Anuj Ahooja
@quillmatiq.com
🗣️ People, Not Platforms
🌐 Building: @anew.social
✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink
📸🎧☕: @pixels.quillmatiq.com
🌐 Building: @anew.social
✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink
📸🎧☕: @pixels.quillmatiq.com
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Anuj Ahooja
@quillmatiq.com
· Nov 8
Bridges & The Last Network Effect
We don't have to enclose ourselves in walls of our own making or force users to understand the nuances of every platform and protocol. It's time to give people tools that empower them to make decision...
www.augment.ink
I wrote about the importance of tools that bring different platforms and protocols together and how I believe that's the future of an open social web owned by people, not platforms.
www.augment.ink/bridges-the-...
www.augment.ink/bridges-the-...
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When someone asks why I keep working on the open social web when normal users don't care about protocols
![An image from the 2021 movie Dune.
- The image shows a person (specifically, the Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, played by Charlotte Rampling) with a net-like veil over their face.
- An overlaid caption reads: [Our plans are measured in centuries], a quote from the character in the film.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xgvzy7ni6ig6ievcbls5jaxe/bafkreiexwkrww2tt4ww6rlgs2q3drqfvhbv5zqqtlftiw6jv543jxyekw4@jpeg)
December 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
When someone asks why I keep working on the open social web when normal users don't care about protocols
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Looks like we're back now. Huge thanks to @hailey.at @calabro.io @pfrazee.com @bnewbold.net for helping to get the relay unstuck!
December 30, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Looks like we're back now. Huge thanks to @hailey.at @calabro.io @pfrazee.com @bnewbold.net for helping to get the relay unstuck!
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me and @pfrazee.com trying to figure out how to fix the relay
December 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
me and @pfrazee.com trying to figure out how to fix the relay
He's unhappy that he had to poop in -17C weather
December 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
He's unhappy that he had to poop in -17C weather
You could be happier. You could be eating hummus.
December 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
You could be happier. You could be eating hummus.
When someone asks why I keep working on the open social web when normal users don't care about protocols
December 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
When someone asks why I keep working on the open social web when normal users don't care about protocols
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If you're in the #ATProtocol space and contribute to applications and SDKs, have a hobby project, self-host services, or experiment and tinker in the ATmosphere, consider submitting a proposal to share your experience.
forms.atprotocol.community/r/wAVDkk
forms.atprotocol.community/r/wAVDkk
ATmosphere Conference 2026: Call for Proposals
Submit your talk proposals and come join us March 2026 in Vancouver, Canada.
forms.atprotocol.community
December 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
If you're in the #ATProtocol space and contribute to applications and SDKs, have a hobby project, self-host services, or experiment and tinker in the ATmosphere, consider submitting a proposal to share your experience.
forms.atprotocol.community/r/wAVDkk
forms.atprotocol.community/r/wAVDkk
I was naive but now I am not naive, they even wrote in the paper that I said lies all the time that I am not naive
December 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I was naive but now I am not naive, they even wrote in the paper that I said lies all the time that I am not naive
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With centralized social media platforms, users can only push for change by lobbying companies or governments.
@jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, explains why open social is about giving people the tools to build solutions themselves, rather than just asking for them.
Ep with @rabble.nz, out now.
@jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, explains why open social is about giving people the tools to build solutions themselves, rather than just asking for them.
Ep with @rabble.nz, out now.
December 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
With centralized social media platforms, users can only push for change by lobbying companies or governments.
@jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, explains why open social is about giving people the tools to build solutions themselves, rather than just asking for them.
Ep with @rabble.nz, out now.
@jay.bsky.team, CEO of @bsky.app, explains why open social is about giving people the tools to build solutions themselves, rather than just asking for them.
Ep with @rabble.nz, out now.
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You may have seen in the tech memesphere that Rob Pike is furious that he received an email from a poorly-designed AI agent complimenting his work
I’d just like to say, what goes around comes around
Not tagging him 🙃
I’d just like to say, what goes around comes around
Not tagging him 🙃
Also the site of the hilarious 1989 practical joke in which Rob Pike and Dennis Ritchie pranked their boss, Nobel Prize winner Arno Penzias, into thinking they had invented an AI with the help of Penn & Teller
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxMK...
