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My name is James Iden Busia. I go by Iden (pronounced eye-den). I make software.


My current project is a bespoke social media application called Community. This project was born of the desire to share family photos and messages with close friends and family securely. I have a wonderful acquired family that I love and want to share my life with. There ought to be a simple social media network that allows me to carefully and easily curate who sees my posts and who I'm interacting with.


I got the idea of federation from Mastodon. When Twitter was officially being purchased by Musk, I quickly looked for alternatives. Mastodon is great, but when I tried to set up my own server it turned out to be a huge pain. I'm passionate about FOSS, so I devled into the whole ecosystem, but the solutions I found were all similar to Mastodon. I love to code, and I'm a big-time DIYer, so I decided to make my own.


Check out the Community project here.

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