Location is everything when you’re trying to meet people.
The Difficulty Of Private Contact Discovery
Building a social network is not easy. Social networks have value proportional to their size, so participants aren’t motivated to join new social networks which aren’t already large. It’s a paradox where if people haven’t already joined, people aren’t motivated to join. The trouble is that whi...
Avoiding Walled Gardens on the Internet
I occasionally get requests to join private social networking sites, like LinkedIn or Facebook. I always politely decline. I understand the appeal of private social networking, and I mean no disrespect to the people who send invites. But it’s just not for me. I feel very strongly that we
You have more ways to connect than ever, but deep friendship feels hard to find – here’s how to build better connections
Despite being more connected than any previous generation, many young people report struggling to build friendships that provide a genuine sense of closeness.
Friends of Backyard Habitats - greater Portland, OR area | I did a...
One alternative too -- if you know who you want in your feed, you can make a list and that can turn into a feed for you, and then others can 'pin to home' your list so it shows up for them as a feed...
Bluesky launches a privacy-focused 'Find Friends' feature without invite spam | TechCrunch
The Bluesky contact-matching feature is opt-in and your data won't be used to spam your friends, the social network says.
Wednesday Night Pizza Club
People spend 20 hours less a month with friends than they used to. But you can change that.
The Missing Piece: How Location Data is Coming to the AT Protocol - Building on atproto
A deep dive into community-driven geolocation schemas, emerging projects, and the future of location-aware social networking on Bluesky
TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
TownSquare adds a small shared place to your website where visitors can see each other, walk around, and chat.
Find Your Friends on Bluesky - Bluesky
We're introducing Find Friends — a contact import feature that makes it easy to find people you know on Bluesky without compromising your privacy.
The Missing Piece: How Location Data is Coming to the AT Protocol
A deep dive into community-driven geolocation schemas, emerging projects, and the future of location-aware social networking on Bluesky
How to make a friend fast — the scientific method
Believe-it-or-not, we actually know exactly how to create friendships in the lab!
we have an idea for communities in the app that we're calling "spaces" — places where people can gather around shared interests or social groups. here's a peek at some early prototypes. these are explorations, not polished or final. looking for feedback, esp from community builders 👀
alex benzer
the bsky team is working on various ideas for creating smaller social spaces in the app. which use case is most interesting to you? 1. posting into "topics" that organize public posts 2. posting into "communities" or "groups" that can be public or private 3. posting directly to your followers only
We need to put together an Atproto hostel/couch-surfing network so more people can journey to meetups like this
Eli Mallon
These days where I wake up in Portland and catch the 6:45am train back to Seattle make me feel superhuman. I’ve done like a whole journey, taken time to have lunch with my wife, and it’s NOON?
Shipped a new thing on @airglow.run: social graph sync 🔄 Pick the apps you use (Bluesky, @tangled.org, @sifa.id, @grain.social, @semble.so), turn it on, and your follows stay identical everywhere. Follow someone on one app, you follow them on the others too
