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
Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges
A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.
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
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower
We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...
Moats & Drawbridges - augment
In a world obsessed with moats, the open social web drops drawbridges
About Networked Improvement Communities (NICs)
Visit the Doug Engelbart Institute to explore his remarkable legacy and all it inspires (official site)
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
The Drawbridges Go Up
The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.
Our Networks
Conference about the past, present, and future of building our own network infrastructures.
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
