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Anuj Ahooja

@quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy

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🗣️ People, Not Platforms 🌐 Building @ anew.social ✍🏼 Writing @ augment.ink 🌉 bridged from ⁂ threads.net/@quillmatiq, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Today, I'm launching Disperse: an experimental sharesheet that allows you to share to several Atmosphere services at once. At launch, it supports Bluesky, Blacksky, Semble, Margin, Rabbithole, Kipclip, and Sill, with more planned. 1/ augment.ink/introducing-disperse #Open Social Web

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

Come by if you're in the Seattle area! Not only will you around dope humans, there will also be pizza 🍕 If you can't make it, we'll be live streaming! Link in comments. #Open Social Web RE: www.threads.com/@nwbrownboi/post/DX…

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I’ll be here tonight! Hope to see you all there! RSVP link in the comments :) thanks to @quillmatiq for putting this on!

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

We're having our first ever AT Protocol meetup here in Seattle on April 23rd! Are you doing cool stuff for the Atmosphere? Interested in the open social web? Have no idea what I'm talking about, but want to be in a room full of good vibes and builder energy? Then come by for an evening where […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

I recently gave a talk at the Atmosphere Conference! I talked about all the dreams we accomplished at @anewsocialweb within only a year of operation, the lessons I learned along the way, and some of the new dreams I have for the next few years. This year, we're dreaming bigger than ever […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Huge launch for Bridgy Fed today! Blogs now have a way to bridge across ecosystems, connecting Fediverse, Atmosphere, and websites with long-form content. Bridge the blogs! Bridge them everywhere! #Open Social Web RE: www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post…

A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads

Today, Bridgy Fed begins expanding beyond microblogging, starting with long-form. Blogs across the Fediverse, Atmosphere, and the web can connect across ecosystems and find their readers where they already are. We can't wait to see what you write, no matter which platform you use.

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

I'll be doing a short lil' update on the multi-protocol open social web at AtmosphereConf this Sunday! It's a direct follow-up to my talk from last year's conference. I gave that presentation when we'd just started @anewsocialweb, and it was about the dreams we had about what we *could* build […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/03/2026

My blog, augment, is now not only self-hosted, but also Atmospheric! In the first version of the new augment, the comment section brings replies in from Atmosphere microblogging platforms like @bluesky_social and Blacksky. And with Bridgy Fed, it will soon include Fediverse replies as well […]

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Vijay Pemmaraju @hi.im.vijay.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/02/2026

had a great time hanging out with @quillmatiq @nwbrownboi @svetim.fm

May be an image of beer, table and text

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know that you may already have one; here's how you […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/02/2026

I wrote about what I've been calling "The Everything Account" If you're familiar with The Atmosphere, you already know how to get one, and this should hopefully help you explain it to others. For those of you who aren't, you'll be surprised to know that you may already have one; here's how you […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

Would love to see the @mkbhd team do something similar for their community, especially since @davidimel has a strong understanding of how the open social web works 👀 #Fediverse Threads RE: www.threads.com/@crumbler/post/DTS-…

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

I'm so grateful to @shnarfed for giving me a chance to partner with him on @anewsocialweb. I still can't believe he decided to say yes after the wild essays I sent him over email about all the great things we can do with Bridgy Fed. What an amazing year. We're just getting started 🚀 #Fediverse […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Really excited to be included in this round of Bluesky grants! We're among an incredible group of builders who are working hard at decentralizing the protocol away from a single entity, and it's an honor to be among them 🫶🏼 #Fediverse Threads RE […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/11/2025

Really excited to be included in this round of Bluesky grants! We're among an incredible group of builders who are working hard at decentralizing the protocol away from a single entity, and it's an honor to be among them 🫶🏼 #Fediverse Threads RE […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

Seems really bad, man #Meta

1. Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth.
2. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold."

3. Meta recognised that optimising its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway.
4. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.

5. In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn’t say that child safety was his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse.” Zuckerberg also shot down or ignored requests by Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, to better fund child safety work.

