Anuj Ahooja
@quillmatiq.com
🗣️ People, Not Platforms
🌐 Building: @anew.social
✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink
📸🎧☕: @pixels.quillmatiq.com
🌐 Building: @anew.social
✍🏼 Writing: augment.ink
📸🎧☕: @pixels.quillmatiq.com
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Anuj Ahooja
@quillmatiq.com
· Nov 8
Bridges & The Last Network Effect
We don't have to enclose ourselves in walls of our own making or force users to understand the nuances of every platform and protocol. It's time to give people tools that empower them to make decision...
www.augment.ink
I wrote about the importance of tools that bring different platforms and protocols together and how I believe that's the future of an open social web owned by people, not platforms.
www.augment.ink/bridges-the-...
www.augment.ink/bridges-the-...
Guys, this is gonna be so good 😭
January 15, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Guys, this is gonna be so good 😭
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THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION ebook is discounted to £1.99 for one day only, get in there 🐆
There Is No Antimemetics Division: The thrilling new sci-fi horror novel, 'mind-bendingly brilliant' Guardian
There Is No Antimemetics Division: The thrilling new sci-fi horror novel, 'mind-bendingly brilliant' Guardian eBook : qntm: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 9:07 AM
THERE IS NO ANTIMEMETICS DIVISION ebook is discounted to £1.99 for one day only, get in there 🐆
LFG 🤩
THE FALL-OFF ANNOUNCEMENT
YouTube video by J. Cole
youtube.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
LFG 🤩
Meta's VR layoffs, studio closures underscore Zuckerberg's massive p̶i̶v̶o̶t̶ ̵t̶o̶ ̵A̶I̶ lack of understanding of what normal people want
FTFY
FTFY
Meta's VR layoffs, studio closures underscore Zuckerberg's massive pivot to AI
Meta's VR layoffs, studio closures underscore Zuckerberg's massive pivot to AI
Meta began laying off employees in its Reality Labs division focused on virtual reality and shut down several VR studios as it pushes resources towards AI.
cnb.cx
January 14, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Meta's VR layoffs, studio closures underscore Zuckerberg's massive p̶i̶v̶o̶t̶ ̵t̶o̶ ̵A̶I̶ lack of understanding of what normal people want
FTFY
FTFY
Until CSS, all websites had to be colored in with pencil crayons
Until JavaScript all Java was passed down via oral tradition
Until Objective C, all code was pointless, random. The big innovation was having a goal with it
January 14, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Until CSS, all websites had to be colored in with pencil crayons
Reposted by Anuj Ahooja
Any bloggers / internet publishers interested in bringing existing content onto atproto?
If you'd find it valuable to add social web features, like comments / discovery / subscribe via atproto, to your site, lmk
I'd love to hear from indie blog folks, but also larger sites or collectives!
If you'd find it valuable to add social web features, like comments / discovery / subscribe via atproto, to your site, lmk
I'd love to hear from indie blog folks, but also larger sites or collectives!
December 28, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Any bloggers / internet publishers interested in bringing existing content onto atproto?
If you'd find it valuable to add social web features, like comments / discovery / subscribe via atproto, to your site, lmk
I'd love to hear from indie blog folks, but also larger sites or collectives!
If you'd find it valuable to add social web features, like comments / discovery / subscribe via atproto, to your site, lmk
I'd love to hear from indie blog folks, but also larger sites or collectives!
Post your pinned feeds
January 14, 2026 at 4:33 AM
Post your pinned feeds
Crazy that at one point the conversation around LLMs was the slow death of existing tech giants. In the end, all it's going to do is entrench the incumbents even further.
January 14, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Crazy that at one point the conversation around LLMs was the slow death of existing tech giants. In the end, all it's going to do is entrench the incumbents even further.
