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We want to hear YOUR feelings about the new Trump administration - on VIDEO!

Use the link below to record a brief selfie video with YOUR personal experiences and feelings. No signup/install required. You can also view everyone else's videos - SO FUN!

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Revealed: gambling firms secretly sharing users’ data with Facebook without permission Betting companies secretly track visitors to their sites before sending data to parent company Meta

Hmm, maybe we should find an alternative to Facebook? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Yes, Joinable should definitely be able to help you guys stay connected! I use it with my family in Europe.

All good! Thanks for checking it out! So… we pivoted away from IRL meetups a few months ago (too hard!) but haven’t updated the docs yet. We’ll get on it!

Yeah, I'm getting like a dozen a day or so. I'm hoping it will level out when I block them. But just blocking them all is a lot of work #bots #bluesky

Once we have that in place, you’ll be able to sign into Joinable with your blue sky account and vice versa, and you’ll be able to update your profile on either location.

However, I’ve been researching the AT protocol, and I really like it. We will be moving Joinable onto it soon!

When you are microblogging, do you want to reach as many interested followers as possible, but when you are sharing pictures of your kids, you only want them to go to your close friends, or a very specific group of parents, for example.

It’s a great question! I think about it all the time. The truth is that we created Joinable before we knew about blue sky, but now that I’m using them both, I can see that the network architecture are fundamentally different.

Threads post by Mark Zuckerberg: "Now you can make your custom feeds public and follow feeds made by your favorite people on Threads!" Screenshot shows the process of creating a feed.

Mark Zuckerberg has invented Bluesky

Is anyone talking about the bot problem on BlueSky? I'm pretty sure that none of the fashion models messaging me "Hello!" in the screenshot are real. #bots #bluesky

This is why we built Joinable. It has all 4 of these properties. joinable.us

(Oh I thought of another one!) 4. The ability to create private groups and share content there. Humans have symmetric friendships and group participation, and both are part of our real social behavior. BlueSky doesn't support groups at present.

3. Focus the sharing and viewing of posts toward rich media: photos, videos, audio, files, whatever. You could do a photo dump of your trip or a video of your kid on BlueSky, but it wouldn't be a great experience.

2. Precisely control the visibility of your posts, so you know exactly who they are going to. This allows you to share much more, to be more authentic - and yes vulnerable - which is how real relationships are built and strengthened.

1. Symmetric "friend connections" instead of asymmetric "follows". Human friendship is symmetric: both people must opt into real friendship. And this changes the structure of the network so that when you post and comment you're doing so with small groups of people you actually know.

BlueSky is awesome ❤️ but BlueSky will not meet all of our social networking needs. In the past we used Twitter for some purposes and Instagram/Facebook for others. The "friend network" we need to replace Insta/FB has three key properties that BlueSky doesn't:

BTW, I will change the permission requests in the next version we release (in roughly a week).

Totally agree. Stack is flutter/graphql/nodejs/mongodb. Happy to chat about the tech.

Hey thanks for checking it out. We want to serve our users (not the other way around) so (1) it will work well without giving permission, and (2) we may want to remove this request. It was there because originally we allowed you to see nearby posts when the author made them public. Thoughts?

Hi Mopolis! We have built an independent, human-centered alternative to FB/Instagram called Joinable. Please consider joining and moving groups there for authentic, private connection & sharing. Analogy: Bluesky:Twitter as Joinable:Facebook. We're in all the app stores. #joinable jnbl.us/app

Hi Menno, we have also built an independent, human-centered alternative to FB/Instagram called Joinable. Please consider joining and moving groups there for authentic, private connection & sharing. Analogy: Bluesky:Twitter as Joinable:Facebook. We're in all the app stores. #joinable jnbl.us/app

Hi Bruno, we have built an independent, human-centered alternative to FB/Instagram called Joinable. Please consider joining and moving groups there for authentic, private connection & sharing. Analogy: Bluesky:Twitter as Joinable:Facebook. We're in all the app stores. #joinable jnbl.us/app

I'm not Canadian (spent every summer there tho!) but we have built an independent, human-centered alternative to FB/Insta called Joinable. Please consider joining for authentic, private connection & sharing. -> Bluesky:Twitter as Joinable:Facebook. We're in all the app stores. #joinable jnbl.us/app

Are you still on Facebook Groups? If so, we invite you to try Joinable: a free, independent, and private alternative. joinable.us

Joinable now supports PHOTO DUMPS so you can share all your photos with friends after the party or other event - and more! Version 4.15.9 is in the App Stores, check it out! jnbl.us/app

Let's do this! @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social DM me if you want collaborators.

What do you mean? Right now employees have no way to get to build friendships or community with others. (other than a Slack channel called "fun" or "afterwork".) Joinable gives them a way to see authentic posts from their coworkers, and get to know each other. They have no way to do that today!

How’s this for a GTM strategy? Offer Joinable to employers, schools, clubs, and other organizations that are trying to build community. Help them set up a private circle, and get their members to start posting as a way to get to know each other on a much more authentic personal level. Thoughts?

It’s live in the AppStores now! Version 4.15.9!