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Roundabout @roundabout.town · 11/08/2026
Hi Bluesky! We’re the team making Roundabout, an app built to help people live a flourishing life in their local town or neighborhood. Find resources, connect with neighbors, celebrate your community.
Graphic design with the word "ROUNDABOUT" in large white letters on a brown horizontal band. The background features a terrazzo-like pattern with scattered irregular shapes in yellow, brown, gray, and light blue on a cream-colored base.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 06/08/2026
Only 25 folks needed to open up DC for free gifting amongst neighbors off of billionaire-owned platforms. You can do it!
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 31/07/2026
We’ve had some map rendering issues earlier today. All fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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gifthood.org @gifthood.org · 27/07/2026
Some good news: the team at @bsky.app just awarded Gifthood a $2,000 AT Protocol grant. Thank you, sincerely. It means a lot that the people building the open network believe in what we're trying to do to build stronger connections among neighbors.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 26/07/2026
New on Gifthood: turn on email under Notification settings, and we’ll let you know when someone raises a hand on your listing, when you get a message you haven’t seen yet, or when you receive a daily digest of new nearby listings. gifthood.org/releases/2.3...
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v2.34.0 — What's new — Gifthood
Email, for when you're not looking at Gifthood — turn on email under Notification settings and we'll let you know when someone raises a hand on your listing, when you get a message you haven't seen ye...
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 23/07/2026
Gifthood was just upgraded to a new, shiny, beautiful basemap, courtesy of maptoolkit.org.
Screenshot of the gifthood.community web app in a browser, showing a two-column layout. The left column is a listings feed with a top nav (Nearby, Activity, My posts, Messages), a location selector reading "Mississippi · Portland, OR," and a Post button. Filter controls include All, Offers, Requests, Borrow, a Hide categories dropdown, a ~5 km radius selector, and a Newest sort. Under the heading "From neighbors you follow" are four offer cards, each with a photo, an OFFER label, an Available status pill, a title, neighborhood and distance details, a category tag, and the poster's name: "Headphones and speaker" (Arbor Lodge, ~3 km, Electronics, Jacob Hoopes), "Pokemon cards" (Mississippi, <1 km, Hobbies & Crafts, RalphBo), "Universal license plate mount" (Tools & Hardware, RalphBo), and "Minecraft lamp" (Baby & Kids, RalphBo).

The right column shows a new light-toned street basemap of north and northeast Portland, Oregon, rendered by Maptoolkit with OpenStreetMap data. Neighborhood labels such as Portsmouth, Kenton, Arbor Lodge, Overlook, Boise, Alameda, Pearl District, and Buckman are visible, along with the Willamette and Columbia rivers and highlighted freeways. Several dashed rectangles with colored dots mark approximate listing locations rather than exact addresses. A "Drag to explore" button floats at the top of the map.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 22/07/2026
Web push notifications are available. On desktop for all browsers. On iOS you have to add Gifthood to your home screen and you are good to go.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 21/07/2026
New on gifthood.community: Blazing-fast image serving. Is video next? Not... yet. 🚀
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 20/07/2026
Email notifications. Yay or nay?
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gifthood.org @gifthood.org · 20/07/2026
The first ladder is available to neighbors for lending: gifthood.community/listing/did:...
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Little Giant Leveler 17 Ladder
Lending in Mississippi · Portland, OR — An adjustable leg ladder, perfect for uneven ground or work on stairs. If you are in the neighborhood, you can borrow it for the day. Follow all safety…
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 15/07/2026
I have received a Gifthood member report that desktop push notifications are not working in the Brave browser. This is a Brave browser privacy feature. If you would like to receive push notifications, you have to turn on "Use Google services for push messaging" under Privacy and security.
Brave Browser's "Privacy and security" settings page. A magenta arrow and text reading "This needs to be toggled on" point to the "Use Google services for push messaging" option, which is currently switched off.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 14/07/2026
I just added a little bit more privacy shielding. You can now elect to have your content not show up on the public-facing surfaces. Only logged-in users will be able to see your profile and listings.
