byline.pub is now live in beta

A home for indie authors on the AT Protocol. Publish your work and become easier to discover across the open social web.

byline.pub is now live in beta

A home for indie authors on the AT Protocol. Publish your work and become easier to discover across the open social web.

Why I Built Byline.pub · The Butterfield Dispatch

Owning Your Books Beyond One Website

[Draft] Follow anyone — Open Indie

I just wanna keep track of people I care for and find interesting. The type of feed(s) available for subscription (blog, micro-blog, chat...

Early update on Arcadia publishing 2.0: Scientists are in charge, speed is an issue

Since starting v2 of our publishing model to restore scientist agency, pub “quality” has been similar, and this approach is more efficient overall. The major downside is that pubs take longer. We’re pursuing solutions to this and other problems but feel we’re on the right track.

Platforms, Power, Paywalls, and Podcasts

This edition of the newsletter is a bit of a catch-up on links since we have been busy with outreach to potential speakers, participants, and sponsors for the second in-person Protocols for Publishers ✨ event in Europe. The next PfP event looks to be in London, UK and we

Indie social sign-in could go mainstream — Open Indie

Back in June I wrote about an exciting confluence of digital auth tech: ### Social sign-in for indies The focal point of Weird Net...

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We believe open source is at the heart of innovation and community empowerment. The goose Discord is home to the goose OSS community. | 6280 members

crawshaw - 2018-07-30

This content covers my recent exploration of writing internet services, iOS apps, and macOS programs as an indie developer.

The nerds are building a new internet, and I could feel it in the room

The AT Protocol is a quiet attempt to rebuild social software the way email was built — open, portable, owned by no one. A meetup in Portland this week made the stakes feel real.