#socialwebfoundation — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #socialwebfoundation, aggregated by home.social.
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The #SocialWebFoundation, trying to build a better fedi by... abusing the fedi"s trust, not actually being part of the fedi.
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The #SocialWebFoundation, trying to build a better fedi by... abusing the fedi"s trust, not actually being part of the fedi.
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3rd day, the final day, of the #FediForum has started, reminding how time passes with a purpose. Today's demos were: - Hashtag relay by #SocialWebFoundation - New UX of #Mastodon - European PDS: @[email protected] - Groups and publishing for #Bonfire - Second-hand market: #Flohmarkt
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3rd day, the final day, of the #FediForum has started, reminding how time passes with a purpose. Today's demos were: - Hashtag relay by #SocialWebFoundation - New UX of #Mastodon - European PDS: @[email protected] - Groups and publishing for #Bonfire - Second-hand market: #Flohmarkt
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Öka synbarheten i Fediversum med hjälp av tags.pub
Ett sätt att hitta intressanta inlägg i Fediversum är att söka efter och följa hashtaggar. Men ett problem är att hitta hashtaggar på andra instanser än heminstansen. Nu finns det en tjänst som erbjuder ett alternativ för den som vill bli mer synlig på nätet eller i alla fall gör den instans de driver synligare på nätet. Tjänsten är tags.pub.https://fedinyheter.nyhetskartan.se/oka-synbarheten-i-fediversum-med-hjalp-av-tags-pub/
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Introducing tags.pub
tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like @example for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
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Introducing tags.pub
tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like @example for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
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Introducing tags.pub
tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like @example for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
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Introducing tags.pub
tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like @example for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
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Introducing tags.pub
tags.pub is a new service under development by the Social Web Foundation. It is a global hashtag server -- it lets you follow a hashtag across the Fediverse. There's lots of information on the tags.pub home page, and I (Evan) did a talk about tags.pub at FOSDEM 2026. This blog post answers some basics about tags.pub. To follow a hashtag globally, search for a user with that name at tags.pub, like @example for the #example hashtag. Follow that account, and it will share all the […]https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
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Meta, one of the early members of the #SocialWebFoundation, has put the fediverse integration in Threads into a "maintenance mode".
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/
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Meta, one of the early members of the #SocialWebFoundation, has put the fediverse integration in Threads into a "maintenance mode".
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/
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#Mastodon is now finally speaking out but it may be too little too late. We had the chance to reject #Meta's plan to take over the #SocialWeb but a few influential #Fediverse leaders decided for us that our future on the social web would include Meta.
Even now, as Mastodon Org speaks up, they refuse to call the enemy by name, referring to Meta as "another corporate social media platform"
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/
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#Mastodon is now finally speaking out but it may be too little too late. We had the chance to reject #Meta's plan to take over the #SocialWeb but a few influential #Fediverse leaders decided for us that our future on the social web would include Meta.
Even now, as Mastodon Org speaks up, they refuse to call the enemy by name, referring to Meta as "another corporate social media platform"
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/12/the-world-needs-social-sovereignty/
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End-to-end Encryption (E2EE) over ActivityPub
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 the integration of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) into the ActivityPub protocol.
https://socialwebfoundation.org/program-protocol-e2ee/
#ActivityPub #E2EE #SocialWeb #Foundation #SocialWebFoundation #Encryption #Verschlüsselung #Sicherheit #Privatnachricht
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End-to-end Encryption (E2EE) over ActivityPub
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 the integration of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) into the ActivityPub protocol.
https://socialwebfoundation.org/program-protocol-e2ee/
#ActivityPub #E2EE #SocialWeb #Foundation #SocialWebFoundation #Encryption #Verschlüsselung #Sicherheit #Privatnachricht
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Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they).
It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.
Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.
• https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con/
I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.
I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.
#FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified
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Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:
• Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta
• FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)
Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they).
It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.
Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.
• https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con/
I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.
I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.
#FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified
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Remember when the founder of the #SocialWebFoundation was encouraging people to use #WhatsApp over #Signal? Because his boss owns #WhatsApp?
#ICE can compel #Meta to hand over lots of user metadata because Meta also uses metadata to spy on users, as a way to circumvent the encryption.
Conversely, Signal does everything in its power to minimize the amount of metadata it collects.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/10/21/ice-spies-on-whatsapp/
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Remember when the founder of the #SocialWebFoundation was encouraging people to use #WhatsApp over #Signal? Because his boss owns #WhatsApp?
