New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…

Social Web Foundation
New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…

Social Web Foundation

New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be participating in the group. The working group's goal is to release a backwards-compatible iteration of each specification in Q3 of 2026. Activity Streams was released in 2017, and ActivityPub was released in early 2018. Since that time, the experience of hundreds of implementers and millions of users has […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/new-social-web-working-group-at-w3c/

New Social Web Working Group at W3C

Today the W3C standards organization announced a new working group to advance the ActivityPub and Activity Streams standards. The Social Web Foundation, as a W3C member organization, will be partic…

Social Web Foundation
Today, the @w3c has announced the recharter of the Social Web Working Group: https://www.w3.org/2026/01/social-web-wg-charter.html #socialwg #ActivityPub
Social Web Working Group Charter

I have a question for anyone involved in the #SocialWG: do you have any audio or video recordings of any of the meetings? I don't think we ever recorded; it wasn't the norm at the W3C at the time, and not even common now afaik. But maybe at the kickoff TPAC? Or in Portland or San Francisco? @cwebber @tantek.com @aaronpk @dissolve @[email protected] @tsyesika @lehors @sandro @rhiaro

@davew @b0rk Wasn't C2S supposed to answer to and resolve this use case? A kind of #IndieWeb legacy in the outcome of the #SocialWG hidden between LDP + Solid-OIDC and pump.io²

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Interesting it's not linked.

POSSE

POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.

IndieWeb

@stefan @cwebber I am working on a series of posts about the #SocialWG minutes on my blog, fossacademic.tech

[edited to fix a typo]

@bhaugen @nick @wikicafe @ecobytes

Are there good Mastodon clients for managing multiple accounts?

I only knew TweetDeck back in the day and how one could delegate permissions to other accounts. How would that work here?

Nice crossover question for the triage federated identity X federated groups X federated permissions.

That's esp. where Solid and ActivityPub departed from each other in the #SocialWG. I mean, they even share JSON-LD as RDF markup.
Btw., is there a #SocialCG by any means?

@ophiocephalic While #Meta is certainly trying to get their foot into every door they can, Ben Savage of #Meta has become a member of the "Social Web Incubator Community Group" (#SocialCG / #SWICG). Anybody can join, see https://swicg.io/

The group that actually worked on standards was the #W3C "Social Web Working Group" (#SocialWG, closed in 2018). That being said, the "incubator" is influential, for sure.

W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group

The SocialCG provides space to collaborate and coordinate for implementers who are building on any of the specifications published by the Social Web WG, and related technologies.

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We are excited to welcome new members to our working groups!🎉 🥳

@lina has joined our technical working group!! She's a senior full-stack developer extraordinaire who helps us fight git, patiently teaches us #DevOps concepts, and is one of the #MastoDev who contributed to the #ExclusiveLists feature that got merged upstream to base #mastodon 🙌​

@elduvelle has joined our social working group!! She's a postdoctoral #neuroscience researcher in the field of (rodent) spatial cognition, is always ready to help new members feel at home here, and has played an instrumental role in the organization of #Maystodon #JoinMastodonDay and #NeuroParty 🙌​

We thank you both for your outstanding contributions to our community at neuromatch.social and #fediverse ❤️​🙏​ @gratitude

-- on behalf of the #SocialWG #TechWG at #neuromatchstodon, with lots of respect, admiration, and love from @manisha & @jonny