Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation
Evan Prodromou Launches The Social Web Foundation
A new organization emerges to help tackle some of the challenges the Fediverse faces, from advocacy and policy to training and tooling.
Evan Prodromou, the creator of StatusNet, the OStatus protocol, and co-author of ActivityPub, is launching a dedicated nonprofit for the purpose of advocating for and supporting the Fediverse.
They have a page on "supporting long form text in the fediverse" - but this is already supported? I think it's only Mastodon and other microblogging places that put restrictions on how long posts can be.
The absence of any Lemmy mention seems weird to me.
The list of shout-outs in the main announcement pertains to projects who have partnered with the SWF, and intend to support it and collaborate.
It's also worth keeping in mind that there are more than 80 different platforms in varying states of development. Yeah, Lemmy is one of the bigger ones, and OG Threadiverse, but the list of platforms to name is absurdly long at this point. I think it makes sense for them to focus on the protocol, and immediate partners.
Not at all. Evan is advocating for the development of ActivityPub as the basis for the social graph, not any specific application: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/113143389340566731
Pass. No corpo control of the Fediverse
@deadsuperhero@lemmy.world Btw, if you're using Mbin you can follow them directly from there! Their account is @swf@socialwebfoundation.org ( !swf@socialwebfoundation.org )
TIL Wordpress is using ActivityPub. I think one issue we have is how hard it is to find instances, communities, or even other media like this, since they won't even show up in your search if they're not already federated with your instance. And since many servers block crawlers, it is hard to index them externally too. I think that really limits the reach and the perceived size of the Fediverse.
Yeah, discovery remains one of the big domain area problems for the network. There's some promising work happening in the space, but it'll be a while before we see something.
Incidentally, our publication is federated, and can be followed at @news@wedistribute.org!
I think that WordPress integration has been added to Lemmy, so you should be able to also follow WordPress blogs right here, they show up as communities.
I mean I'm not sure how well it works, last I checked it was very glitchy.
Link doesn’t work, should be @swf@socialwebfoundation.org
I found it a bit strange that their “Follow us” section didn’t have a Fediverse link. I expected a Mastadon user or something.
@sturlabragason@lemmy.world There's is one on @swf@socialwebfoundation.org ( !swf@socialwebfoundation.org ) , I don't know what they haven't linked it
I don’t know what they haven’t linked it
They sort of have, but without a lot of explanation: it's the self link directly under the "follow us" header. [Edit: in my browser, the link just directs to the main SWF page, because Wordpress' ActivityPub plugin is still imperfect.] You have to navigate to their contact page to have it formated as a proper ActivityPub address.