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There are 14 people on the W3C's Social Web Incubator Community Group today. The group is finalizing new documents that describe how to use WebFinger and HTTP Signatures in the #Fediverse, and a bunch of other work going on as well.
So glad to see what there is ongoing work making the technical plumbing that makes the Fediverse work even better!
If you care, you can participate, it…

Social Web Incubator Community Group
The Social Web Incubator Community Group (also known as SocialCG, or SWICG) is the successor of the Social Web Working Group, which ran from 2014 to 2017. The SocialCG provides space to collaborate and coordinate for implementors who are building on any of the specifications published by the Social Web WG, and related technologies. It is also a place to incubate new proposals which build on or complement the Social Web WG recommendations…

As people yearn for the web's "good old days", bringing those days back is possible with new tech, the possibility of new protocols, and more internet users (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/…

We can have a different web
Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

This article describes how the BS bridge will work from a user perspective. #Mastodon #bluesky

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.

https://techcrunch.…

Why Meta is looking to the fediverse as the future for social media | TechCrunch
Meta's move into the open social web, also known as the fediverse, is puzzling. Does the Facebook owner see open protocols as the future? Will it embrace

[[Techcrunch]] picked up on a fraction of the Fediverse's apparent "closed by default" attitude towards [[Bluesky]]:
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are…

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.

Interesting stuff...
(the original opt-out idea was nuts... it had to cause a major storm. Becoming opt-in, even if discoverability isn't all that well implemented, I don't think I'll mind.
That being said, Bluesky should simply implement ActivityPub. That's the goddamn W3C standard, for crying out loud!)

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.

This headline is false. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-generation-of-social-media/

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.

“the open source social web (aka the fediverse)”.
Hmm, not sure what to think about that description. I see the appeal but do we want to stretch “open source” all the way to include closed implementations of open protocols?
From a headline in #techcrunch about #flipboard.

Flipboard deepens its ties to the open source social web (aka the fediverse) | TechCrunch
Flipboard users can now see their new followers and other activity around the content they share in the fediverse directly in the Flipboard app.

TechCrunch weighs in on the Bluesky-bridging angst. Reasonably fair I think, except for the headline is absurd: I’m pretty sure almost nobody on Bluesky even knows this conversation is happening (nor cares): https://techcrunch.com/2…

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.

So @… is suddenly Techcrunch famous.
Congratulations? Maybe?
https://techc…

Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media | TechCrunch
As decentralized social networks become more popular, the way different protocols interact could set the stage for the future of the web.