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       link: https://blueskyweb.xyz

     

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       Website: <https://blueskyweb.xyz>

     

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       > We‘re building the [AT Protocol](https://atproto.com/), a new foundation for public conversation and social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.

     

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       The company is a Public Benefit Corporation that created the [[ATProtocol]] and built and runs the [Bluesky microblogging platform](https://baky.app).

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       Website: <https://www.farcaster.xyz>

     

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       > a protocol for building decentralized social apps

     

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       Farcaster IDs (FIDs) are stored on the Ethereum blockchain, but everything else is offchain. 

     

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       From the [docs overview](https://docs.farcaster.xyz/learn/what-is-farcaster/overview):

     

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       > Farcaster is a [sufficiently decentralized](https://www.varunsrinivasan.com/2022/01/11/sufficient-decentralization-for-social-networks)social network built on Ethereum.

     

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       > Users can create profiles, post short messages or "casts", follow others and organize into communities. It is a public social network similar in design to Twitter and Reddit.

     

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       > Since Farcaster is public and decentralized, anyone can build an app to read and write data. Users own their accounts and relationships with other users and are free to move between different apps.

     

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       [[Warpcast]] is the original app built and run by the team that designed the Farcaster protocol.

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       A Twitter-like social network app built on top of the [[Farcaster]] protocol by the creators of the Farcaster protocol. 

     

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       It feels most like a Twitter clone.

     

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       They recently added Warps, a points system that can unlock various things. 

     

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       Channels recently got launched, that are a bit like Subreddits.

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       An overview of my social accounts and posting. It can be summarized as mostly [[POSSE]].[^overload]

     

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       [^overload]: And overload! Yes I realize this is a lot of accounts and protocols and platforms to experiment with. The last time it was this dense was the mid 2000s. This time around, I’m hoping we can end up in more interoperable protocols, with my hope being that [ActivityPub and ATProtocol](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2024/01/05/why-not-both-protocols/) are both solid foundations for the next generation of not just social networks, but many apps.

     

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       This started as a short post to put directly into a single Mastodon post about my three Mastodon accounts, but kind of got out of hand, so now it’s a blog post.

     

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       This started as a short post to put directly into a single Mastodon post, but kind of got out of hand, so now it’s a blog post.

     

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       * I use [@boris@cosocial.ca](https://cosocial.ca/@boris) as my main Mastodon account. It receives cross-posts from my [personal blog](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com). Food photos, local Vancouver adventures, travel.

     

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       * [@boris@fission.social](https://fission.social/@boris) is my work account - decentralized compute [@everywherecomputer@fission.social](https://fission.social/@everywherecomputer), [[IPFS]] and protocol discussions

     

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       * [@boris@toolsforthought.social](https://toolsforthought.social/@boris) is hooked up to my [journal posts](https://bmannconsulting.com/journal/). The journal items also get cross-posted to [@bmannconsulting.com on Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/bmannconsulting.com)

     

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       My <https://bmann.ca> landing page links to all my social accounts[^all], and [@bmann.ca is my Bluesky username](https://bsky.bmann.ca).

     

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       My <https://bmann.ca> landing page links to all my social accounts[^all], and [@bmann.ca is also my Bluesky username](https://bsky.bmann.ca).

     

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       [^all]: Technically not all of them. I have Instagram and Facebook accounts that I don’t use. I have a Swarm/Foursquare account. Maybe I will eventually list _all_ my accounts for completeness 😅

     

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       * I use [@boris@cosocial.ca](https://cosocial.ca/@boris) as my main Mastodon account. It receives cross-posts from my [personal blog](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com). Food photos, local Vancouver adventures, travel.

     

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       I used [[Bluesky]] a lot in the early days, less so now. I’m more interested in [[ATProtocol]] than any particular network built with it, and am also interested in their [[DID]] based user ID system. 

     

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       My third Bluesky account is for my [[FoodWiki]] and is [@foodwiki.bmann.ca](https://bsky.app/profile/foodwiki.bmann.ca). For a change of pace, it has no automation and nothing cross posts to it! I hand post food pictures and recipes that I put on my FoodWiki. In part I made that a Bluesky account because many Mastodon users expect Content Warnings (CW) on things like food pictures.

     

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       I still have a Twitter account, but only use it for cross-posting to. The [[Twitter]] note page here also details my archive.

     

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       [Tech Blog](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/) posts I’m not auto cross posting. In part because they come across as just title plus link without any context in [[Micro.blog]]’s feed cross posting. Until I relaunched this site over the holidays, my long form tech blogging had effectively lapsed. We’ll see what the year brings!

     

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       [Tech Blog](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/) posts I’m not auto cross posting. In part because they come across as just title plus link without any context in [[Micro.blog]]’s feed cross posting. 

     

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       [[Fedica]] is a commercial service that does cross posting that I’m experimenting with for sharing blog posts.

     

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       [[Fedica]] is a commercial service that does cross posting that I’m experimenting with for blog post announcements. The Fedica model supports 8 accounts even at the free account tier, which is great! But, even at paid tiers, you can only use one account per network, so right away it doesn’t support my three Mastodon accounts. And yeah, I have a pile of company and project accounts I run for work on the [Fission Mastodon Server](https://fission.social/@fission). 

     

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       The Fedica model supports 8 accounts even at the free account tier, which is great! But, even at paid tiers, you can only use one account per network, so right away it doesn’t support my three Mastodon accounts. And yeah, I have a pile of company and project accounts I run for work on the [Fission Mastodon Server](https://fission.social/@fission). 

     

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       There’s a whole other discussion to be had here about the affordances of each network[^affordances] that fights against cross-posting. No hashtags on Bluesky or Micro.blog. No quote posting on Mastodon. And different character count lengths and embedding support.

     

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       [^affordances]: [[Erin Kissane]] has been doing lots of writing and research about this, like her [Affordance Loop](https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop) article: “Affordances, in the simplest terms, are _what an object offers or provides to a specific individual at a particular moment in time_.”

     

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       I’ll continue to experiment across many different networks, servers, and protocols. I’ll produce [[feeds]] from here. I’ll look to own my accounts and data, and continue [[pooling capital and collaboration]] to work with others. 

     

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       I’ll continue to experiment across many different networks, servers, and protocols. I’ll produce [[feeds]] from here.

     

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       I’ll look to own my accounts and data, and continue [[pooling capital and collaboration]] to work with others. 

     

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       [^overload]: And overload! Yes I realize this is a lot of accounts and protocols and platforms to experiment with. The last time it was this dense was the mid 2000s. This time around, I’m hoping we can end up in more interoperable protocols, with my hope being that [ActivityPub and ATProtocol](https://bmannconsulting.com/blog/2024/01/05/why-not-both-protocols/) are both solid foundations for the next generation of not just social networks, but many apps.