Social Web at FOSDEM
A quick update for people at #FOSDEM who are interested in the Fediverse. There are three main public events: the Social Web Devroom is a main track in room ua2118 from 3pm to 7pm Sat Feb 1. The Social Web BOF ("birds of a feather") is on Sunday Feb 2 from 12pm to 1pm in . Finally, Social Web After Hours is on Sunday Feb 2 from 7pm to 9pm at HSBXL. And use the #SocialWebFOSDEM hashtag to track the community on the Fediverse!
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/31/social-web-at-fosdem/
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Social Web Devroom Volunteers
Are you coming to FOSDEM 2025 to attend the Social Web Devroom? Do you like helping make things happen? We need volunteers to help with the audio/visual (A/V) system (no experience necessary), to answer questions at the door, to coordinate questions, to keep time for the speakers, and otherwise keep things moving smoothly. Reply here if you'd like to help out, or email social-web-devroom-manager@fosdem.org .
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/26/social-web-devroom-volunteers/
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Kickstarter for Pixelfed
One of our supporting organisations, Pixelfed, has a Kickstarter active to raise money for Pixelfed and Loops. Donations help support development of these pioneering Fediverse projects. We support the great work going on with both projects, and encourage Fediverse fans to donate to the cause.
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The Internet Doesn’t Have To Be Like This
I loved this video that the Daily Show's Desi Lydic posted on Instagram, Tiktok, and YouTube. Give it a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv-X1E71RGo
Lydic talks about the dizzying changes that are happening in social media these days. Internet users over the last decade have gotten used to a small number of huge social platforms. But political changes, content policy issues, and legal platform shutdowns have upended that formerly stable structure. People can no longer count on their […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/17/the-internet-doesnt-have-to-be-like-this/
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Welcome to the New Non-profit on the Fediverse
Mastodon today announced a new non-profit to manage the next steps for the project. From our perspective, this is a great sign of maturation in the social web software space. Best of luck to Eugen and team as they take this next step. We look forward to working with Mastodon towards a bigger, better Fediverse.
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Content Policy on the Social Web
On Monday, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, announced a new content policy for Meta on Threads. We are disappointed in these changes, which put vulnerable people on and off Meta platforms in harm’s way for harassment. Ideas matter, and history shows that online misinformation and harassment can lead to violence in the real world. There are good analyses of the details of the policy changes at EFF, The Verge, and Platformer.
Meta is one of many ActivityPub implementers and a supporter of the […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/12/content-policy-on-the-social-web/
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Social Web After Hours at FOSDEM 2025
The Social Web Foundation and Hackerspace Brussels (HSBXL) are co-hosting an off-site event at FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, February 2, 2025 from 19:00 to 21:00 local time. Social Web After Hours will feature four Fediverse-focused presentations from leaders of the ActivityPub community:
Darius Kazemi will discuss the Fediverse Observatory
Christine Lemmer-Webber and Jessica Tallon will discuss their work at the Spritely Institute
Julian Lam will discuss NodeBB and using […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/04/social-web-after-hours-at-fosdem-2025/
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Welcome, anew.social!
Hello, back, to anew.social, the new social web non-profit supporting Bridgy Fed and other social web initiatives. You can follow them at @anewsocial@mastodon.social. Ryan and Anuj are two of the pillars of the Social Web community and it’s great to see this new effort. Best of luck, friends.
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Offsite Event at FOSDEM 2025…?
I have good news and bad news. Our Call for Participation for the Social Web track at FOSDEM 2025 was extremely successful; we had almost 40 submissions of great talks about Free and Open Source software for the Fediverse.
The bad news is that we've got only a 4 hours of time at FOSDEM, and we've been unable to allocate more time for the track.
