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   Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 01:36:35 JST Anil Dash

   This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/ and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: https://freeourfeeds.com/ These two moves together put the most credible players on solid ground for years to come — and set up the open platforms to enable lots of innovation just when it's needed most.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 01:53:35 JST Anil Dash

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     • 2xfo

     @RnDanger Because it's an open, interoperable platform with millions of users and interesting apps being built on top of it

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     2xfo (rndanger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 01:53:36 JST 2xfo

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     @anildash
     Why should we care about bluesky? I came here to get away from billionaires.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:39:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Magnus Ahltorp
     • spinbackwards

     @ahltorp @spinbackwards @anildash @RnDanger We have a great bridge, though!

     https://fed.brid.gy/

     It's run by A New Social https://anew.social/

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     spinbackwards (spinbackwards@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:39:29 JST spinbackwards

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     • 2xfo

     @anildash @RnDanger Does AT support ActivityPub?

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     Magnus Ahltorp (ahltorp@mastodon.nu)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 03:39:29 JST Magnus Ahltorp

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     • spinbackwards

     @spinbackwards @anildash @RnDanger No. It has to be bridged.

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     Toni Lawrence (tonilawrence51@me.dm)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 10:35:03 JST Toni Lawrence

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     @anildash Without independent writers who are not afraid to dig for the truth we as a society will not survive.

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     Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 03:41:59 JST Anil Dash

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     • Tim Bray

     @timbray yeah, I’m skeptical of that too. But I think planting a flag in the ground on the larger goals is interesting and useful, and the larger sense of there being many projects pushing these parallel goals forward is great.

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     Tim Bray (timbray@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 03:42:00 JST Tim Bray

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     @anildash I'm a little cynical about announcements of fundraising *targets* but still, the important take-away is that a lot of people have noticed that social networking as a commercial product really doesn’t have an interesting future, it’s time to build out alternatives.

     Tim Chambers repeated this.