlog with @teal.fm , the For You feed, fandom culture on atproto and more

This was a great convo. Now you know what I really think about big tech and "Open_Internet_v2.0."

Just Bounced! and that was awesome! 🤯🤩 I've finally consolidated my open social web presence. My Hachyderm account on Mastodon is no more, but now I'm connected my followers here :) Thanks @anew.social, @quillmatiq.com, and @snarfed.org!

Last week I was delighted to give a keynote talk to open #fediforum, the conference about building the open social web. It's about the real threats we're facing, why open alternatives matter so much right now - and the questions we can ask ourselves to make our work really matter […]

Fediverse Report 138 - this week's #fediverse news - a closer look at the Tumblr-like platform Wafrn, which connects to both #activitypub and #atproto. Their latest update allows people to migrate their #bluesky account to wafrn, joining the fediverse while staying connected to their bluesky […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115339394542781414 We're launching Mastodon to Bluesky/Blacksky/etc migrations next week! If you're interested in trying it before the rollout, reach out - we're looking for testers.

It's Canadian Thanksgiving, so we made some poutine 🍟 🇨🇦

Oh hey, new t-shirt. Thanks @anew.social!

I have a demo in about an hour from a nonprofit that reached to implement @badgefed for their credentials needs, wish me luck! #activitypub #fediverse

@quillmatiq and @snarfed.org Bounce has made my Fedi so awesome!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115339394542781414 Soon, you'll be able to Bounce from Mastodon to ATProto 🌐

Here’s my writeup of #FediForum (the openings at least). Loved the message of @ben’s keynote — everything big starts small — and I was impressed by the fedi products showcased: @altstore ( @rileytestut), Bounce ( @quillmatiq, @snarfed.org), Frequency ( @jesseplusplus), CrowdBucks ( @reiver#fediforum & […]

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#fediverseis getting Starter Packs, with […]

In other news:

### 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]

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 […]

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]

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/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115339394542781414 Soon, you'll be able to Bounce from Mastodon to ATProto 🌐

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! […]

Just downloaded this app, presented at #FediForum today by @jesseplusplus#fediforum Photo sharing without the bigco algorithms! https://frequency.app/@frequency/115327818938811236

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

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 […]

Less anger and assumptions, more conversation and curiosity

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

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 […]

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

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.

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 […]

fediverse report will be again on thursday this week so i can incorporate all the exciting #fediforum news and demos

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.