Evan ProdromouSep 24, 2024

Launch of Social Web Foundation

Leaders of the open social networking movement have formed the Social Web Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to making connections between social platforms with the open standard protocol ActivityPub.

The “social web”, also called the “Fediverse”, is a network of independent social platforms connected with the open standard protocol ActivityPub. Users on any platform can follow their friends, family, influencers, or brands on any other participating […]

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/

Launch of Social Web Foundation

Leaders of the open social networking movement have formed the Social Web Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to making connections between social platforms with the open standard proto…

Social Web Foundation
Show threadundrendoSep 24, 2024

@evanprodromou
@pluralistic
The moment they speak of "leaders" they've already lost me, unfortunately. In a democracy I want "representatives" or something similar, not "leaders". Democracy means that the people lead, not that the people follow.

I hope it's just a slip of language on their part.

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@pglpm @evanprodromou @pluralistic
Yes there is more strange wording in that text.
E.g. we have there a quote by the CEO of Vivaldi "We are competing against silos" and a moment earlier a man of one of these silos (meta) declares (in another quote) that ‘"interoperability is an important part of ... our vision of threads". XD...
And you know or maybe not - the planned meta "interoperability" (whatsapp <> matrix) will require to sign agreement by each matrix server want to exchange messages.
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Show threadundrendoSep 25, 2024

@miklo @evanprodromou @pluralistic

I agree. It's tricky to keep decentralization when you start giving weight to centralizing bodies.

Saw the evolving Meta question. Personally I'm not interested in interacting with Meta, but it's good that a person has the freedom to choose between servers which interact with Meta and servers which don't.