A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.
Bridges & The Last Network Effect - augment
Bridges & The Last Network Effect
We're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of these, ahem, lapses of judgment are Threads, Bluesky, and Mastodon. What's particularly interesting about these three
Our Networks
Conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures.
Moats & Drawbridges - augment
In a world obsessed with moats, the open social web drops drawbridges
SplinterCon Taipei
Presentations recorded at the SplinterCon conference, 24.02.2025 The rise of network shutdowns and the proliferation of so-called “splinternets” pose significant challenges to the free flow of info...
Aaron Boodman on Twitter / X
There is this tension in dev tooling right now: Lots of people want to self-host, and not depend on a service. Lots of people also want the vibes of open source - being part of an open development community, having the code, etc.But builders still need to make a living...— Aaron Boodman (@aboodman) January 23, 2024
Bridges & scruples
For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved. Not all problems can be solved, but all problems can be illuminated. —Ursula Franklin
The Future is Ours to Build - Together
We’re pleased to introduce Mastodon’s new leadership team, and to share some other important updates.
Streets are made for talking: so that's what we did - Bridges For Communities
We’ve been trying something new at Bridges. Popping up on high streets and town centres in Bristol to talk to people about community life and the issues that are impacting […]
Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse
In a wide-ranging interview with Eugen Rochko, creator of the decentralized social network Mastodon, Rochko shared why Threads federation fell flat, why ActivityPub and ATProto will likely never merge, and what it will take to grow the fediverse.
Maybe the real moats are the drawbridges we'll build along the way? In my latest augment piece, I re-think "moats" for the open social web by seeing what @standard.site, @blackskyweb.xyz's Acorn, and bridges like @ap.brid.gy + @wafrn.net have done for the ecosystem.
Moats & Drawbridges
www.augment.inkBridging the Net
Building bridges, breaking down barriers. Creators are spread too thin between too many platforms - how can we take this work and make it more seamless and automatic so that creators can focus on creating, not playing the exposure and anti-suppression game....
Tynan Purdy (@tynanpurdy.com)
Jasper — Import Instagram photos to Grain
The Garden (by Paul Stephenson) — Semble
Sill
Ditch Platforms (by Tynan Purdy) — Semble
Lqm1/X-ActivityPub-Bridge
