I haven't been here much lately.. for the first few months it was because I was on maternity leave, but lately it's been because I'm spending my time on the Atmosphere instead. Especially since they are working on seriously implementing private data, it feels more and more like that protocol fits my needs more than ActivityPub. I appreciate all the work that's been done here, but the easy data hosting and portability, dns usernames, and composable architecture on atproto are killer features.
Jesse Karmani
Whatever crosses my mind on tech, internet, federated social, etc.
Infrequent poster; I spend enough of my time on screens as it is, so I prefer to go touch grass and connect with the universe. I build things for other people who feel the same.
Founder of , a followers-only federated photo-sharing app for your friends and fam 💜👯♂️🌄
Formerly GitHub, ModCloth, PivotalLabs, UC Berkeley
pronouns: she/her working on: https://frequency.app github: https://github.com/jesseplusplus
Android users: do you install apps from alternate app stores?
I last had an android as my main driver in 2013 and used to run a jail broken OS, but have no idea how common installing non play store apps is these days
What a special 2 days it was at #FediCon. So great to meet everyone in person and have so many wonderful conversations! Thank you for organizing
, great work!!
Really appreciated
’s thoughtful talk about how to get to the future of the fediverse we all want. Hint: it means designing for the next subset of early adopters, not just current fedi enthusiasts #FediCon





Just grabbed my #FediCon ticket! Excited to meet up with all you wonderful folks helping to build this place 🫶🏻😊🥳
now fully supports FEP-7888 as of yesterday! (It has been generating outbound context since the beginning of the year, but I just finished fetching all remote replies from the context as well.)
https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/188
I'll hold off on trying to upstream this to Mastodon until after the 4.4.0 release to make sure I'm not conflicting with anything they changed.
7/3/2025, 1 engagement
Hey everyone! I wanted to share a little bit about why I’m building
and what we’re working on.
First, we’re a very small team of two—me as a full-time developer and a part-time designer moving toward full-time.
We strongly oppose the use of addictive, manipulative algorithms & design patterns used by big platforms. Rather than replicating familiar interfaces, we’re aiming to build a more intentional, mindful way of interacting with social media.
1/25/2025, 2 engagements
I seem to always get stuck forever at the 'Load Drive' step when opening a form on Firefox in Mac OS X (latest) on the flagship instance. I've had this happen for many different forms I've tried to open. The same form works fine in Safari.

