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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

Huge huge huge congrats to @michael & the @newsmast team for winning the Open Social Awards! And to the excellence award winners: @tylrfishr for sill.social & @rude1.blacksky.team & team for @blackskyweb.xyz! Couldn't imagine folks who deserve this more 👏

A group of roughly fifteen conference speakers and organizers posing together on stage for a photo, with an audience member's silhouette visible in the foreground. Several people are wearing red lanyards with name badges.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@eff/11650084919594… Very cool to see Bridgy Fed featured in the latest @eff.org piece 🙏🏼

Bridging is an important facet of POSSE, but also something more people should consider, even if they don’t run their own websites. For example, if you don’t want to create a Threads account just to interact with your one friend who uses that platform, you shouldn’t have to. The good news is, you don’t. There are several bridging services, like Fedisky, RSS Parrot, and pinhole, but Bridgy Fed is currently the simplest to use, so we’ll focus on that.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

@Profpatsch showing off Flohmarkt, a federated buy-and-sell market, at #FediForum

A browser showing austa.social, a federated marketplace (Marktplatz) for Augsburg and surrounding area, displaying a grid of secondhand listings including shoes, toy cars, a 3D printer, an enamel pot, a Thinkpad charger, and arcade buttons. Philip Patsch of flohmarkt.fyi is visible speaking in the video panel on the right.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Sherif from Eurosky is here at #FediForum demoing their new Atmosphere account portal and their EU-Haul migration tool!

A browser showing the Eurosky homepage (eurosky.tech), a European ATProto PDS provider with the tagline "Your Portal to the Atmosphere" and a "Get a Eurosky account" button. The page describes itself as a European home on the ATmosphere with "One account, every app." Sherif EA is visible speaking in the video panel on the right.

A browser showing "EU-HAUL," a tool from Eurosky for migrating ATProto accounts to Europe, displaying Step 1 of a 5-step flow asking for the user's current handle and account password. The background image is a U-Haul truck. Sherif EA is visible smiling in the video panel on the right.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

@imanijoy showing off the new Mastodon profile pages and COLLECTIONS (!!) at #FediForum!

A Mastodon demo instance showing a "Your Collections" feature with one collection called "Comedy Cats" containing 9 accounts, last updated April 9. The left sidebar shows recent searches and the right sidebar shows standard Mastodon navigation including a "Collections" item. Imani Joy is visible speaking in the video panel on the right.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Daniel Holmgren from the @bsky.app team giving a breakdown of atproto at #FediForum!

A presentation slide titled "The basic shape & core intuition" describing ATProto's architecture: an open, remixable data layer where applications are separate from data hosting, all data is public, and sync is pull-based. A diagram shows Personal Data Servers connecting up through Relay (Firehose) nodes to Applications and Algorithms. Daniel Holmgren is visible speaking in the video panel on the right.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Loving @evan's explaining ActivityPub session at #FediForum. Some really great tips on how we can educate folks outside the space 👏🏼

A presentation slide from The Social Web Foundation showing a cluster of user icons grouped inside a blue circle, suggesting a community or network. Evan Prodromou is visible speaking in the video call panel on the right, with an ActivityPub book visible on the shelf behind him.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

@stefan showing off his Mastodon Admin tool at #FediForum. Tons of great tools for folk running their own instance 👏🏼

A screenshot of a Mastodon admin tool called "Bot Scanner" running on gardenstate.social, showing automatic scanning settings, trigger modes (interval polling and webhook), and a color-coded scoring slider that silences accounts scoring 50–74 and suspends those scoring 75–100. Video call participant Stefan Hayden is visible in the bottom-right corner.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

@mapache showing off FediProfile, a link-in-bio service, at #FediForum!

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

@benpate talking about E2EE messaging on ActivityPub at #FediForum. Interop with Emissary, Bonfire, and (eventually) Mastodon!

A screenshot of a browser window showing a messaging app (running on localhost) with a conversation thread titled "Serious Presentation Stuff." The messages outline bullet points about Messaging Layer Security, ActivityPub API, E2EE concerns, and plans for a Fediverse messaging client called Emissary — ending with an announcement that Mastodon will begin development of encrypted DMs in 2027. A video call participant named "benpate" is visible in the bottom-right corner.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/03/2026

Someone built an operating system called Aether OS on top of atproto, and it's sick as hell 🤩 If you have an Atmosphere account, check it out: aetheros.computer

a bunch of windows open on aether os

- PDS records browser
- a tweetdeck-style bsky client
- an apps list
- a calendar
- an ID badge creator