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I've been calling ATProto's data ownership "the everything account" when explaining it to newer folks 🙂
“the everything app” is a stupid, hopeless, harmful, no good, toxic, impossible idea
“the everything ecosystem” is good, natural, resilient, attractive, sustainable, achievable, and currently within reach thanks to @atproto.com
“the everything ecosystem” is good, natural, resilient, attractive, sustainable, achievable, and currently within reach thanks to @atproto.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I've been calling ATProto's data ownership "the everything account" when explaining it to newer folks 🙂
I'm trying to cut carbs, but I will not say no to fries, for fries are worthy carbs
January 14, 2026 at 3:32 AM
I'm trying to cut carbs, but I will not say no to fries, for fries are worthy carbs
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Did you know we have a subscription lexicon ? Documentation coming soon.
I’ll make a real post about this later, but you can now subscribe to blogs on @pckt.blog using the @standard.site subscription lexicon, and read posts from the blogs you’re following at read.pckt.blog
January 13, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Did you know we have a subscription lexicon ? Documentation coming soon.
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I'm not even sure I'd describe the discussion as problems. These are just different product strategies.
Shared identity doesn't inherently mean shared social graphs, and there are good reasons for connecting to an ecosystem or not, depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
Shared identity doesn't inherently mean shared social graphs, and there are good reasons for connecting to an ecosystem or not, depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
The hardest part of building a social app is bootstrapping a social network.
There are benefits to having distinct social graphs but IMO you are also making the hard part harder.
I think people are taking a principled stance on a practical issue. There is more than one solution to this problem.
There are benefits to having distinct social graphs but IMO you are also making the hard part harder.
I think people are taking a principled stance on a practical issue. There is more than one solution to this problem.
January 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
I'm not even sure I'd describe the discussion as problems. These are just different product strategies.
Shared identity doesn't inherently mean shared social graphs, and there are good reasons for connecting to an ecosystem or not, depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
Shared identity doesn't inherently mean shared social graphs, and there are good reasons for connecting to an ecosystem or not, depending on what you're trying to accomplish.
Circles was the right concept built on top of the wrong ecosystem
We talk about importing social graphs and at the same time many of us also keep thinking about eg Google Circles and the general difficulty of maintaining different degrees of friendship/maintaining/presenting different facets of personality.
People hack around this by having pseudonymous alts...
People hack around this by having pseudonymous alts...
January 13, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Circles was the right concept built on top of the wrong ecosystem
Reposted by Anuj Ahooja
We talk about importing social graphs and at the same time many of us also keep thinking about eg Google Circles and the general difficulty of maintaining different degrees of friendship/maintaining/presenting different facets of personality.
People hack around this by having pseudonymous alts...
People hack around this by having pseudonymous alts...
January 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
We talk about importing social graphs and at the same time many of us also keep thinking about eg Google Circles and the general difficulty of maintaining different degrees of friendship/maintaining/presenting different facets of personality.
People hack around this by having pseudonymous alts...
People hack around this by having pseudonymous alts...
From my perspective, the ATProto social graph would be more useful as a "find your friends" across apps, not necessarily auto-follow.
Rather than sending all your contacts to every app, you can choose which of your apps to "recommend" follows from.
Rather than sending all your contacts to every app, you can choose which of your apps to "recommend" follows from.
So, theoretical atproto service: “Omnifollow”. For those of us who prefer one social graph.
Sign in and grant it repo:* access. It watches the firehose. If you follow someone on service A, it autofollows them on any other service that you both use, e.g. you both have profile records for the service
Sign in and grant it repo:* access. It watches the firehose. If you follow someone on service A, it autofollows them on any other service that you both use, e.g. you both have profile records for the service
January 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
From my perspective, the ATProto social graph would be more useful as a "find your friends" across apps, not necessarily auto-follow.
Rather than sending all your contacts to every app, you can choose which of your apps to "recommend" follows from.
Rather than sending all your contacts to every app, you can choose which of your apps to "recommend" follows from.
