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Anuj Ahooja
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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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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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My N̶e̶i̶g̶h̶b̶o̶r̶ Partner Totoro
#Halloween
My partner in a Totoro onsie
October 31, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Spent this weekend offline to be with family and friends and eat a copious amount of food. 10/10, would recommend.
A lit sparkler in the night A box of Indian sweets of varying colors
October 20, 2025 at 3:14 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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First Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky ✅ https://bsky.app/profile/teon.bsky.social/post/3m36mxq7zks25
#Fediverse Threads
Photo by Anuj Ahooja on October 14, 2025. May be a Twitter screenshot of trampoline and text that says 'Teon @teon.bsky.social Just Bounced! and that was awesome! awesome! ' finally consolidated my open social web presence. My Hachyderm account on Mastodon is no more, but now I'm connected my followers here :) Thanks @anew.social, @quillmatiq.com, and @snarfed.org! Bounce Doos Blog Code Issues Logout WARNING: Bounce is stiN n beta testing. Migration is irreversible! Expect bugs and rough edges. Don'y use any accounts you depend on. (et.) Success! You've migrated with @teon@hachyderm.iot to Congratulations! teon.bsky.social. Docs Blog Code IsSuEALT ALT'.
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 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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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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Meanwhile, Netflix
September 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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August 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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I got to chat with @shortformernie about how the combo of Bounce & Bridgy Fed is an exit strategy that can help users preserve their communities and relationships in worst-case scenarios like the one in Mississippi yesterday.

We build tools like these at […]

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Excerpt from Ernie's piece: "I asked Anuj Ahooja, the CEO and executive director of A New Social, a nonprofit working to build distributed social technology that works across protocols, what he thought of this situation. He says this moment could be an opportunity to “to decouple peoples’ networks from platforms.” “When platforms make decisions that have an impact on peoples’ livelihood, whether forced or not, people should be able to escape without having to leave their communities behind,” he says."
August 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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"With that money?"
August 16, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Had a blast at the DWeb Seattle Gathering last night! I got to present about cross-protocol interoperability and how developers should be thinking about building for people, not platforms, on the wider open social web.

Lots of great questions and conversations […]

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Photo by Anuj Ahooja on June 19, 2025. May be an image of 3 people and text. Photo by Anuj Ahooja on June 19, 2025. May be an image of 1 person, screen, projector and text. Photo by Anuj Ahooja on June 19, 2025. May be an image of 3 people, people studying and text.
June 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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We're also really close to launching an easy way for federated Threads users to bridge their accounts over to Bluesky, so keep an eye out for that 👀

Until then, you can bridge yourself by following @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy if you don't want to wait for that!
bridgy fed setting page including login options for bluesky, mastodon, pixelfed, and threads
June 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Me seeing all the reviewers post pics and videos of their Switch 2s
A boy frowning in three pictures. Captions read: Pic 1: congrats Pic 2: happy for you Pic 3: nice
June 5, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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June 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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On vibe coding:
Photo by Anuj Ahooja on June 01, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'more curated. I want it to be easier for more folks to write code and understand how the software they use every day works. But software isn't just writing code. It's about learning good architecture: how data is accessed, how it flows, and, most importantly, who can access it and when. You can't just vibe your way through personal information and payment systems, because an issue there isn't just a bug; it has real-life consequences for average users who are entrusting you with their information. The tech industry attempted "Move Fast.'.
June 1, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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The vibe-coding trend is going to end up being one of the biggest national security risks we've seen in the software industry

RE: https://www.threads.com/@semafor/post/DKPyvbItzvJ
The employee at AI coding assistant company Replit who wrote the report, reviewed by Semafor, says he and a colleague scanned 1,645 Lovable-created web apps that were featured on the company’s site. Of those, 170 allowed anyone to access information about the site’s users, including names, email addresses, financial information and secret API keys for AI services that would allow would-be hackers to run up charges billed to Lovable’s customers.
May 31, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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🗣️ PEOPLE, NOT PLATFORMS

So excited to finally drop our first batch of merch! We've been asked by so many people to throw our motto onto *all the things*, so we hope you love them as much as we do!

I've been wearing my hoodie literally everywhere.

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An image of various merch labeled with PEOPLE, NOT PLATFORMS. Top left: a can-shaped glass with cold brew in it Top middle: a woman wearing a maroon long-sleeve tee Top right: a laptop with a sticker on it Bottom left: a man wearing a grey sweatshirt Bottom middle: an white insulated to-go mug Bottom left: a black hoodie
May 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Obligatory AMinorrrrr
May 18, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Went to go see Kendrick & SZA last night. Open air concert with pouring rain, and we all stuck it through.

Seattle built different 💪🏼
Kendrick and SZA on stage at Lumen Field in Seattle last night
May 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Me watching the app store duopoly finally start to crumble
left: a cartoon of a man wearing a black shirt that say "sickos" with a speech bubble saying "yes...ha ha ha...yes!" with the second "yes" underlinedright: a pile of articles about apple losing control of their app store. - 'cook chose poorly' how apple blew up its control over the app store- a judge just blew up apple's control of the app store- patreon will update its iphone app to sidestep apple's payment system- epic is offering developers an alternative to apple's in-app purchases- spotify's iphone app now lets you pay how you want- stripe already ha a way for ios developers to dodge apple' payment system
May 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Realizing that my aesthetic is slowly turning into "loudly open social web" and not sure how I feel about it (I feel pretty good)
Left: a black t-shirt by Bluesky that says "mundus sine caesaribus" or "a world without Caesars" Right: a black hoodie by A New Social that says "people not platforms"
April 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Looks like @ghost just added the switch that federates your blogs/newsletters to @bluesky_social via Bridgy Fed and Threads via Fediverse Threads!
The Ghost ActivityPub dashboard with federation switches for Threads and Bluesky, the latter of which uses Bridgy Fed
April 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Working on some @anewsocialweb merch 👀
Close up of a hoodie with the text "People not platforms" along with "a new social" under it
April 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Bluesky just dropped verification, but decentralized.

Love their take on a feature that's pay-to-play and pay-to-win on most competing platforms 👏🏼
Post by Bluesky on Bluesky. Post says "We’re introducing a new layer of verification on Bluesky — a user-friendly, easily recognizable blue check.In addition to account verification issued by Bluesky, we're also introducing Trusted Verifiers. Select independent organizations can verify accounts directly." Under it, an image is attached that shows a white bluesky logo (silhouette of a butterfly) inside a blue circle pointing to a white checkmark in a blue scalloped circle pointing to a white checkmark inside a blue circle.
April 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM