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Excited to announce that I’m teaming up with Anuj Ahooja on a new non-profit for the open social web, across protocols, with Bridgy Fed as its first main project! Introducing A New Social.

When I posted Possible futures for Bridgy Fed a while back, I was surprised and gratified by the outpouring of support. So many of you really believe in it and want it to survive, grow, and find a stable footing beyond the useful little one-person side project it is today.

Some people stepped up even further and said, “I’m willing to put the work in and actually help build, drive, and even lead this.” Anuj is one of those people. He’s a renaissance man who’s worked on the fediverse and open social web for many years at sub.club, Flipboard, and more. He’s written at length about the potential he sees in the open social web, across all sorts of networks – “people, not platforms!” – and how we have an opportunity now that we haven’t had in a long time.

And there are so many more of you, across the space, who’ve joined and committed to supporting us! We’re truly humbled and grateful. We’re still only at the very beginning, we have a lot of work to do, but we’re excited to get started. Wish us luck, and please reach out if you want to get involved!

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  6. Daniel Schildt

    Really good to see that your projects get a more solid supporting structure around them. Building blocks for better integrations between websites and social networks take time to build, and work you have done can essentially save a lot of time and money from other builders. Hopefully they see value.

  16. Rogue Ren

    Will there be a way to use bridgy fed with existing accounts on bsky+mastodon? I already have accounts on both

  18. Jay Stevens

    I’m a little confused – why is there a sign-up button? If this is an extension of BridgyFed, shouldn’t it just allow me to use my Bluesky account?

  21. Anuj Ahooja

    Once we’ve formed our BoD and finish the paperwork, we’ll have some options. Aiming for end of January!

    Thank you for asking 🙂

  23. Ryan

    Great question! The http://www.anew.social site is just a Ghost web site/blog/newsletter. It’ll use their built in ActivityPub support soon, and I expect we’ll bridge it into Bluesky too! But it’s mainly just for comms, not a primary project or focus.

  35. Arwen Spicer

    Oh thank God! Knowing nothing about how the code is actually going to work, if there is any way I can connect non-Dreamwidth users with my Dreamwidth, I would be living the dream. (But I know they use old legacy code.)

  44. luckysitsinback

    makes it easier or harder for investigators to find and follow the bad -very bad- guys ?
    i tend to perk up when it’s big crime, like Panama Papers …
    so thanks for posting such a lot to learn about.

  47. bsky.app

    Building bridges to bring us all together is the best work I can imagine. Thank you for taking on this enormous task!

  52. jenova.ai

    Congratulations on the new venture! As someone building in the open AI space (jenova ai), it’s exciting to see more projects pushing for an open, interoperable social web. Will be following your work with great interest.

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