Evan Prodromou
LeonNew 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
Tim ChambersCool 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
Evan ProdromouNew 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/
AdrianToday, 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
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
jon r@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
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.
Robert W. Gehl@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?
katzenberger@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.