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Chris Nicholas @chrisnicholas.dev · 03/04/2025

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It should be easy to add Notion-like collaborative text editing. This is why we've just released first-party support for BlockNote, enabling: • Fully-hosted collaborative block-based editing • Real-time comments and notifications • Offline support, multiple editors, and more

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Awesome collab (😜) with @liveblocks.io. Make your www.blocknotejs.org editor collaborative with just a few lines of code!

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Stacked versioning 🤔

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Let's make sure to accelerate this by investing in open source so the entire world benefits. Anyway, great job @mariekekoekkoek.voltnederland.org @jessesixdijkstra.bsky.social @barbarakathmann.bsky.social 🙌

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

"Dutch parliament calls for end to dependence on US software companies": www.reuters.com/world/europe.... It's been an honor to work with 🇩🇪 and 🇫🇷 on this, but even better to see digital autonomy taken seriously in my home country. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Dutch parliament calls for end to reliance on US software

The Netherlands' parliament on Tuesday approved a series of motions calling on the government to reduce dependence on U.S. software companies, including by creating a cloud services platform that is under Dutch control.

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Comments will be added soon ,👍

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 16/03/2025

This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.

docs.numerique.gouv.fr

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Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Thanks for sharing Ben! Cool to know; the Docs team has been sponsoring downstream open source technologies. An important part of Docs is the www.blocknotejs.org editor I'm working on - and it's been great and fulfilling to work together with the 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇪 teams on this.

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

🚀 #1 on Hacker News! 🚀 The open source and collaborative document editor we're building with the French and German governments just hit the top of HN. Proud to be part of this with BlockNote (www.blocknotejs.org)!

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

After shipping on his first day, stay tuned for the first major feature (some crazy Table improvements!) to be shipped later this week!

YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Excited to share @nickthesick.com is now working on BlockNote (www.blocknotejs.org) with us as lead engineer! Feels great to get a team together around our open source product, and Nick brings a lot of experience working on rich text editors 💖

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Nick The Sick @nickthesick.com · 29/01/2025

Excited to announce that I'm leaving Tiptap, I will be joining BlockNote at the beginning of the month. It's been less than a year, but I'm in a good place to take some risk and try starting up a company. Given that I'm leaving, I thought it'd fun to share the things I built while at Tiptap. So 🧵

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

On our way to @fosdem.bsky.social. Will be giving a talk on how we're collaborating @ BlockNotejs.org with EU governments to build a sovereign digital workplace: fosdem.org/2025/schedul.... Who else is going?

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FOSDEM 2025 - Note-Worthy Collaboration: Co-developing a Note-Taking Application

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Yes we'll be there!! Looking fwd to meet. Also have a talk on Sunday; fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

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FOSDEM 2025 - Note-Worthy Collaboration: Co-developing a Note-Taking Application

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Jamsocket @handle.invalid · 18/12/2024

Y-Sweet now has offline support! Read about it and the other changes in the newly-released Y-Sweet 0.7.0. jamsocket.com/blog/y-sweet...

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What’s new in Y-Sweet 0.7.0: offline support and more!

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Think gov tech is boring? Working on Open Source solutions for Digital Autonomy for your own country is pretty exciting 🙌 Back from Berlin where the CIOs of 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 decided to keep working together on tech sovereignty through open source software. Exciting to be a small part of this with BlockNote!

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Jamsocket @handle.invalid · 05/12/2024

Collaborative rich text editing is one of the most popular use cases for Yjs. Today, we're releasing our BlockNote Y-Sweet demo, which get's the job done in just a few short lines of code! buff.ly/4g41ggn

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YousefED @yed.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Just released BlockNote v0.20.0, with enhanced keyboard nav: - support for indenting multiple blocks - moving multiple blocks with cmd+shift+up/down (see gif) - tab through table cells github.com/TypeCellOS/B...

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100% agree and good point in combination with regulatory capture. Slow and late can still be useful of course (tech industry is still young) - but yes, also interesting to think of other ways (i.e. optimizing for local niche markets you mentioned earlier)

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2) Re. SaaS: besides talent, isn't running SaaS is extremely low cost / high margin? In that case, it's an education problem? Or perhaps, is enshittification related to a VC dominated market that demands outsized returns?

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1) I'm more positive on regulation changing dynamics; maybe long term, but I'm curious to see what the DMA will do to the instant messaging / chat market

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I'll ask some economists about deconsolidation examples, interesting! I'm not sure I agree on two points though:

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Oh and btw, I don’t blame strava for all of this (I do for the privacy PR spins); this is an industry / society wide problem. I’ve been through 20 years of this stuff building products on MSN, Google, Twitter, Strava etc. Same shit every time - it’s time for a better future ❤️ Ur thoughts @pvh.ca?

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As a techie; ofc pushing more data to end-users (decentralized systems, #localfirst, etc). But to really disrupt the economics I think regulators can play a key role to both level the playing field (market control) and safeguard consumer rights (data ownership). Call me old-fashioned, or European 🤷‍♂️

fyi, posted my thoughts on the topic here! bsky.app/profile/yed....

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Strava's Big Changes Aim To Kill Off Apps

For an in-depth analysis on the events, fitness-tech insider @dcrainmaker.com has put up an excellent video + article describing the events: www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/11/stra.... And here is his coverage on the Strava vs. Relive events from 2019: www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/07/stra....

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Yesterday Strava sent out an e-mail to users, outlining a change that’s occurring almost immediately, regarding 3rd party apps …

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❤️ I might share more details about our experience later. For now, my heart is with founders who see their life’s work at risk. Relive grew from 2M to 20M users after we were kicked out. There’s light at the end of the tunnel. Don’t give in to legal pressure when the big guy tries to strong-arm you.

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🚀I’d also love to see if as an industry we can join our hands together and design an independent system that makes it easier for users to control how their data syncs between devices, apps and services. Ping me if you’re interested in exploring this.

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What can we do? 🚴‍♂️ 🏃🏽‍♀️ As a consumer, you have the power to stop companies from claiming rights on your data. Stop companies from treating you as their product. #MyLegsMyData

This “bait-and-switch” is exactly what’s happening here. Ironically, Strava itself was built by aggregating user data from devices like Garmin - likely still the source of over 50% of their uploads.

Silicon Valley has a long history of opening platforms to foster innovation, only to later crack down on companies and copy their best features (as they did with Relive).

In private conversations, Strava made it clear there were competitive concerns about our roadmap. In public, they emailed millions of users with PR-gibberish saying they disconnected Relive because of “Privacy & Safety” concerns.

...they're doing this under the false flag of “user privacy”; a blatant lie and outright offensive to users. They did this with Relive in 2019 as well...

Users give explicit consent to share THEIR data with 3rd party apps they love and trust. Now, they figured this is against their business interests and want a monopoly on your data (perhaps triggered by AI advancements). You could argue they don’t have an obligation to act as a data hub, but..

10.000+ apps build on top of the Strava API to make useful apps for millions of athletes; ranging from indie devs, to startups, to serious businesses. With 100M+ users Strava plays a central role in the ecosystem as it’s the easiest way to access workout data from users and build new, exciting apps.

...they then decided to kick us off their platform (details in last post). Fortunately, we came out stronger. Yesterday, I woke up to the news that it's likely they're pulling the same trick again to other developers. I'm posting this thread to share our experience and my thoughts on the events: