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Anuj Ahooja
@quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy
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🗣️ People, Not Platforms
🌐 Building @ anew.social
✍🏼 Writing @ augment.ink

🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://threads.net/@quillmatiq/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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I'm so grateful to @shnarfed for giving me a chance to partner with him on @anewsocialweb.

I still can't believe he decided to say yes after the wild essays I sent him over email about all the great things we can do with Bridgy Fed.

What an amazing year. We're just getting started 🚀
#Fediverse […]
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December 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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Really excited to be included in this round of Bluesky grants!

We're among an incredible group of builders who are working hard at decentralizing the protocol away from a single entity, and it's an honor to be among them 🫶🏼
#Fediverse Threads

RE […]
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November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Really excited to be included in this round of Bluesky grants!

We're among an incredible group of builders who are working hard at decentralizing the protocol away from a single entity, and it's an honor to be among them 🫶🏼
#Fediverse Threads

RE […]
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November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Seems really bad, man
#Meta
1. Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. 2. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." 3. Meta recognised that optimising its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. 4. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act. 5. In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn’t say that child safety was his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse.” Zuckerberg also shot down or ignored requests by Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, to better fund child safety work.
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Bonfire is probably the most versatile social platform out there, and I'm so excited that we get to work with them on bridging and migrations. The team has some really innovative ideas up their sleeve. Stay tuned!
#Fediverse Threads

RE: https://www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post/DQ7s7fgEocq
A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads
Last week Bonfire Social, a brand new ActivityPub-based platform, launched their first release and a fundraiser for their exciting roadmap 🔥 A part of that roadmap includes teaming up with us to bring Bridgy Fed and Bounce to Bonfire users! Learn more about our partnership in our latest blog post: https://blog.anew.social/bonfire-a-new-social/
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November 11, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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My N̶e̶i̶g̶h̶b̶o̶r̶ Partner Totoro
#Halloween
My partner in a Totoro onsie
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Writing about why the existence of Bounce is so personal for me, and it's been tough to relive memories of the communities I've lost.

The web is a beautiful place, but it's always at risk of being stolen from us. I feel so fortunate to be a part of a coalition of builders + users fighting for […]
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October 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Gimmie a sec, screenshotting every Ghost Post for the memories
#Ghost Post
October 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Really excited to roll out Bounce Beta 2 today! Now you can migrate your Mastodon account to any existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or any other ATProto account 🚀
#Fediverse Threads

RE: https://www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post/DQCsPTQgRnF
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And we're live! Starting today, you can use Bounce to migrate from Mastodon to an existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or any other ATProto account! Check it out: https://blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-now-live-2/
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October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Happy Diwali 🪔
#Diwali
My partner and I dressed in Indian clothing for Diwali. Her in a purple sari, me in a yellow kurta
October 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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We're launching Mastodon to Bluesky/Blacksky/etc migrations next week!

If you're interested in trying it before the rollout, reach out - we're looking for testers.
#Fediverse Threads

RE: https://www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post/DPjekutkjHW
A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads
Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider! We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th. Read more here: https://blog.anew.social/bounce-mastodon-to-bluesky/
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October 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Some personal news: I was accepted into News Creator Corps' 2025 Trusted Creators training fellowship.

The program focuses on skill sharing and community building, and I'll get to hear and learn from some of the best in digital media (which is super dope).

Mama […]

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Photo by Rush on October 08, 2025. May be a graphic of 1 person, poster, magazine and text that says 'news creator corps Trusted Creators Fall 2025 Class N David Rushing'.
October 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Soon, you'll be able to Bounce from Mastodon to ATProto 🌐
#Fediverse Threads

RE: https://www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post/DPjekutkjHW
A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads
Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider! We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th. Read more here: https://blog.anew.social/bounce-mastodon-to-bluesky/
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October 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Yes it’s true, AltStore is joining the Fediverse 🥳

Developers can now federate apps, updates, and news alerts to the open social web via our custom Mastodon server, and all likes, boosts, and comments will appear natively in AltStore.

We plan to release this officially soon — but you can check […]
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October 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I'm officially running my Bsky account on my own personal server 😌🌐
#Fediverse Threads
screenshot from pdsls.dev showing my repo migration from bsky's enoki.us-east PDS to my own pds.quillmatiq.com PDS
October 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Hell yeah 🔥
#Fediverse Threads
shubhankar-91.threads.net.ap.brid.gy Shubhankar Srivastava @shubhankar-91.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · Oct 3
We now support Fediverse sharing of long form text attachment
#Fediverse Threads

Long form text attachment will now be federated. Let me know if you see any issue.
October 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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👀
#Fediverse Threads

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10/8
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October 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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This is the key that makes ATProto such a winner for data ownership.

You own the data. The apps, platforms, and services that everyone uses only augment it.

You get to choose where your source of truth lives. Everything else is just distribution.
#Fediverse Threads
This has deep implications for the lifecycle of products. If a product gets shut down, the data doesn’t disappear. It’s still in its users’ repos. Someone can build a replacement that makes this data comes back to life. Someone can build a new product that incorporates some of that data, or lets users choose what to import. Someone can build an alternative projection of existing data—a forked product.
September 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Paramount+ now with HBO Max, formerly known as Max, formerly known as HBO Max (important: this version didn't have Discovery+ and CNN+ content, those were still separate services), formerly known as HBO Now, formerly known as HBO Go

RE: https://www.threads.com/@wsj/post/DOeHE2IiF4F
The Wall Street Journal (@wsj) on Threads
Exclusive: Paramount Skydance is preparing a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that is backed by the Ellison family.
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September 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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@shnarfed and I sat down with @wedistributemedia on the Decentered podcast! In the first half we talk about all the work we're doing at @anewsocialweb with Bridgy Fed and Bounce. Then, in the second half, Sean lets me rave about all the exciting work happening in the open social web.

It's a […]
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September 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Happy Expensive Infomercial Day to all those who celebrate
#AppleEvent
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Hard disagree. Not only does this not distribute in every standard way available, they also don't properly link inside the text attachment (shown in the QT of a @jherskowitz post I've attached in the reply).

This is a lock-in mechanism and doesn't help with any work you do outside of Threads […]
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September 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Everything's Jira
September 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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On the open social web, you don't have to wait for a trillion-dollar corporation to decide when you get an app optimized for your favorite device

RE: https://www.threads.com/@techmeme/post/DOJXxwTCtIR
Techmeme (@techmeme) on Threads
Meta launches an Instagram app for the iPad, 15 years after its mobile app; it is slightly different than the mobile app, opening directly to a feed of Reels (Mia Sato/The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/news/769460/instagram-ipad-app-launch-reels http://www.techmeme.com/250903/p29#a250903p29
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September 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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We're ramping up our funding efforts at @anewsocialweb to ensure we can run Bridgy Fed and Bounce for the long run.

As a non-profit, we want to be as community-funded as possible, so we're focusing on ways to make that easier.

A quick thread about where we're at in terms of funds: (1/3)🧵 […]
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September 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM