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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Thanks @johannab for agreeing to stand for a director position at #CoSocialCa We need more members on the board with her -> consider self-nominating to serve. A quarterly meeting commitment + support the strategic direction of the co-op. More on the members forum […]

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23h

Thanks to those who volunteer in the Trust & Safety Working Group CoSocial member fees cover our infrastructure, but actually running the co-op is all volunteer, from finances to comms to new services. As a member, we need you to participate in the AGM on Oct 26th luma.com/4zrh63ba

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Mick 🇨🇦 @mick.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23h

CoSocial just passed our 1000th reported post! 🎉 Many thanks to our Trust and Safety crew for keeping our feeds clean of trolls, spam and bots. #CoSocialCa #fediverse

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

For #CoSocialCa members, the Annual General Meeting (AGM) is happening later this month. Please RSVP and check in on the members forum for more discussion.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@geesegoose and here’s the stickers I bought, posted to my Atmosphere account @bmann.ca fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/prof…

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Just met @geesegoose at the Papergoods Fest, today at Russian Hall until this afternoon. They have a lot of goose related merch so I bought a bunch, as well as explaining Atmosphere & the Goosetophers.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@cogdog yep Bridgy folks are great! Here’s my hosted-on-cosocial-PDS personal alt so you can see the pattern @boris.pds.cosocial.ca - it’s @ handle.com @ bsky.brid.gy

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@cogdog it did indeed, but Peter doesn’t have HIS account bridged. I poked him about it. I had a lovely open door dinner at Peter’s place the other week.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

As with all these posts, you’ll need to be a cosocial member in order to access. If you’re a non-member resident in Canada and want git hosting for your personal projects - become a member! join.cosocial.ca Just $50CAD annually, your first year includes buying a $10CAD co-op member share.

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Cooperative non-profit social media for Canada - CoSocial Community Cooperative

CoSocial, officially CoSocial Community Cooperative, is a member-owned organization with the purpose of providing democratically-run open social media.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I wrote a proposal in the #CoSocialCa members forum about making services we already run on @cloudron for general co-op operations. Git hosting (we run @gitea) is of interest to me personally. Any other members want Canadian git hosting & code collaboration? […]

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The French government has been building out a collection of open source apps for use by their public servants called LaSuite I have a test install running using atproto accounts for login. Check out my write up, and apply if you’d like to help test it blog.bmannconsulting.com/3mvtex2jcs…

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LaSuite Apps + Atmosphere Accounts - Boris Mann Tech Blog

The French government LaSuite apps connected with Login with Atmosphere OIDC

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: cosocial.ca/@coop/117304257857053771 Thanks @dawn for your work in pushing things forward and prepping for the AGM - a nice morning of coworking where I got email for the atproto PDS working and tinkered with the operator admin panel that @gov installed. Progress! And met @ansate […]

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 17/09/2026

Here it is—the final talk from our @localfirstconf.com Lab Day! After 10 years of Ink & Switch, Peter van Hardenberg @pvh.ca takes the long view. Why do we do research? Who does it serve? And what now, as the world gets weirder? How to Research Tools for Thought

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 15/09/2026

Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com Lab Day video. Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.

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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

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Boris @bmann.ca · 12/09/2026

📍 Tashkent Restaurant · 88 West Pender Street, Downtown 🌤️ 18°C Trying out Tashkent, an Uzbek halal place in the International Village Mall food court. We are sharing and ordered way too much. Manti beef dumplings… beaconbits.app/beacon/2cxgdrgtsmrbq… #BeaconBits

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/08/2026

Today we're officially sharing the "Introducing Patchwork-26" video from Lab Day at this year's @localfirstconf.com We bring you the first look at Patchwork-26, the latest in our ongoing effort to realize Malleable Software, Universal Version Control, and Local-First Software.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

A lovely excuse to learn some Australian slang as part of a write up of how Canada walked away from negotiating with Trump ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carney-ac…

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 21/08/2026

"it's kind of what I mean by cultural victory. There's one more piece that I heard about at @dweb Camp from @wakest talking about a federated events platform that was built in a squat in Italy and it has gotten adopted in the punk community and has a massive amount of events on it in Italy and […]

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

RE: cosocial.ca/@boris/1171308644483455… That would be @avi over here having built Solander - here’s a video solander38.com

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

RE: www.manton.org/2026/08/11/introduci… Manton from Micro.blog is now hosting an independent personal data server. We're having an show & tell for the #CoSocialCa working group about running a PDS in Canada luma.com/3mplrg3i

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Hello #CoSocialCa! @gov and I are hosting a show and tell of a beta service for members, an atproto PDS. We still have some docs to write and it is not ready for everyone to use, but we've done initial setup and are ready to share and take questions. More in the members forum […]

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

This is a blog run by a Japanese man living in America 1/2

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

AT-Communities #1: the Concierge, the Vault, and the Fuck-ass Astro Website www.essentialrandomness.com/posts/t…

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Ink & Switch @inkandswitch.com · 31/07/2026

We’re going to do some work on the Lab Day talks before we release them. In the meantime - all the Day 1 & 2 talks are up!

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

@liaizon @Jermolene I think we moved it to YouTube when we shut the Vimeo account, but I don’t have a link handy at the moment

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Picture that @evan took of me just before the panel I was moderating at #DWebCamp. Look at that big #CoSocialCa sticker!

Boris Mann with summer blue hat and blue shirt and shorts. Sitting in a chair holding a water bottle with many stickers - including cosocial.ca

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 09/07/2026

Goodmorning fedi, I just woke up in a windy tent in the middle of a field and sleepily scrolled thru all the opening talks at #DwebCamp to figure out what my first stop needs to be: def have to catch @cwebber, @dholms.at and @boris discuss the trade offs […] [Original post on social.wake.st]

Christine Lemmer Webber is lead author and co-editor of the W3C ActivityPub specification. Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, working on the AT Protocol specification at the IETF. Join us for a discussion on decentralization trade-offs and other design decisions in the two protocols, and what that means for different architectures, structures, and even future points of convergence.

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

How to easily add Standard.site support to your website mastrojs.github.io/blog/2026-06-05-…

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Hypha Worker Co-operative @hypha.coop · 02/06/2026

New report: Can Canadian co-operatives build and own their own AI infrastructure? We looked at the technical, financial, and market feasibility and found a viable path forward. The Canadian Solidarity Stack is out now.

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This study, produced by CanTrust Hosting Co-operative and Hypha Worker Co-operative with funding from Co-operators’ Co-operative Development Program, examines whether a genuinely co-operative alternat...

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Boris Mann @boris.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026

RE: techhub.social/@fedicon/11668831968… Hey #CoSocialCa - @fedicon is happening again this year in August in Vancouver as part of #fossy2026

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FediCon @fedicon.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

🎉 What if the Fediverse met... in real life? FediCon is a conference about the Fediverse and the Open Social Web. Talks, Demos, Lightning Talks, Panels and more. Come be part of a community gathering focused on the Fediverse, the Social Web, and the people building the future of open social […]

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