RE: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/
Etiquetar el món (descentralitzat) ara és més fàcil. 🏷️ La Social Web Foundation presenta Tags.pub. El futur de la descoberta a #ActivityPub es veu brillant. ✨
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/
Following recent world events, unlawful governments, lack of consequences, you might feel hopeless.
It won't fix everything, but at SFSCon last year, Michael and Saskia presented an exploration of the Social Web as the solution for resistance.
A network of social platforms which let us learn from one another again. Not from the algorithm.
Check out the presentation below 👇
https://www.sfscon.it/talks/growing-the-open-social-web-case-studies-from-newsmast/
The goal should be that the fediverse or #SocialWeb not be a separate thing but instead an attention layer on the open web. That every bit of text, audio or video can go viral via human boosts like a post here. With replies attached. Then everything we make for public consumption can become "social media". #APnative
That's different than direct messages or posts in your private groups. That's social networking imo.
For this reason, I'm very undecided whether they should use the same protocol.
Private mentions are starting to look really good in #FediReader
Hoping to add a few more tweaks before the next release
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116238453716406471
"Public institutions are funded by taxpayers' money: their communications serve public interests and should be open to all - without the need of creating social media accounts on proprietary, for-profit closed systems. This is especially salient for European governmental communications: isn’t it absurd that they would require social media accounts owned and run by U.S. based companies?"
#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #RSS #SocialWeb
📝 New post 🚀
"Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse"
mentioning @europeanspodcast @haubles @aral @Gargron @tferrer @rstockm @samvie @EUCommission
#SocialMedia #FOSS #DigitalSovereignty #SocialSovereignty #policy #BigTech #Fediverse #TheFutureIsFederated #RSS #SocialWeb
Update: we've decided to go ahead and submit the CFP to @COSCUP 2026. The track will be called Fediverse & Social Web—think FOSDEM's Social Web devroom, but in Taipei. #COSCUP is free to attend, like FOSDEM.
If the track is accepted, would you be interested in coming to Taipei (Aug 8–9) to give a talk?
(Boosts appreciated!)
https://hollo.social/@hongminhee/019ca8b2-ecca-7150-a237-37f35de45401
I hate calling it all "social media". The problem is corporate platforms with algos they control. Where they abuse us for their profit. This kind of curation should void #Section230 protections the rest of us need.
So I agree but fear a failure to make this distinction, and see a motivation for that. Decentralized social media threatens the power and profit of corporate media. It holds a revolutionary potential to democratize attention.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/opinion/social-media-trial-addiction.html
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Newsmast Foundation
william.maggos
Sam Clemente
Nicolas Fressengeas
Elena Rossini ⁂
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