I've been calling ATProto's data ownership "the everything account" when explaining it to newer folks 🙂
“the everything app” is a stupid, hopeless, harmful, no good, toxic, impossible idea
“the everything ecosystem” is good, natural, resilient, attractive, sustainable, achievable, and currently within reach thanks to @atproto.com
“the everything ecosystem” is good, natural, resilient, attractive, sustainable, achievable, and currently within reach thanks to @atproto.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:51 PM
I've been calling ATProto's data ownership "the everything account" when explaining it to newer folks 🙂
Reposted by Anuj Ahooja
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Reposted by Anuj Ahooja
Any blacksky.app users who get banned from bsky should try logging into the staging.blacksky.community website. Looking to get feedback + identify any lingering bugs. Email [email protected] with those.
Missing data from non-Blacksky hosted accounts + older posts is expected
Missing data from non-Blacksky hosted accounts + older posts is expected
Blacksky
Decentralized social media built for community power, culture, and collective freedom.
staging.blacksky.community
January 13, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Any blacksky.app users who get banned from bsky should try logging into the staging.blacksky.community website. Looking to get feedback + identify any lingering bugs. Email [email protected] with those.
Missing data from non-Blacksky hosted accounts + older posts is expected
Missing data from non-Blacksky hosted accounts + older posts is expected
"Zuckerberg was so into the idea of the metaverse that he changed his company's name from Facebook, one of the most recognisable brands on the planet, to Meta. He said within the next decade--so by 2031--one billion people would be hanging out in these virtual spaces"
January 13, 2026 at 12:08 AM
"Zuckerberg was so into the idea of the metaverse that he changed his company's name from Facebook, one of the most recognisable brands on the planet, to Meta. He said within the next decade--so by 2031--one billion people would be hanging out in these virtual spaces"
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We 🫶🏼 our friends on The Forkiverse, so we've waived the one-week waiting period to bridge to Bluesky, Blacksky, Northsky, and the rest of the ATProto ecosystem 🌐
RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/115883254793418895
@quillmatiq @brettpeary @Casey @kevin @pj
Great news that forkiverse accounts are going to have their 7-day waiting period waived for bridging. Shows what a cool little instance this is, it's reputation precedes it ✨
#fediverse […]
@quillmatiq @brettpeary @Casey @kevin @pj
Great news that forkiverse accounts are going to have their 7-day waiting period waived for bridging. Shows what a cool little instance this is, it's reputation precedes it ✨
#fediverse […]
Original post on theforkiverse.com
theforkiverse.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:11 PM
We 🫶🏼 our friends on The Forkiverse, so we've waived the one-week waiting period to bridge to Bluesky, Blacksky, Northsky, and the rest of the ATProto ecosystem 🌐
Reposted by Anuj Ahooja
RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/115883254793418895
@quillmatiq @brettpeary @Casey @kevin @pj
Great news that forkiverse accounts are going to have their 7-day waiting period waived for bridging. Shows what a cool little instance this is, it's reputation precedes it ✨
#fediverse […]
@quillmatiq @brettpeary @Casey @kevin @pj
Great news that forkiverse accounts are going to have their 7-day waiting period waived for bridging. Shows what a cool little instance this is, it's reputation precedes it ✨
#fediverse […]
Original post on theforkiverse.com
theforkiverse.com
January 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Good thing they re-based their whole design language across all their popular devices on a device that no one actually wants, even though it makes no sense in any other context
Apple: You (Still) Don’t Understand the Vision Pro
The first live sporting event was broadcast in the Vision Pro, and it’s a big disappointment. The experience could be amazing, but Apple actively ruins it.
stratechery.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Good thing they re-based their whole design language across all their popular devices on a device that no one actually wants, even though it makes no sense in any other context
LinkedIn be like: here's fifty irrelevant notifications that make you ignore us while we tuck in an important one somewhere in between at random
January 12, 2026 at 6:46 PM
LinkedIn be like: here's fifty irrelevant notifications that make you ignore us while we tuck in an important one somewhere in between at random