The network effect is crucial to every social platform, and what differentiates them is how they are able to match IRL connections with online ones, and we can do this, but it needs to be done carefully and in a way that preserves privacy and user autonomy across platforms and services.

No single software should have the ability to wall off access, or we become the thing we worked so hard to replace.

More details soon 👀

#ActivityPub #Discovery #FriendFinder

Discovery and finding your friends on the fediverse can be tricky.

Either you upload your entire contact list to a central service (nope), or you leverage clever invite methods that people share out of band, to connect IRL people on the fediverse.

Could be as simple as a special invite QR code or link your users can share anywhere, that when visited, onboard them and automatically follow the inviter.

Loops is working on this!

Simple, yet powerful, and privacy friendly 🚀

#Loops #Discovery