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

Bonfire is probably the most versatile social platform out there, and I'm so excited that we get to work with them on bridging and migrations. The team has some really innovative ideas up their sleeve. Stay tuned! #Fediverse Threads RE: www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post…

A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads

Last week Bonfire Social, a brand new ActivityPub-based platform, launched their first release and a fundraiser for their exciting roadmap 🔥 A part of that roadmap includes teaming up with us to bring Bridgy Fed and Bounce to Bonfire users! Learn more about our partnership in our latest blog post: https://blog.anew.social/bonfire-a-new-social/

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 31/10/2025

My N̶e̶i̶g̶h̶b̶o̶r̶ Partner Totoro #Halloween

My partner in a Totoro onsie

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

Writing about why the existence of Bounce is so personal for me, and it's been tough to relive memories of the communities I've lost. The web is a beautiful place, but it's always at risk of being stolen from us. I feel so fortunate to be a part of a coalition of builders + users fighting for […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

Gimmie a sec, screenshotting every Ghost Post for the memories #Ghost Post

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

Really excited to roll out Bounce Beta 2 today! Now you can migrate your Mastodon account to any existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or any other ATProto account 🚀 #Fediverse Threads RE: www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post…

A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads

And we're live! Starting today, you can use Bounce to migrate from Mastodon to an existing Bluesky, Blacksky, or any other ATProto account! Check it out: https://blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-now-live-2/

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

Happy Diwali 🪔 #Diwali

My partner and I dressed in Indian clothing for Diwali. Her in a purple sari, me in a yellow kurta

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

We're launching Mastodon to Bluesky/Blacksky/etc migrations next week! If you're interested in trying it before the rollout, reach out - we're looking for testers. #Fediverse Threads RE: www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post…

A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads

Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider! We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th. Read more here: https://blog.anew.social/bounce-mastodon-to-bluesky/

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Rush @yorush.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Some personal news: I was accepted into News Creator Corps' 2025 Trusted Creators training fellowship. The program focuses on skill sharing and community building, and I'll get to hear and learn from some of the best in digital media (which is super dope). Mama […] [Original post on threads.com]

Photo by Rush on October 08, 2025. May be a graphic of 1 person, poster, magazine and text that says 'news creator corps Trusted Creators Fall 2025 Class N David Rushing'.

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

Soon, you'll be able to Bounce from Mastodon to ATProto 🌐 #Fediverse Threads RE: www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post…

A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads

Today, we announced our next Bounce Beta that lets you migrate your Mastodon profile into any existing ATProto account, whether you're on Bluesky or any other PDS provider! We'll be going live with Bounce Beta 2 on October 20th. Read more here: https://blog.anew.social/bounce-mastodon-to-bluesky/

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Riley Testut @rileytestut.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Yes it’s true, AltStore is joining the Fediverse 🥳 Developers can now federate apps, updates, and news alerts to the open social web via our custom Mastodon server, and all likes, boosts, and comments will appear natively in AltStore. We plan to release this officially soon — but you can check […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

I'm officially running my Bsky account on my own personal server 😌🌐 #Fediverse Threads

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

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2025

Hell yeah 🔥 #Fediverse Threads

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

👀 #Fediverse Threads RE: www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post…

A New Social (@anewsocialweb) on Threads

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.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. #Fediverse Threads

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.

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2025

Paramount+ now with HBO Max, formerly known as Max, formerly known as HBO Max (important: this version didn't have Discovery+ and CNN+ content, those were still separate services), formerly known as HBO Now, formerly known as HBO Go RE: www.threads.com/@wsj/post/DOeHE2IiF…

The Wall Street Journal (@wsj) on Threads

Exclusive: Paramount Skydance is preparing a bid for Warner Bros. Discovery that is backed by the Ellison family.