A privacy setting card under a 'PRIVACY' section heading. The setting is titled 'Discourage apps from showing my account to logged-out users,' with description text reading: 'gifthood won't show your profile, listings, hands, or notes to visitors who aren't signed in. Other apps may not honor this request. This does not make your account private.' A toggle switch on the right is in the off position.
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Tim Trautmann @timtrautmann.com · 14/07/2026
Good morning, Portland, and happy Roundabout Southeast Portland launch day to all who celebrate! /cc @newpublic.org southeastpdx.roundabout.town
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pureschmaltz.bsky.social @pureschmaltz.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This Prosperity Story considers how liberating Freely giving away can be. Prosperity: Freely Find the rest of this Story on my PureSchmaltz Blog: www.projectcommunity.com/PureSchmaltz... Or, find it in my PureSchmaltz Substack Library: davidschmaltz.substack.com/p/prosperity...
This Prosperity Story considers how liberating Freely giving away can be.

Prosperity: Freely 

"… liberating everyone involved."

Prosperity increases the possibility of simply giving stuff away. Once I’d accumulated plenty, I occasionally exceeded my ability to properly appreciate and maintain some of my previously precious possessions. What I had seen as essentials sometimes became more like burdens. An occasional yard sale balanced this scale, where my Prosperity translated into an ability to make somebody a really great deal on something they needed much more than I did. The Muse and I eventually abandoned the usual pretext for conducting such sales and dispensed with putting price tags on anything, explaining to anyone who stopped to browse that everything was going for the same low price: Free! Not even that price guaranteed that everything found a new home, but we completely eliminated the commercial hassle usually associated with such undertakings. When we relocated from Maryland to Colorado, we gave away the larder refrigerator and the hide-a-bed in the basement mother-in-law rooms. We felt instantly lighter when we passed those burdens into somebody else’s delighted care.

Yesterday, I finally managed to give away a patio table that had been gathering grime in what was originally intended as a flowerbed beneath the sideyard's enormous Snowball hedge.  ...
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 13/07/2026
Good morning. Notifications have gotten a bit of a sprucing up, as we say around here 🌲. You now have fine-grained control over what the app may bug you with and what should go unnotified. Find it under Settings → Notification Settings
Gifthood.community notification settings page. A 'Notify me on this device' toggle is off, while a master 'Allow notifications' toggle is on. Below it, individual toggles for Messages, Interest in your listings, New followers, Notes on your listings, Exchange updates, and New listings nearby are all on. A distance selector for nearby listings is set to 'Same as my feed (within ~5 km),' with options for ~1.2 km and ~5 km.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 11/07/2026
You can also now check Gifthood uptime and server status right here: stats.uptimerobot.com/g3nvn9C3B3 We are too poor/cheap to pay for uptimerobot.com. Maybe someday you will get a nice URL, etc. This will do for now.
