Cool and interesting on LOLA standard: "New Social Web Working Group at W3C" - https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/01/15/new-social-web-working-group-at-w3c/ #ActivityPub, #Socialcg, #Socialweb, #Socialwg, #W3c, #Workinggroup

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/

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!

Minutes from 4 December 2025 WG Meeting

Apologies in advance if I misrepresented anybody or missed any crucial bits of information.

Attendees

• Julian (@julian@activitypub.space)
• Ted Thibodeau Jr (he/him) (OpenLinkSw.com) // GitHub:@TallTed // Mastodon:@TallTed
• Jesse Karmani (@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social)

Agenda

Mastodon context issues (backfill not possible at the moment)

Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories)

• Draft FEP for the above

Deleting entire tree vs. one post.

https://activitypub.space/post/712

December 2025 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 (tomorrow) on 4 December 2025.

Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg

Discussions will continue re:

• Mastodon context issues (backfill not possible at the moment)
• Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories)
  • Deleting entire tree vs. one post.

https://activitypub.space/post/699

Minutes from 6 November 2025 WG Meeting

Apologies in advance if I misrepresented anybody or missed any crucial bits of information.

• Julian (myself) and Ted (@tallted@mastodon.social) began the session discussing moderation tools in USENET
  • There are comparable systems to how the threadiverse propagates content. Messages are sent to a remote server who is then responsible for distribution.
  • In relation to moderation, there was more ambiguity.

https://activitypub.space/post/546

November 2025 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 6 November 2025.

Please note the time difference if applicable, ForumWG meeting times follow Eastern (± Daylight) Time Zone.

Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg

Discussions will continue re:

• Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories)

https://activitypub.space/post/532

October 2025 ForumWG Meeting

Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 2 October 2025.

Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg

Discussions will continue re:

• FEP 7888/f228 adoption
• ongoing FEP drafts
• Context (topic/thread) deletion and moving between audiences (communities/categories)

September 2025 ForumWG Meeting

Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 4 September 2025. Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg This month's meeting has no set agenda. Discussions will continue re: FEP 7888/f228 adoption and ongoing FEP drafts.

https://community.nodebb.org/post/105728