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@angelquicksey.bsky.social, Managing Director at New_ Public, finds inspiration in @ericries.bsky.social's new book Incorruptible: can we push these AI companies in a more public-spirited, prosocial direction and away from the gravitational pull of extractive business models?
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Last week was crazy!
We travelled to Amsterdam for the @publicspaces.net conference. There, we met with an amazing group of people and, if you didn't hear, we won the Grand Prize at the inaugural Open Social Awards 🏆️ ✨️
New_ Public Co-Director @eli.bsky.social:
"I wanna see people holding that vision of what a good future can be like, and moving towards it"
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Bonfire helps build spaces for communities, outside of the existing Big Tech social platforms. Instead of a Facebook Group, these bespoke spaces are shaped by the people who will use them, for exactly what they want.
Finally, Bounce (@anew.social) builds crucial infrastructure — making it easy for users to shift between the two biggest open social web protocols, ActivityPub (which powers Mastodon) and AT Protocol (which powers Bluesky.)
We had so many amazing applicants to the #OpenSocialAwards that the jury asked that we acknowledge some of the amazing honorable mentions.
First up: @stream.place brings a familiar Twitch/YouTube-style video experience to the open social web.
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@leaflet.pub embodies the spirit of the open social web, with Substack or Medium style blogging and newsletters, but where independent writers really own and control their writing.
Google’s AI integration, combined with a growing desire to get off of US-based Big Tech platforms, might be the final straw for folks who have used Google Search for decades.
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@dandelion.events helps community organizers and small organisations with a reliable way to publish events, sell tickets, and manage memberships without locking that information in a single closed app.
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8 likes, 0 comments - knightfdn on June 11, 2026: "AI is shaping how information is packaged, shared, and discovered, but who gets to shape AI?
Eli Pariser explores what's at stake in this new inform...