stats.uptimerobot.com
Status page
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 11/07/2026
Today was deployment hardening day. Which, incidentally, also now automatically unlocks direct messaging (we encrypt messages at rest) whenever the server or hypervisor reboots. messaging: UNLOCKED — last unlock 2026-07-11T18:29:14.324Z (source: kms). 🥳
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gifthood.org @gifthood.org · 11/07/2026
Congratulations to @brittanyellich.com on her first month at Bluesky. Gifthood is actively (as time allows) participating in Atmospheric Groups on Atproto, as I feel this will be an important aspect for many future participants in a healthy mutual aid platform that Gifthood strives to become.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 10/07/2026
Congratulations, @toni.bsky.team, all the best wishes for this next phase. I just blushed a little bit seeing the nice gifthood.community shoutout in your post. Thank you. 🙏🏻❤️
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 09/07/2026
Speaking of which. Our cloud provider, OVHCloud, will be conducting maintenance that will cause about 30 minutes of downtime on our servers in the next 24 hours.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 09/07/2026
Good morning! It’s another beautiful day to build gifthood.community. We are working on hardening our PDS to ensure continuous operation and minimize data loss in case of an emergency.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 08/07/2026
My friends from @newpublic.org are opening their doors to Roundabout Southeast Portland next Tuesday, July 14th. Roundabout is a new online community for SE. I have had the opportunity to get a sneak peek. It's already looking very nice and will be great for our community. Sign up for the waitlist:
roundaboutsoutheastpdx.com
Roundabout Southeast PDX
Roundabout is a new online community for people in Southeast Portland. Events calendar, ask for recommendations, learn more about our community, and share what you know in our local's guides.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 07/07/2026
We are giving away FREE invite codes for gifthood.community. 🙀
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Free Gifthood Invite Codes
Offered in Central Eastside · Portland, OR — Gifthood invites are by default free, as is everything else on this site. However, there is a waitlist. This free gift lets you jump the waitlist and get…
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 07/07/2026
If your account lives on gifthood.social, the whole account goes with it. No email, no waiting period.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 07/07/2026
You can now delete your account yourself. Profile → Danger zone → Delete account walks you through exactly what gets removed (your listings and conversations — everywhere, not just here) and what we keep (moderation records, invites you gave out).
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 07/07/2026
The summertime requests are coming in. 🍨
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Ice cream maker
Requested in Mississippi · Portland, OR — Someone in my home REALLY wants to make their own ice cream. Anyone have an unused machine lying around to give to the cause?
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 06/07/2026
A little update on how things are moving along. We now have 55 humans in the community, with 11 active offers and 6 posted requests. 35 additional humans have been invited to join the community.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 05/07/2026
A very kind human just started the process of gifting us a preamp for the future gifthood.community podcast.' 🥹
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Behringer TUBE ULTRAGAIN MIC100 or MIC200
Requested in Mississippi · Portland, OR — I'm on the lookout for a Behringer TUBE ULTRAGAIN MIC100 or MIC 200 pre-amp so that I can use it for the eventual gifthood.community podcast. My RODE NT1…
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 05/07/2026
Thanks for taking one for the team! 👊🏻
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 05/07/2026
It's bad over there, y'all. Real bad.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 04/07/2026
We are "evangelizing" on Threads now. Yes, I know; we gotta make some sacrifices here. If you are on there, give it a follow and spread the word. www.threads.com/@gifthood.co...
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@gifthood.community • Threads, Say more
0 Followers • 1 Thread • A neighborly way to give and receive, freely, built on the AT Protocol. See the latest conversations with @gifthood.community.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 04/07/2026
Thank you so much! I’d love to launch in the UK and the EU. This is pending legal review. Online Safety Act and GDPR need thorough consideration. Stay tuned.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 04/07/2026
It looks like a cohort in Durham, NC, is forming. A few more waitlist sign-ups for the green light in Durham! ⭐️
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Lïså Lōvê🪶 @lisalove420.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Did/do you love Buy Nothing but hated/hate being on the Book of Faces? Here's your solution. Let's build this community.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 04/07/2026
Dark mode for Gifthood? Might have to just work on that soon.
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gifthood.org @gifthood.org · 03/07/2026
You know, it's a funny thing. My neighbor has a ladder. I need a ladder maybe twice a year. So what did I do? I bought a ladder. Now there are two ladders sitting in two garages, doing nothing, forty feet apart.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 02/07/2026
You also have invite codes to give to your neighbors! Avatar Menu -> Invite a friend.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 02/07/2026
The neighborhood is starting to light up... slowly.