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2025

@shnarfed and I sat down with @wedistributemedia on the Decentered podcast! In the first half we talk about all the work we're doing at @anewsocialweb with Bridgy Fed and Bounce. Then, in the second half, Sean lets me rave about all the exciting work happening in the open social web. It's a […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

Happy Expensive Infomercial Day to all those who celebrate #AppleEvent

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

Hard disagree. Not only does this not distribute in every standard way available, they also don't properly link inside the text attachment (shown in the QT of a @jherskowitz post I've attached in the reply). This is a lock-in mechanism and doesn't help with any work you do outside of Threads […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2025

Everything's Jira

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2025

On the open social web, you don't have to wait for a trillion-dollar corporation to decide when you get an app optimized for your favorite device RE: www.threads.com/@techmeme/post/DOJX…

Techmeme (@techmeme) on Threads

Meta launches an Instagram app for the iPad, 15 years after its mobile app; it is slightly different than the mobile app, opening directly to a feed of Reels (Mia Sato/The Verge) https://www.theverge.com/news/769460/instagram-ipad-app-launch-reels http://www.techmeme.com/250903/p29#a250903p29

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2025

We're ramping up our funding efforts at @anewsocialweb to ensure we can run Bridgy Fed and Bounce for the long run. As a non-profit, we want to be as community-funded as possible, so we're focusing on ways to make that easier. A quick thread about where we're at in terms of funds: (1/3)🧵 […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2025

Bluesky is kicking off the formal process to make ATProto an IETF standard 👀 datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bofreq-new… #Fediverse Threads

datatracker.ietf.org

Authenticated Transfer

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

This is just blogging, but worse. Platform-locked (no RSS, email, etc.) and drops open social web compatibility (even though receiving platforms can and do support long-form already). FYI: Meta has tried long-form multiple times and shut down all of those projects. If you want to create […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

Bounce, the tool that lets you migrate your social graph between protocols, is now live in Beta! Today, we're launching one direction: ATProto to ActivityPub. We're so excited to get this in people's hands and to see what it means for the future of taking control of our social graphs from […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2025

I got to chat with @shortformernie about how the combo of Bounce & Bridgy Fed is an exit strategy that can help users preserve their communities and relationships in worst-case scenarios like the one in Mississippi yesterday. We build tools like these at […] [Original post on threads.com]

Excerpt from Ernie's piece:
"I asked Anuj Ahooja, the CEO and executive director of A New Social, a nonprofit working to build distributed social technology that works across protocols, what he thought of this situation. He says this moment could be an opportunity to “to decouple peoples’ networks from platforms.”

“When platforms make decisions that have an impact on peoples’ livelihood, whether forced or not, people should be able to escape without having to leave their communities behind,” he says."

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

This is a fantastic intro to the open social web tech under the hood of the Bluesky app. If you have even a peripheral interest in why a whole bunch of nerds like me are excited about AT Protocol, Kuba does a great job of simplifying complex ideas, and I highly recommend giving this a read […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

Oh, I've seen this bad rebrand cycle before - in a few years they'll be MS MAX #MSNBC RE: www.threads.com/@axios/post/DNf2m3Y…

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

I 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 read, but I could also find other books to add to my unbelievably long reading list instead

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

No one: Absolutely no one: Not a single soul: Perplexity: We are putting up a bid to purchase the entire United States of America #perplexity

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

👋🏼🙂‍↔️ metrics-driven social media 🙂‍↕️👉🏼 people-driven social media

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

"Protocols and platforms will come and go. People will remain, and they will need places that reflect and serve their needs, their norms, and their rules." 🎯 People 👏🏼 Not 👏🏼 Platforms 👏🏼 jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-f… #Fediverse Threads

There is One Fediverse. There are a Million Fediverses

A visual representation of fediverse servers clustered by language or topic and their connectivity to each. Source: http://www.comeetie.fr/galerie/mapstodon Over the past several years, I’ve listened to administrators, moderators, and community managers from across the decentralised social media landscape. I’ve been in the chats, attended the FediForums, read the forum debates, and watched them keep their corners of the internet safe and welcoming for the people who inhabit their […]

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025

In a world that builds for the next quarter, build for the next quarter century

Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2025

Dedicated to to spreading the gospel of AI (Adversarial Interoperability) #Fediverse Threads

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

I know a lot of folks here have their qualms about Bluesky, but I hope folks are paying attention to what Rudy Fraser and Blacksky Algorithms are doing to decentralize their community from Bluesky PBC infra. Decentralization at every level of the stack is happening on ATProto. It started […]

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Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq.threads.net.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2025

Bridging and cross-posting are both important, but different, approaches to solving a similar problem. Today on the @anewsocialweb blog, @shnarfed dives into the difference between the two and why we believe Bridgy Fed is crucial infrastructure for a shared open social web […]

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