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Anuj Ahooja

@quillmatiq.com

🗣️ People, Not Platforms 🌐 Building: @anew.social, @disperse.social ✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink 👥 Organizing: @seattle.atprotocol.community

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brendan@schlage.town · 23h ago

yep! switch to @leaflet.pub & break the cycle! (or anywhere else: pckt, Offprint, Ghost, Buttondown, lots of good alternatives — tbf none a perfect replacement, we have our work cut out to fully replace, but: here it is *possible* and we're well on our way!)

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com · 6d ago

We're literally watching Substack writers realize they're getting more "followers" (closed) than "subscribers" (open) and worried about the future *again*. I think it's worth breaking that cycle more so than it is to build the next thing.

pckt.blog@pckt.blog · 23h ago

mini survey time ! 🗳️ we’re working on a redesign to make pckt feel less cluttered and more minimal. we’ve got two questions: is there anything you never use or feel like you could do without? which tools do you use the most?

Leaflet@leaflet.pub · yesterday

Leaflet is the new† Substack‡, you heard it here first folks! ✍️ 🍃 💸 †not just new — better — b/c no platform lock-in, great Bluesky integration…and now, monetization too! ‡actually even bigger than that; not just us but a whole open ecosystem replacing Substack! here if you have any q's!

Piloting paid memberships for the open social web!

Lab Notes 035: building monetization features for Leaflet creators, starting with paid memberships — tell us if you'd like to be the first to try, and what else you need!

lab.leaflet.pub

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com · 2d ago

I keep saying "we need bridges", and people are like "we don't need bridges" until they're like "wait, it would be nice if these bridged", and then I'm like "I know, we have bridges" and they're like "wow, these bridges are cool"

Anuj Ahooja@quillmatiq.com · 2d ago

Couldn't agree more. That's why we made that happen a few months ago!

Long-Form Comes To Bridgy Fed

Up until now, Bridgy Fed has only supported the bridging of microblogging content. Even when we bridged articles from the web or from Article types in ActivityPub, ATProtocol-based microblogs would on...

blog.anew.social

Dave Winer@scripting.com · 2d ago

I wrote this yesterday about how I want to hook RSS up to standard.site. I'd love to see my posts on their feed reader, and vice versa. scripting.com/2026/08/02.h...

Taking some time off to breathe and regain perspective. Fixed a few bugs, and wrote about the big picture on demo.rss.chat. I really want to get a project going to peer with standard.site apps running in AT Proto, both ways, from us to them, and from them to us, via RSS. We can peer with them because as far as I can tell they implement "textcasting". This bridge would demonstrate something important. When something interesting shows up not based entirely on web standards, we're flexible if the attraction is strong enough. This is how the internet came to be. Our systems are prepared to create bridges. And unlike bridging between systems that have different ideas of what text is, which are basically hopeless, if we agree that the web standard for text is fine for writers and reader, better than the ridiculous limits imposed by twitter-like systems. Writing on the web has been crippled since Twitter, now let's start building it back up. That's the appeal of standard.site, they are working toward the same goal. We should work together.
Ryan@snarfed.org · 2d ago

Much of my career boils down to: All code is liability. Minimize it. Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more. We're bad at predicting the future. Avoid it. More tests. Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way. Find the right thing to turn off and on again.

Protocols for Publishers@protocolsforpublishers.com · 2d ago

An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026. protocolsforpublishers.com/mike-masnick...

Mike Masnick on protocols for publishers

An interview with @masnick.com (of TechDirt), the author of the influential 2019 paper "Protocols, Not Platforms," reflecting on how his ideas apply to publishers in 2026.

protocolsforpublishers.com