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When I posted "Possible futures for Bridgy Fed" a while back, I was surprised and gratified by the outpouring of support. So many of you really believe in it and want it to survive, grow, and find a stable footing beyond the useful little one-person side project it is today.

snarfed.orgPossible futures for Bridgy FedTomorrowland / Walt Disney People regularly ask me whether Bridgy Fed is ready to scale and support more users. It’s a technical question, but their underlying motivation is usually broader: …

Some people stepped up even further and said, “I’m willing to put the work in and help build and drive this.” Anuj is one of those people. He’s a renaissance man who’s worked on the fediverse and open social web for many years, and written at length about its potential. "People, not platforms!”

augment.inkBridges & The Last Network EffectWe're in an exciting moment for the open social web. As Elon makes one bad decision after another on X, we've seen waves of users leave the platform for alternatives. Three obvious beneficiaries of th...

And so many more of you, across the space, have joined and committed to supporting us! We’re truly humbled and grateful. We’re still only at the very beginning, we have a lot of work to do, but we’re excited to get started. Wish us luck, and please reach out if you want to get involved!

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Really good to see that your projects get a more solid supporting structure around them. Building blocks for better integrations between websites and social networks take time to build, and work you have done can essentially save a lot of time and money from other builders. Hopefully they see value.

Oh thank God! Knowing nothing about how the code is actually going to work, if there is any way I can connect non-Dreamwidth users with my Dreamwidth, I would be living the dream. (But I know they use old legacy code.)