I'll be talking about @WriteFreely at #FOSDEM tomorrow at 15:00 in the Social Web devroom, UA2.118. If you're around, stop by and stay for the many other great talks going into the evening!

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Reading (on Threads) about why people like #bluesky over #mastodon, and most seems to boil down to usability / wrestling with servers. Have to agree. And it's why I still think we need a good #fediverse client as an entry point.

The fediverse is a strange place to be sometimes. It's an open network where progress happens in fits and starts in random, often hidden, pockets. And the rest don't often hear what's really going on. In the 6 years I've built on #ActivityPub, we've all had to fight for some kind of coordination. Especially re: the new #SocialWebFoundation (which I've backed as an outside supporter via my tiny company [@write_as](

Writing Exchange

Write.as (@write_as@writing.exchange)

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)), you can see something new is happening.