Hi 👋 Welcome to Boris Mann's Homepage

I'm interested in Open Source Licensing, community, co-operative models. Pooling capital and collaboration. I'm the founder of Fission. In Canada I help run the CoSocial Community Co-op. In Vancouver, I'm one of the organizers of DWebYVR. I like to cook & eat and have a FoodWiki.

The Feeds page has ways to subscribe. My personal Mastodon account is @boris@cosocial.ca. Journal items are cross-posted to @boris@toolsforthought.social.

Blog Posts 🖊

• Digital Garden Transclusion March 17, 2024
• On venture and fundraising January 27, 2024
• Mostly POSSE January 6, 2024

Digital Garden 🌱

These are the ten most recently modified local notes: Webxdc, James Walker, Via, Self Hosting is selfish, Pooling capital and collaboration, Open source as a job, Libra.re, Death of the professional desktop operating system, Co Op, ZOË.

Journal Entries 📓

I added a few notes to Feedback on Federating Ghost on how this could be done using ATProtocol. ... #
https://bmannconsulting.com/notes/bluesky-custom-feeds-for-premium-content/

Matthew Bogart writes up his thoughts on how Ghost might join the fediverse. The “new blog post... #
https://www.matthewbogart.net/2024/04/17/ghost-asks-for-input-about-how-to-join-the-fediverse/

ActivityBadges extends Open Badges with ActivityPub support. Seen via @mapache@hacyderm.io  #
https://github.com/assemblee-virtuelle/openbadges.app

Just read David Phelps’ Proto-App Thesis aka “Protocol Apps”. It matches a lot of what I’m think... #
https://davidphelps.substack.com/p/the-proto-app-thesis

Clew is an independent web search engine “focused on writing by independent creators”.  #
https://clew.se