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.

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.

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