@blog Insightful post. People in the SWICG geosocial task force are trying to turn your third strategy's hope into help. We’re writing explainer docs for implementing specific user stories, which has instigated work on a few related missing pieces to make federated Foursquare possible. It’s gonna happen!
Notes from the 2026-04-09 #SWICG #GeosocialTF meeting:
- @herebox update on geosocial work presented at AT Protocol Atmosphere conference
- @evan microsyntax for location doc PR
- FediForum session planning
https://hedgedoc.socialweb.coop/s/L0a0Gqvz4
Next meeting: 2026-05-14
Agenda: https://github.com/swicg/geosocial/wiki/2026%E2%80%9005%E2%80%9014-agenda
Notes from the 2026-03-12 #SWICG #GeoSocialTF meeting:
- First draft of explainer doc merged: https://github.com/swicg/geosocial/blob/main/explainer.md
- Starting of validation implementation of Places OrderedCollection proposal
- Starting microsyntax proposal for location without server-side support
There was supposed to be a ForumWG meeting this week, but due to low turnout, and the fact that most threadiverse implementors couldn't actually make the meeting time, I have decided to indefinitely postpone the monthly meetings in favour of discussions on @forum-wg directly.
Note once again that the new address is @forum-wg — the old address (@[email protected]) will publish a Move to migrate its followers at some point to this new address.
February 2026 ForumWG Meeting
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 18h00 to 19h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 5 February 2026.
Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg
There is no set agenda for this month's meeting.
Notes from the 2026-01-08 #SWICG #GeoSocialTF meeting:
- @evan’s Personal Places API proposal
- Discussion of how an overlapping W3C Community Group and Working Group might function
- The FOSDEM Social Web track is going to be even more awesome this year
# 2026-01-08 Geosocial task force meeting ## Attendees - Jeremiah Lee [@[email protected]](http
The monthly SWICG GeoSocial Task Force meeting is about to start if you have thoughts on location data use cases and the social web.
https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/ed630a3d-7581-4053-9978-75949ad42f2a/20260108T130000/
Hi all, just a note that ForumWG meets on the first Thursday of each month.
The first Thursday of January is... 1 January... and as such I don't think we will be meeting this month 
See you all next month!
Social Web Foundation partner and ActivityPub working group member Meta has shut down the accounts of more than 50 mainstream advocacy organizations providing reproductive health information and LGBT support, across its Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp networks. Among the groups targeted are Women Help Women and Sex Talk Arabic, which provides Arabic-language content on sexual and reproductive health.
In response, SWF Research Director Evan Prodromou strongly condemned - nah just kidding, he's still collaborating with them
#DefederateMeta #FediPact #Meta #Zuckerberg #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #Whatsapp #SocialWebFoundation #SWICG
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