So, right now, I'm looking for space in Brussels for additional space for an offsite event -- "Social Web After Hours", let's call it -- to run on […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/12/10/offsite-event-at-fosdem-2025/
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New Charter for the W3C SocialCG
I want to draw attention to an administrative process at the W3C Social Web Community Group (SocialCG), the standards group that manages ActivityPub and Activity Streams 2.0 and a number of other open social networking standards. The group is considering a new charter to define how decisions are made and how the members work together. This might seem like a minor process, but it's actually part of a bigger deal for the Fediverse. To see why, you need to understand the structure of the […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/12/06/new-charter-for-the-w3c-socialcg/
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Support the Fediverse on #GivingTuesday
[#]GivingTuesday is a day to donate to non-profits. This is a list of organizations and individuals working to make the Fediverse better who could use your support.
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/12/02/support-the-fediverse-on-givingtuesday/
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How to Make a Great Social Web Devroom Presentation
Earlier this month, we made a call for participation for the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025 . I've also been contacting the leading Free and Open Source software developers working on ActivityPub, Mastodon clients, tools, frameworks, and libraries to make sure they're aware of the event.
One of the main questions I've had is: "I'm a software developer, not a marketer or product manager. I'm not used to giving presentations about my work. What should I say, and how should I say it?" […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/11/27/how-to-make-a-great-social-web-devroom-presentation/
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If you have a favourite Open Source server, app, Web client, library, toolkit, or whatever, please let them know about the event! And let me know — I can follow up with their team.
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Reminder: Social Web Devroom Deadline is Dec 1
A reminder for Open Source developers working on the Fediverse: proposals for talks at the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025 are due by December 1.
If you get them in well before the deadline, you can get helpful feedback and give your proposal a better chance of being accepted.
More information on how to submit a proposal at FOSDEM 2025 Social Web Devroom Call for Participation.
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SWF’s Evan Prodromou on the For a Better Web Podcast
I, Evan, was interviewed on Vivaldi’s For a Better Web podcast. I talked to host Bruce Lawson about ActivityPub, the Social Web Foundation, and how open standards win.
https://vivaldi.com/blog/better-web/evan-prodromou-social-web-foundation-for-a-better-web/
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Draft Guidance for Long-form Text
One of the Social Web Foundation's programs for this year is to work on making long-form text more useful and available on the Social Web. By this, we mean multi-paragraph texts of "web page" length, like a blog post, a magazine article, a newsletter, a forum post, or a wiki page. This length of text can usually fit comfortably into a single ActivityPub object -- let's say tens or maybe low hundreds of kilobytes of content. Longer texts like books are probably too big for this use.
There […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/11/07/draft-guidance-for-long-form-text/
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FOSDEM 2025 – Social Web Devroom – Call For Participation
The Social Web Foundation is pleased to announce the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025, and invite participants to submit proposals for talks for the event.
FOSDEM is an exciting free and open source software event in Brussels, Belgium that brings together thousands of enthusiasts from around the world. The event spans the weekend of February 1-2, 2025 and features discussion tracks ("devrooms") for over 140 different technology topics.
The Social Web Devroom will take place in the […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/11/01/fosdem-2025-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/
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Launch link round-up
I want to highlight some of the blog posts and social updates of support for the Social Web Foundation since our launch on 24 Sep 2024.
It was great to get so much support and encouragement from everyone involved in making this launch happen. This is just the first step on a ten thousand kilometre journey, but we're lucky to have such an encouraging and supportive team and community behind us.
Founders
Announcing the Social Web Foundation from Evan Prodromou
On the Social Web Foundation […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/29/launch-link-round-up/
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Social breakout sessions at TPAC 2024
I had a lightning 24 hours in Anaheim, California for the 2024 TPAC conference of the W3C. Today was breakout sessions for working groups and community groups, and we had 3 sessions for the SocialCG, the group that maintains and extends ActivityPub.
The first was about Data Portability -- the ability to move your account between servers. There's some basic portability supported by Mastodon and others, but we have a new specification called LOLA that helps move more of your content between […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/25/social-breakout-sessions-at-tpac-2024/
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Launch of Social Web Foundation
Leaders of the open social networking movement have formed the Social Web Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to making connections between social platforms with the open standard protocol ActivityPub.
The “social web”, also called the “Fediverse”, is a network of independent social platforms connected with the open standard protocol ActivityPub. Users on any platform can follow their friends, family, influencers, or brands on any other participating […]
https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/
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