“It seemed neat to me that you could build a social network that uses an open protocol and even has some ability to interact with huge communities of people who are already on software like Mastodon,” says Kolderup.

“I had developed bots that worked with APIs on platforms like Twitter, Mastodon, and Discord, but making software that sits at the same level as the social network itself seems even more powerful and interesting,” he adds.

“It’s built in the spirit of a succession of bookmarking sites that started with Joshua Schachter’s del.icio.us and was carried on for many years by Maciej Cegłowski’s Pinboard,” notes Kolderup.

The open source software — available on GitHub — is in the early stages for now, so it’s only accessible to people who feel comfortable administrating their own websites.

As you create a new bookmark, it will publish that as a “note” to all your followers, making it appear on their own Network page on Postmarks or in their Home feed on Mastodon.

Though the concept of the fediverse has been around for years — Mastodon, for example, was launched in 2016 — the idea recently began picking up steam with more mainstream users in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.

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