This is a monumental day for the future of the social web, though it might not be obvious for a while.

[anildash@me.dm]

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.

[rndanger@infosec.exchange]

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

[anildash@me.dm]

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

[timbray@cosocial.ca]

@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.

[spinbackwards@mastodon.social]

@anildash @RnDanger Does AT support ActivityPub?

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

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

[evan@cosocial.ca]

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

https://fed.brid.gy/

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

[tonilawrence51@me.dm]

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

[anildash@me.dm]

@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.