Ancestors

Written by We Distribute on 2024-09-24 at 13:28

A new organization emerges to help tackle some of the challenges the Fediverse faces, from advocacy and policy to training and tooling.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/social-web-foundation-launch/

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Toot

Written by Strypey on 2024-10-02 at 22:54

Thanks #WeDistribute for the timely @news, as always. This time about the creation of the Social Web Foundation.

A lot of fediverse veterans seem skeptical of the @swf so far. I've only just started reading about it to figure out why. But learning that one of the founders is Evan Prodromou (@evanprodromou) - one of the grand uncles of the fediverse(1) and ActivityPub - makes me feel a lot better about its potential.

(1) Others include Mike Macgirvin, and the Diaspora founders

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Descendants

Written by Strypey on 2024-10-02 at 22:54

Yes, the funding from Big Money is something to watch. It's wise to push for transparency on what strings might be attached.

Especially when that money comes from Meta, the primary enemy of any privacy-respecting social network project, or pro-democracy/freedom open publishing project. But Meta are a W3C member and that didn't stop fediverse developers doing standardisation work there, or getting ActivityPub and ActivitySteams 2.0 published as W3C standards.

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Written by Strypey on 2024-10-02 at 22:54

As WeDistribute founder and editor (and all round fediverse legend) @deadsuperhero put it, to close out a blog post exploring his initial feelings about SWF;

"I still very much believe in the Fediverse, ActivityPub, and what The Social Web Foundation is trying to do. As Rabble once put it: we’re all part of Team Open. There’s no reason for us to want to try to destroy each other."

https://deadsuperhero.com/2024/09/swf-icky-feeling/

Word.

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