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/1160138… One thing I left out of my The Everything Account piece was a whole section on Bridgy Fed. Short version: As Bridgy Fed adds more lexicons, it makes the Atmosphere the most versatile and data-owning […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A diagram with a box that's captioned "your data" that points in and out of a bunch of other boxes with atmosphere app names like leaflet, semble, smokesignal, blacksky, and popfeed

Another box a bit further out says "Bridgy Fed" with an arrow pointing one way from data to Bridgy Fed. Then, the Bridgy Fed box points to and from two boxes labelled Fediverse and Web

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/02/2026

Live feed of me taking a sip of coffee I just made and saying "damn, this coffee is good"

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

@sri.xyz just launched another ATProto relay: sri.leaflet.pub/3mddrqk5ays27 The Atmosphere is getting the decentralized redundancy it needs 👏🏼

someone leans into president bush's ear. caption reads "another relay has joined the atmosphere"

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Even the launch video is dumb, all of this is so dumb

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

The Tangled team talking about their Git platform built on ATProto at #IETF124

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

The ATProto ecosystem at #IETF24 (Graze also mentioned!)

a slide showing atproto implementations like semble, skylight, leaflet, microcosm, germ, stream.place, and smoke signal

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Daniel from the Bluesky team talking about how Bluesky was built to kick off the ATProto flywheel #IETF125

a slide with a flywheel showing bluesky development feeding into ATProto development

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

A breakdown of what parts of ATProto the team wants to bring to the IETF #IETF124

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/11/2025

Remotely attending the ATProto IETF BoF meeting bright and early this morning! #IETF124

A screenshot of the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) Birds of a Feather meeting at IETF25

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

My N̶e̶i̶g̶h̶b̶o̶r̶ Partner Totoro

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

Spent this weekend offline to be with family and friends and eat a copious amount of food. 10/10, would recommend.

A box of Indian sweets of varying colors

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

First Bounce from Mastodon to Bluesky ✅ Thanks for testing with us @teon.bsky.social!

Post by Teon, @teon.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post reads:
Just Bounced! and that was awesome! 🤯🤩

I've finally consolidated my open social web presence. My Hachyderm account on Mastodon is no more, but now I'm connected my followers here :)

Thanks @anew.social, @quillmatiq.com, and @snarfed.org!

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

I'm officially running my Bsky account (@quillmatiq.com) on my own personal server 😌🌐

screenshot from pdsls.dev showing my repo migration from bsky's enoki.us-east PDS to my own pds.quillmatiq.com PDS

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2025

This is the key that makes ATProto such a winner for data ownership. You own the data. The apps, platforms, and services that everyone uses only augment it. You get to choose where your source of truth lives. Everything else is just distribution […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This has deep implications for the lifecycle of products. If a product gets shut down, the data doesn’t disappear. It’s still in its users’ repos. Someone can build a replacement that makes this data comes back to life. Someone can build a new product that incorporates some of that data, or lets users choose what to import. Someone can build an alternative projection of existing data—a forked product.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

Also appreciate the shout-out to Bridgy Fed! 🗣️ People, Not Platforms

Both ActivityPub and AT Protocol can and do co-exist. This co-existence is perhaps best emphasized by the outstanding work of Bridgy Fed project, which connects ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and other protocols together allowing for interoperability and community that crosses between protocols. If you wanted to summarise this letter on a t-shirt, it would be “People > Protocols > Platforms”.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

This is why we started @anewsocial. We cannot build an open social web by raising new walls, we do it by building bridges. Thank you @thisismissem for writing this. Proud to be alongside the other co-signers. hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/11515758…

There does not have to be a “winning” protocol. We do not build a better open social web for everyone by fighting and arguing about protocol superiority. That is not how (highlight start) we achieve a better open social web. Instead, we must work together, cross-pollinate and share ideas, and participate within each other's communities with respect and mutual understanding (highlight end). Arguing between us only emboldens those that seek to derail and destroy efforts to build an open social web.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

Threads is inventing a worse version of blogging. Even drops open social web compatibility, even though receiving platforms can and do support long-form already.

A post on Threads with their new "text attachment" feature that lets you write long-form within the app. Long-form is hidden under a "read more" line after an excerpt and sits under the microblog post in a gray rounded rectangle.

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025

No, I've fought enough protocol wars this month

a man's face and neck straining with veins showing, trying to hold something back

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

Today, we're launching the first Beta of Bounce, a tool that lets you migrate your social graph across protocols! We got such a positive response from our announcement, and we're so excited for folks to try it out. Here's what you need to know when you […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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