FOSDEM 2025 – Social Web Devroom – Call For Participation
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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 sour…
on Nov 2
Reminder: Social Web Devroom Deadline is Dec 1
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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 …
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Draft Guidance for Long-form Text
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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…
on Nov 7
Long-form text on the Fediverse
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The Fediverse’s core strength is short, paragraph-length status updates, observations and comments. But more and more newsletter, blogging, and publishing platforms are implementing ActivityP…
on Oct 30
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The Social Web Foundation is a fiscally-sponsored project of Exchange Point Institute, a US 501(c)3 non-profit. Tax-deductible donations to the Social Web Foundation will support our mission, help …
on Oct 2
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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 ev…
on Sep 29
Social breakout sessions at TPAC 2024
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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 SocialC…
on Sep 26
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The Fediverse, also known as the social web, is a network of independent social platforms connected by the open standard protocol ActivityPub. Users on a participating platform can follow their fri…
on Sep 25
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We are guided in everything we do by a simple and clear mission. Every project and partnership we do is evaluated against it. “The Social Web Foundation’s mission is a growing, healthy,…
on Sep 24
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We take on several projects a year – focused on developing technology, creating technical and operational resources, or building community and awareness around the Fediverse. Our program area…
on Sep 24
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Our core team and directors straddle both the tech industry and the civil society sectors, and includes experts in product, protocols, decentralization and public policy. Evan Prodromou Evan is the…
on Sep 24
End-to-end Encryption (E2EE) over ActivityPub
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Encrypted direct messages supply the confidence that people need to connect with family, friends and colleagues privately over a social network. As part of the Summer of Protocols 2024, we explore …
on Sep 24
Launch of Social Web Foundation
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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 proto…
on Sep 24