Anuj Ahooja

I hate this. It’s going through the motions of doing something very human and important; simulating the output when the remembering, the loving, the process of memorializing a person is the value of the thing.

Jesse Karmani and Anuj Ahooja wearing tops that say "People Not Platforms"

Shout-out to @jesseplusplus.bsky.social for repping @anew.social's People, Not Platforms merch at #Fedicon!

#SciFi #SciFiArt #AbandonedFuturism #ByReiver

How do accounts and storage for ATProto apps work?

I went back and actually finished writing the section of notes for my talk about how accounts & storage for ATProto apps work and wrote a little Leaflet about it.

A New Social - Merch Store A New Social Merch Shop

If you want to look as cool as us, you can snag some merch here: store.anew.social

Jesse Karmani and Anuj Ahooja wearing tops that say "People Not Platforms"

Shout-out to @jesseplusplus.bsky.social for repping @anew.social's People, Not Platforms merch at #Fedicon!

If you find yourself in Portland in a week or so and are in desperate need of a raven tote bag (who isn’t) head straight to Powell’s to snag one of these 🐦‍⬛💕

Walled gardens are killing the open web 🪴

Smoke Signal is different: MIT licensed, ATProtocol-based, your data stays YOURS

For the price of coffee, fight back → opencollective.com/atprotocolde...

@sprk.so's new branding is pretty banger

Questions to @quillmatiq about other apps and ecosystems and ends up mentioning Sprk (open video platform, longer than what Bsky supports), Roomy (Discord chat alternative), and Germ (e2ee messaging) on the #ATProto side

Anuj speaking, slide deck - For example, Accessible Power Tools ATP Internectional Airport

@quillmatiq shows some power tools, including Airport, the #ATProto account migrator

#FediCon

Anuj presenting - slide which shows closed networks IG, TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook And the open side are logos for Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, Pixelfed

Second speaker is @quillmatiq and he sets the stage about how this is about closed vs open, but goes on to talk about how fragmented the open side is.

#FediCon

I'm giving a talk at FediCon in Vancouver tomorrow. You can RSVP on Smoke Signal.

Yes, I am staging a post so I can put it in my talk! It's called Beyond Microblogging and I'm going to mostly talk about the joy of the ATmosphere.

Here is the FRIDAY schedule for FediCon 2025.

8:30am — Welcome Message
FediCon Organizers

9am (KEYNOTE) — Connecting the Social Web
@evan

[MORNING BREAK: 10am to 10:30am]

10:30am (TALK) — The Last Network Effect
@quillmatiq

11:30am (TALK) — From Millions to Billions: a Plausible Narrative […]

Curate your own newspaper with RSS Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.

Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

Infrastructure for Interdependence: Building technology in service of collective power [This document serves as a memo for investors]

What We're Building.

An illustration showing a number of forest animals sat around a bonfire. Over it, copy reads: Bonfire & Newsmast Foundation. Working together to grow the Open Social Web.

Newsmast × Bonfire

We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy
are working together!

#Announcement #SocialWeb #Fediverse

Moving off Substack definitely posed some technical challenges — they really don't want you to and they're making it harder every day. But I wouldn't go back. Even ignoring the perpetual edgelord drama over there, it's simply not a good enough platform to run a business. And it's way too expensive.

I would say spill the tea, but I believe they already did that for you

oprah winfrey is sitting on a couch with her eyes closed and making a funny face . Alt: oprah winfrey is sitting on a couch turn to the camera then gives a "I told you so" look

Don't mind me, just watching Substack writers who called people "self righteous" for saying it's a Nazi bar get a push notification from Substack telling them they're hanging at a Nazi bar

What if the real Artificial Intelligence was the podcast bros we found along the way?

What if the real Artificial Intelligence was the podcast bros we found along the way?

Technology | 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

@bsky.app overtaking X for desired AND admired community platform for devs!

I wish they'd stop making the blue-alien movies because I keep seeing Avatar in my feed only to get disappointed that it's not the good one

Me: Man, I'm so damn busy

Also me: I'd like to work on everything everywhere all at once

*sips drink*

Wow there's a lot of Nazis here here?

*sips drink*

Seems bad.

*pays bill*

See ya tomorrow!

Our plan is to build direct traffic to our site. and newsletters just one kind of direct traffic in the end. I don’t intend to ever rely on someone else’s distribution ever again ;)

I don't like I-told-you-so's, but a *lot* of people seemed to have told you so