Co-founder and CTO of @leafplaza.eu. Building open social software in Europe. Founder of PhantomBuild. Usually fixing an edge case.https://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mttiemy4jc2lOne useful thing about building @leafplaza.eu in public. Someone will always find the sentence you thought was perfectly clear and ask the exact question that proves it wasn’t. Honestly helpful. Mildly humbling. 😂24 Aug 2026 14:12 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mttiemy4jc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mt2gtyazpc2cOne advantage of building @leafplaza.eu with a small team. The person reading your bug report might be the same person who caused it 😂 That’s a fast and efficient loop.14 Aug 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mt2gtyazpc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3msqcn6a7uk2ySupporting compatible PDS providers sounded like a simple login change. Nice and easy. Well, that's before every assumption in the app about where an account lives raised its hand 😂10 Aug 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqcn6a7uk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3msg5pwls3s2tOne lesson from the LeafPlaza 1.6 release is that removing a dependency can be more valuable than adding a feature. Nobody opens the app excited that there’s one less service behind it. I do.06 Aug 2026 13:32 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3msg5pwls3s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3msbkj4epac2lLife as a @leafplaza.eu co-founder: “Today I’m improving product analytics so we can make better decisions.” Also me, spending half the morning trying to make three dashboards talk to each other.04 Aug 2026 17:38 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3msbkj4epac2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mrpqyxd62s27One thing I learned adding privacy friendly analytics to LeafPlaza: Apple and Google can ask about the same app and same data in completely different ways. The code was the easy part. Privacy engineering involves a surprising amount of careful reading. 📋28 Jul 2026 15:46 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrpqyxd62s27https://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mrnijg6rzk2tLeafPlaza 1.6 is with Apple and Google. No shiny new button this time. We've been tidying the engine room. Privacy-friendly analytics through @telemetrydeck.com, fewer inherited services, and more of the client under LeafPlaza's control. Small release. Stronger plaza. ⚙️27 Jul 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnijg6rzk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mragzmnis22wA big milestone for our small European team: @leafplaza.eu is now available worldwide. 🌍 Join our managed service, or use the client with a compatible AT Protocol account or your own PDS. The client is open. Your provider is your choice. www.leafplaza.eu22 Jul 2026 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mragzmnis22whttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mr5t3pxiqc2hLeafPlaza 1.5 is live. We heard the feedback. We’ll always encourage people to create an account with @leafplaza.eu, hosted on our EU PDS in Frankfurt, but accounts hosted elsewhere can now use our iOS and Android apps too. No migration. No moving van required. 🚚 The plaza just got bigger.21 Jul 2026 12:35 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr5t3pxiqc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mqrccumln22xLeafPlaza 1.4 is rolling out on iOS and Android. GIFs are behaving again. We had a serious talk. A few behind-the-scenes improvements too. Update and let @leafplaza.eu know if anything looks odd.16 Jul 2026 13:03 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqrccumln22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mp72x2ucm225Every app release reminds me that shipping on two platforms is always a little different. Android: ✅ Apple: "We have a few questions..." 😅 As is tradition.26 Jun 2026 13:38 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp72x2ucm225https://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mp4nwh4yvc24LeafPlaza 1.3 is rolling out. One of the improvements in this release makes messages in Dim mode much easier to read. Thanks to everyone who pointed it out.25 Jun 2026 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4nwh4yvc24https://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3moxqcqekvs2eBuild communities. Not lock-in.23 Jun 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3moxqcqekvs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3movylsfyvs2eYour account should belong to you. Radical, apparently.22 Jun 2026 23:02 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3movylsfyvs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mophah7hak2oNobody asked for another social network. They asked for ownership. Ownership of their account. Ownership of their identity. Ownership of their data. Social media is just the interface. The real product is control.20 Jun 2026 08:36 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mophah7hak2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mo5vn5s64223Every week the internet invents a new reason for LeafPlaza to exist. This was a particularly productive week.13 Jun 2026 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo5vn5s64223https://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mn3h7dehbk2kThe best time to think about digital sovereignty is before you need it.30 May 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn3h7dehbk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mk4llkmjjk27Someone just started using LeafPlaza and their first post was night photography from Tokyo. Feels like it’s less about where you are, more about where your data lives.22 Apr 2026 22:52 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk4llkmjjk27https://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mjhsztdaf226Protocols > platforms.14 Apr 2026 16:39 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhsztdaf226https://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mj2ywu4oxs2yOwning your identity online should be normal.09 Apr 2026 14:20 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj2ywu4oxs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3miyeiynrsk2zYour follows and posts should move with you. That’s the point of AT Protocol. We’re helping people migrate. Come as you are. 🌿08 Apr 2026 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3miyeiynrsk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3migufs6iqc2uDark mode is coming to @leafplaza.eu. Almost there. Even Batman would approve.01 Apr 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3migufs6iqc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3miedi3z3ys2cLeafPlaza OÜ is registered in Estonia. EU company, EU law, EU infrastructure. Not a US company with a GDPR checkbox. Actually European.31 Mar 2026 13:58 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3miedi3z3ys2chttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mi2jfa7zg22rEU infrastructure isn’t a limitation. It’s a guarantee. One thing I kept coming back to is how little clarity there is around where our social data actually lives, and which laws apply to it. With @leafplaza.eu, we wanted to make that explicit. Available worldwide. Your data stays under EU law.27 Mar 2026 16:17 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2jfa7zg22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/vancityjake.com/post/3mhiprppyyk2dLeafPlaza is live. If you’re reading this, you’re early. Welcome. 🌿20 Mar 2026 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:hdkdalweoud7nylvbi4hjdl4/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhiprppyyk2d