Screenshot of the gifthood.community web application in a desktop browser. The top navigation bar shows the gifthood.community logo and tabs for Nearby (selected), Activity, My posts, and Messages, plus a location selector reading 'Mississippi · Portland, OR', a 'Post' button, and a user avatar. The main content area, titled 'From neighbors you follow,' displays listing cards in a grid: an Offer of Pine Pellet Cat Litter, an Offer of a Manual Push Mower, an Offer of an IKEA Desk, and Requests for an Ethernet cable, Fruit Surplus, and an iPhone. Each card shows a photo or placeholder, an Offer/Request label, availability status, item title, neighborhood, distance, days posted, category tag, and the poster's name and avatar. Filter controls above include All/Offers/Requests toggles, a category filter, a ~5 km distance selector, and a 'Newest' sort. The right half of the screen shows an OpenStreetMap-based map of Portland, Oregon with colored pins marking the geographic locations of nearby listings.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 02/07/2026
Say goodbye to the oh-so-ugly Coming Soon gate. Gifthood is now publicly browsable. 🥳
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Give and receive free things with your neighbors. Everything free, always.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 02/07/2026
I’d love to open up for the EU and the UK. GDPR and other legal review is pending. Crossing t’s and dotting i’s as soon as possible. Stay tuned! 🤞🏻
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 02/07/2026
Is it time to lift the veil off of Gifthood? We (I) think it is. What do you think?
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 02/07/2026
You can switch your location easy. There are several affordances for this. Here is one: click/tap on your avatar, Settings -> Default Area
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 02/07/2026
Hello to our @soundersfc.com fans in Seattle! We are opening up quite a bit of ground in The Emerald City. If you are a denizen of this beautiful place, I invite you to sign up for the waitlist; you'll receive a priority pass through the dreaded beta gate.
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gifthood.community — closed beta
A neighborly way to give and receive — everything free, always. Built in the open on the AT Protocol.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 30/06/2026
Wonderful, welcome to Gifthood. Feel free to play around with the Portland, Oregon pilot. We are rolling out on our home turf first. However, densely populated geographies on our waitlist will open next. If we have 30-50 folks in a geographic cluster waiting, the area opens up. Thanks for looking!
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 30/06/2026
Another milestone: The first neighbor-to-neighbor gifting transaction is complete. Less landfill; two more neighbors know each other, and a stack of note-taking pads found a new home.
A gifthood listing card titled "Assorted Notepads," tagged as an OFFER and marked "Gone." The photo shows a stack of lined white notepads of various sizes standing inside a filing box. Details read: Mississippi, Portland, OR · less than 1 km away · posted 7 days ago. Category: Hobbies & Crafts. Posted by Tim Trautmann.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 29/06/2026
It's working! The first exchange between neighbors is happening. 🥳
Screenshot of the gifthood.community app showing a neighbor request listing titled "Ethernet cable, 3-6 ft long," tagged "Electronics" and marked "Looking." Chris Hayashida-Knight (@chhknight.bsky.social) posted it 52 minutes ago with the note "Looking for a spare short Ethernet cable to connect a smart tv to a router." A map shows the approximate Alameda neighborhood area in Portland, OR, displayed as a roughly 1.2 km zone rather than an exact address. Below, a note reads "1 person has raised their hand," with @kraptv.gifthood.social replying 9 minutes ago: "I've got one! I'm nearby in Irvington. Do you want it tonight?!" A black "I can help" button sits at the bottom.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 29/06/2026
We are gradually gaining momentum. 🍿
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 28/06/2026
@gifthood.org, our "mommy," has a blog now. The comment section is powered by, you guessed it, @bsky.app. Just scroll to the bottom, log in, and your comments will be attached to the @gifthood.org post.
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 27/06/2026
Update from Gifthood Eng: We now have 100% coverage of XRPC read endpoints. One more sprint to get our handful of write endpoints finished. This means that any future mobile client work has everything that it needs for app implementation. 🥳
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gifthood.community @gifthood.community · 26/06/2026
Don't leave these two on the curb. On Gifthood, the things you've outgrown find a neighbor who wants them — free, nearby, nothing bought or sold. Just given. Post yours in about two minutes → gifthood.community
An office chair and an armchair sit side by side on a wet Portland curb under a "Speed Limit 20" sign, with a handwritten cardboard "FREE" sign propped on them. Overlaid text reads "Don't leave these two on the curb" with the gifthood.community logo.
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