#ICE can compel #Meta to hand over lots of user metadata because Meta also uses metadata to spy on users, as a way to circumvent the encryption.
Conversely, Signal does everything in its power to minimize the amount of metadata it collects.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/10/21/ice-spies-on-whatsapp/
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#fediday2025 Evan Prodromou - Cooperative Social Networks
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Sunday Paper – Mac Open Web, ActivityPub, BlueSky Patent, WordPress, Social Web Foundation
Here are a few bits of text I read recently. -
Sunday Paper – ActivityPub, BlueSky Patent, WordPress, Social Web Foundation
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The guy funding #SocialWebFoundation and other #OpenSocialWeb groups is becoming real chummy with Donal Trump. I'm sure it's nothing.
#USPol #Microsoft #Google #Meta #oracle #SocialWeb #fedipact
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The guy funding #SocialWebFoundation and other #OpenSocialWeb groups is becoming real chummy with Donal Trump. I'm sure it's nothing.
#USPol #Microsoft #Google #Meta #oracle #SocialWeb #fedipact
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@rysiek Those #SocialWebFoundation partners are at it again then. It still boggles my mind how they can entertain working with them.
Engagement at all costs is the Meta way.
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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/ #OpenProtocols, #SocialWebFoundation
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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/ #OpenProtocols, #SocialWebFoundation
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Social Web Foundation is Betting Big on Client-to-Server API
From the outside looking in, it can sometimes feel unclear as to what steps the Social Web Foundation is taking to achieve its goals. The non-profit organization's About Page states lofty ambitions, such as bringing together implementers to build tools, policies, and protocols to advance the Fediverse. The Projects Page includes End-to-End Encryption, a Fediverse Starter Page, GDPR Compliance, and Long-Form Text. However, the SWF has been working on several interesting projects outside of […]https://wedistribute.org/2025/08/social-web-foundation-is-betting-big-on-client-to-server-api/
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Has the #Threads interpolation deal made the #Fediverse better or worse?
#Meta #SocialWebFoundation #MetaWebFoundation #SocialMetaFoundation #SocialWebMeta #MetaMetaFoundation #MetaMetaMeta #fedipact
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Has the #Threads interpolation deal made the #Fediverse better or worse?
#Meta #SocialWebFoundation #MetaWebFoundation #SocialMetaFoundation #SocialWebMeta #MetaMetaFoundation #MetaMetaMeta #fedipact
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Has the #Threads interpolation deal made the #Fediverse better or worse?
#Meta #SocialWebFoundation #MetaWebFoundation #SocialMetaFoundation #SocialWebMeta #MetaMetaFoundation #MetaMetaMeta #fedipact
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Has the #Threads interpolation deal made the #Fediverse better or worse?
#Meta #SocialWebFoundation #MetaWebFoundation #SocialMetaFoundation #SocialWebMeta #MetaMetaFoundation #MetaMetaMeta #fedipact
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Has the #Threads interpolation deal made the #Fediverse better or worse?
#Meta #SocialWebFoundation #MetaWebFoundation #SocialMetaFoundation #SocialWebMeta #MetaMetaFoundation #MetaMetaMeta #fedipact
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The Threads interpolation was a broad-day heist. They covered it with rosy blog posts, and comments meant to confuse and drain your energy. You remember two years ago, they were all under our posts putting in the work.
Why or how these major tech blogs never caught on to all this, I'll never know.
Never stop talking about it. It'll come to light.
#Fedipact #SocialWebFoundation
From: @ophiocephalic
https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/115011235861054411 -
The Threads interpolation was a broad-day heist. They covered it with rosy blog posts, and comments meant to confuse and drain your energy. You remember two years ago, they were all under our posts putting in the work.
Why or how these major tech blogs never caught on to all this, I'll never know.
Never stop talking about it. It'll come to light.
#Fedipact #SocialWebFoundation
From: @ophiocephalic
https://kolektiva.social/@ophiocephalic/115011235861054411 -
I always thought it was odd that everything the #IndieWeb org and #IndieWebSocial guys seemed to advocate for had to do with making it easier for bots to identify you.
Then when they celebrated #Threads adopting rel=me links I knew what their game was.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower
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I always thought it was odd that everything the #IndieWeb org and #IndieWebSocial guys seemed to advocate for had to do with making it easier for bots to identify you.
