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Yes, Joinable should definitely be able to help you guys stay connected! I use it with my family in Europe.

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All good! Thanks for checking it out! So… we pivoted away from IRL meetups a few months ago (too hard!) but haven’t updated the docs yet. We’ll get on it!

Yeah, I'm getting like a dozen a day or so. I'm hoping it will level out when I block them. But just blocking them all is a lot of work #bots #bluesky

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Once we have that in place, you’ll be able to sign into Joinable with your blue sky account and vice versa, and you’ll be able to update your profile on either location.

However, I’ve been researching the AT protocol, and I really like it. We will be moving Joinable onto it soon!

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When you are microblogging, do you want to reach as many interested followers as possible, but when you are sharing pictures of your kids, you only want them to go to your close friends, or a very specific group of parents, for example.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 04/02/2025

It’s a great question! I think about it all the time. The truth is that we created Joinable before we knew about blue sky, but now that I’m using them both, I can see that the network architecture are fundamentally different.

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Reposted by Teg Grenager

Mark Zuckerberg has invented Bluesky

Threads post by Mark Zuckerberg: "Now you can make your custom feeds public and follow feeds made by your favorite people on Threads!" Screenshot shows the process of creating a feed.

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Is anyone talking about the bot problem on BlueSky? I'm pretty sure that none of the fashion models messaging me "Hello!" in the screenshot are real. #bots #bluesky

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This is why we built Joinable. It has all 4 of these properties. joinable.us

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(Oh I thought of another one!) 4. The ability to create private groups and share content there. Humans have symmetric friendships and group participation, and both are part of our real social behavior. BlueSky doesn't support groups at present.

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3. Focus the sharing and viewing of posts toward rich media: photos, videos, audio, files, whatever. You could do a photo dump of your trip or a video of your kid on BlueSky, but it wouldn't be a great experience.

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2. Precisely control the visibility of your posts, so you know exactly who they are going to. This allows you to share much more, to be more authentic - and yes vulnerable - which is how real relationships are built and strengthened.

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1. Symmetric "friend connections" instead of asymmetric "follows". Human friendship is symmetric: both people must opt into real friendship. And this changes the structure of the network so that when you post and comment you're doing so with small groups of people you actually know.

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BlueSky is awesome ❤️ but BlueSky will not meet all of our social networking needs. In the past we used Twitter for some purposes and Instagram/Facebook for others. The "friend network" we need to replace Insta/FB has three key properties that BlueSky doesn't:

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BTW, I will change the permission requests in the next version we release (in roughly a week).

Totally agree. Stack is flutter/graphql/nodejs/mongodb. Happy to chat about the tech.

Hey thanks for checking it out. We want to serve our users (not the other way around) so (1) it will work well without giving permission, and (2) we may want to remove this request. It was there because originally we allowed you to see nearby posts when the author made them public. Thoughts?

Hi Mopolis! We have built an independent, human-centered alternative to FB/Instagram called Joinable. Please consider joining and moving groups there for authentic, private connection & sharing. Analogy: Bluesky:Twitter as Joinable:Facebook. We're in all the app stores. #joinable jnbl.us/app

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Hi Menno, we have also built an independent, human-centered alternative to FB/Instagram called Joinable. Please consider joining and moving groups there for authentic, private connection & sharing. Analogy: Bluesky:Twitter as Joinable:Facebook. We're in all the app stores. #joinable jnbl.us/app

Hi Bruno, we have built an independent, human-centered alternative to FB/Instagram called Joinable. Please consider joining and moving groups there for authentic, private connection & sharing. Analogy: Bluesky:Twitter as Joinable:Facebook. We're in all the app stores. #joinable jnbl.us/app

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I'm not Canadian (spent every summer there tho!) but we have built an independent, human-centered alternative to FB/Insta called Joinable. Please consider joining for authentic, private connection & sharing. -> Bluesky:Twitter as Joinable:Facebook. We're in all the app stores. #joinable jnbl.us/app

Teg Grenager @grenager.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Are you still on Facebook Groups? If so, we invite you to try Joinable: a free, independent, and private alternative. joinable.us

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Joinable now supports PHOTO DUMPS so you can share all your photos with friends after the party or other event - and more! Version 4.15.9 is in the App Stores, check it out! jnbl.us/app

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Let's do this! @mynamesnotgordy.bsky.social DM me if you want collaborators.

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What do you mean? Right now employees have no way to get to build friendships or community with others. (other than a Slack channel called "fun" or "afterwork".) Joinable gives them a way to see authentic posts from their coworkers, and get to know each other. They have no way to do that today!

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Teg Grenager @grenager.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

How’s this for a GTM strategy? Offer Joinable to employers, schools, clubs, and other organizations that are trying to build community. Help them set up a private circle, and get their members to start posting as a way to get to know each other on a much more authentic personal level. Thoughts?

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It’s live in the AppStores now! Version 4.15.9!

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Teg Grenager @grenager.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We keep pumping out the new features here at Joinable. Today we have a combination of stuff you asked for and stuff that will help us drive engagement & growth! Check it out and please send us feedback as always!

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I know it's not your favorite @shalomormsby.bsky.social but I built it anyway. If it turns out to be annoying, we'll remove it.

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Well that's the idea. Bluesky is amazing for microblogging (sharing ideas! news! opinions!) but not so much for photos of old friends. We need a FB/Insta to help us all stay connected on the friend level. Thoughts?

Umm, yes we can! I think if we focus on it, we can implement the first parts of the AT Protocol in a couple of weeks. Should we prioritize this now?

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Here's a screenshot of my "friend panel" in Joinable right now to give you a life-sized picture.

No, not at all! But thank you for asking the question because it points out an important gap in our messaging. We aim to serve as a healthy alternative to Instagram, or at least the "old style Instagram" where you kept in touch with your friends. 😛

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I just made a new starter pack, yo! go.bsky.app/HiJ4xhC

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Getting traction on a new social media platform is hard. Observation: people adopt a new tool when it helps them in the pursuit of one of their existing strongly held goals, like earning income, supporting a cause, etc. Can anyone think of a user segment that would benefit greatly from joinable.us?

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Totally agree! We need a centrist Dem to show up with inspiring straight talk and a plan!! Give the people a clear alternative! AOC? Mayor Pete? Bernie!

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Awesome. I built it and merged it and it will appear in the next release

Done, this has been released.

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OK, so it's Sunday night and I already built 2 of the 7 growth ideas I proposed this morning. One of them is even deployed to production (you can guess which). I'm going to call it a productive weekend... 😼

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Bluesky Now Has 24 Million Users. Jay Graber Is Still Vowing to Keep It From Enshittification

It's not breaking news, but as I'm trying to wrap my head around the differences and capabilities of this new social platform, I found this interview with Bluesky CEO Jay Graber very helpful and inspiring: www.wired.com/story/big-in...

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At WIRED's The Big Interview event, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber discussed the booming user numbers for the Twitter rival and why giving social media users more control is a recipe for success.

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7. When the users opens the app, if they have friends on Joinable who haven't even opened the app for over a week, let the user know and give them the option to send an SMS message to those friends.

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6. Ask user if they want to learn about people nearby with similar interests, and if so, ask them to select interests tags from a list (where you can also search). After they've selected more than 5, show them people they might like with a prominent "Connect" button.

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5. If one or more of the the user's friends hasn't posted for quite a while, pop up a modal tell the user this, and ask them if they'd like to write a custom note to their friends requesting them to share more and why.

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