Penn and Teller's Lab Scam
YouTube video by catvorg
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:49 PM
You may have seen in the tech memesphere that Rob Pike is furious that he received an email from a poorly-designed AI agent complimenting his work
I’d just like to say, what goes around comes around
Not tagging him 🙃
I’d just like to say, what goes around comes around
Not tagging him 🙃
The people who kept building the future others told them is impossible
What gave you courage in 2025?
December 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The people who kept building the future others told them is impossible
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absolute massive announcement holy shit. payments?? one-click pds hosting??? COOK
December 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
absolute massive announcement holy shit. payments?? one-click pds hosting??? COOK
Don't think you should be allowed to call yourself a first world country unless bidets come standard
December 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Don't think you should be allowed to call yourself a first world country unless bidets come standard
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It's Boxing Day, post your walk out song 🥊
Hanumankind, Kalmi - Hanumankind – Big Dawgs | Prod. Kalmi (Official Music Video) | Def Jam India
YouTube video by HanumankindVEVO
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's Boxing Day, post your walk out song 🥊
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It is surprising to me that none of the major platforms have actual _parental control_ features so that we can limit the amount of time that our parents can spend online, and which apps they’re allowed to use. I don’t worry about my teenager’s use of the internet at all, just my octogenarian dad’s.
December 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It is surprising to me that none of the major platforms have actual _parental control_ features so that we can limit the amount of time that our parents can spend online, and which apps they’re allowed to use. I don’t worry about my teenager’s use of the internet at all, just my octogenarian dad’s.
It's Boxing Day, post your walk out song 🥊
Hanumankind, Kalmi - Hanumankind – Big Dawgs | Prod. Kalmi (Official Music Video) | Def Jam India
YouTube video by HanumankindVEVO
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
It's Boxing Day, post your walk out song 🥊
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i've made one x post, first one in over a year, guess what for?
if you're new here and want to know more about how the platform works, the great features like custom feeds and labelers, securing your data away from bsky the company, and using other apps with only ONE account, im here to chat!
if you're new here and want to know more about how the platform works, the great features like custom feeds and labelers, securing your data away from bsky the company, and using other apps with only ONE account, im here to chat!
December 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
i've made one x post, first one in over a year, guess what for?
if you're new here and want to know more about how the platform works, the great features like custom feeds and labelers, securing your data away from bsky the company, and using other apps with only ONE account, im here to chat!
if you're new here and want to know more about how the platform works, the great features like custom feeds and labelers, securing your data away from bsky the company, and using other apps with only ONE account, im here to chat!
I think this may be my favorite @mkbhd.com video ever, so well done
I shrunk down into an M5 chip
YouTube video by Marques Brownlee
youtube.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I think this may be my favorite @mkbhd.com video ever, so well done
The only thing I'm rvturn about is the Nexus 5/7/9 generation of Google devices
every positive post about bell labs' plan 9 on here is exclusively from burnt out reactionary software engineers. retvrn type posting and some of them acknowledge this openly
in 2025 I think nostalgia for a false past is pretty easy to associate with a specific political form
in 2025 I think nostalgia for a false past is pretty easy to associate with a specific political form
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The only thing I'm rvturn about is the Nexus 5/7/9 generation of Google devices
"I can't believe a third-party did it better than Bsky" is the wrong take bc that's the whole point of Bsky and ATProto.
More of this. Build better than what's been built.
More of this. Build better than what's been built.
December 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
"I can't believe a third-party did it better than Bsky" is the wrong take bc that's the whole point of Bsky and ATProto.
More of this. Build better than what's been built.
More of this. Build better than what's been built.
Good news, y'all - we had a Christmas feast 😋
December 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Good news, y'all - we had a Christmas feast 😋
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[katseye voice] jingle bells (gnarly)
December 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
[katseye voice] jingle bells (gnarly)