Then when they celebrated #Threads adopting rel=me links I knew what their game was.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower
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@aral This kind of behavior from #Meta would merit #FediBlock from #Mastodon. The #socialWebFoundation is an impossibility
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@aral This kind of behavior from #Meta would merit #FediBlock from #Mastodon. The #socialWebFoundation is an impossibility
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Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?
But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.
No, no, this must be fake news.
(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)
https://socialwebfoundation.org/
#Meta #Mastodon #MastodonGGMBH #socialWebFoundation #fediverse #BigTech #capitalism #peopleFarming
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Meta did this? Mastodon gGmbH’s partner Meta at the Social Web Foundation?
But aren’t Mastodon gGmbH the good guys? I can’t see how they’d ever partner with Meta if this were true.
No, no, this must be fake news.
(Otherwise, what would it say about Mastodon gGmbH and the Social Web Foundation?)
https://socialwebfoundation.org/
#Meta #Mastodon #MastodonGGMBH #socialWebFoundation #fediverse #BigTech #capitalism #peopleFarming
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No, not Meta! Meta? Really? The same Meta that’s Mastodon gGmbH’s partner at the Social Web Foundation?
https://socialwebfoundation.org/
#meta #mastodon #fediverse #socialWebFoundation https://hachyderm.io/@srijit/114917379679378848
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No, not Meta! Meta? Really? The same Meta that’s Mastodon gGmbH’s partner at the Social Web Foundation?
https://socialwebfoundation.org/
#meta #mastodon #fediverse #socialWebFoundation https://hachyderm.io/@srijit/114917379679378848
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Conversations on Compost, Bridges, and the Future
A few recent conversations remind me: we’ve already done the work of building alternatives. Twenty years of grassroots tech, radical process, and messy social organizing. The trouble is, that soil has been hollowed out, scattered, exhausted, and composted into the #dotconsOur current mission isn’t to “start from scratch,” but to rebuild bridges, spread compost, and replenish the soil. That’s why I keep coming back to this moment, the bridging of the #openweb back into #mainstream […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/conversations-on-compost-bridges-and-the-future/
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Conversations on Compost, Bridges, and the Future
A few recent conversations remind me: we’ve already done the work of building alternatives. Twenty years of grassroots tech, radical process, and messy social organizing. The trouble is, that soil has been hollowed out, scattered, exhausted, and composted into the #dotconsOur current mission isn’t to “start from scratch,” but to rebuild bridges, spread compost, and replenish the soil. That’s why I keep coming back to this moment, the bridging of the #openweb back into #mainstream […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/conversations-on-compost-bridges-and-the-future/
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Meta an evil company? How can it be?! They’re partners, alongside Mastodon gGmbH, at the @swf (https://socialwebfoundation.org)
#institutionalCorruption #mastodon #fediverse #SocialWebFoundation #whitewashing #meta #facebook #threads #BigTech https://mastodon.au/@Linux/114821179079336678
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Social Web Foundation talking about privacy and interoperability. Who do they partner with? Meta.
Nothing to see here. https://techpolicy.social/@mallory/114737793476373409
#igf2025 #UN #UnitedNations #whitewashing #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #meta #facebook #instagram #whatsapp #socialWebFoundation #swf
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#AI #Blockchain #Dorsey #Mozilla #Musk #SocialWebFoundation #VentureCapital and #NoBusinessCase
#FreeOurFeeds füllt mit einer Pressemitteilungen mein Digital-Bullshit-Bingo schneller als Heise in einer Woche.
Schon allein, dass man 30 Millionen Dollar mininum braucht, um einen zweiten (!) Bluesky-Relay zu betreiben, klingt für jeden der tausenden meist spendenfinanzierten Mastodon-Admins wahnwitzig.
Wie so ein Kuckuck legt #Bluesky dem #Fediverse sein Ei ins Nest. 🪺
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#AI #Blockchain #Dorsey #Mozilla #Musk #SocialWebFoundation #VentureCapital and #NoBusinessCase
#FreeOurFeeds füllt mit einer Pressemitteilungen mein Digital-Bullshit-Bingo schneller als Heise in einer Woche.
Schon allein, dass man 30 Millionen Dollar mininum braucht, um einen zweiten (!) Bluesky-Relay zu betreiben, klingt für jeden der tausenden meist spendenfinanzierten Mastodon-Admins wahnwitzig.
Wie so ein Kuckuck legt #Bluesky dem #Fediverse sein Ei ins Nest. 🪺