Social Web Foundation

Social Web Foundation at Fediverse?House

Social Web FOSDEM Wrap-up and Next?Steps

Social Web at?FOSDEM

Social Web Devroom?Volunteers

Kickstarter for Pixelfed

The Internet Doesn’t Have To Be Like?This

Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM 2025?Schedule

Today’s public square is on private property. To fight inequality, participate in democracy, and build an equitable society and economy, we must build a true public commons beyond one or two corporate-owned, profit-driven spaces. There is a broad vision for something different. We do not have to settle for how corporate spaces choose to govern, or not govern, themselves. The promise of an open social web is that we can all join communities and that online communities can be interconnected. The Social Web Foundation focuses on the network of platforms connected via ActivityPub. We also support efforts to make other distributed social networking protocols more open and equitable. For this reason, we are excited to support the #FreeOurFeeds campaign launching today. This campaign is an opportunity to develop the capacity needed for the open social web protocols– ActivityPub along with Bluesky’s AT Protocol– to better interoperate, leveraging the entire open social ecosystem to create a working demonstration of algorithmic pluralism at scale. We look forward to contributing to the essential work that follows from the campaign on infrastructure, innovation and governance. The public crowdfunder can help to realize this vision with material support, but it is also an opportunity to create a powerful public narrative, bring experts together and plot a strategy around the need for investing in algorithmic pluralism and digital public infrastructures. I’m honored to join the “custodians” who are supporting the vision for this emerging work including Nabiha Syed, Robin Berjon, Deepti Doshi, Marc Faddoul and Sherif Elsayed-Ali. We hope you’ll join us by signing up at https://freeourfeeds.com

Today’s public square is on private property. To fight inequality, participate in democracy, and build an equitable society and economy, we must build a true public commons beyond one or two corporate-owned, profit-driven spaces. There is a broad vision for something different. We do not have to settle for how corporate spaces choose to govern, or not govern, themselves. The promise of an open social web is that we can all join communities and that online communities can be interconnected. The Social Web Foundation focuses on the network of platforms connected via ActivityPub. We also support efforts to make other distributed social networking protocols more open and equitable. For this reason, we are excited to support the #FreeOurFeeds campaign launching today. This campaign is an opportunity to develop the capacity needed for the open social web protocols– ActivityPub along with Bluesky’s AT Protocol– to better interoperate, leveraging the entire open social ecosystem to create a working demonstration of algorithmic pluralism at scale. We look forward to contributing to the essential work that follows from the campaign on infrastructure, innovation and governance. The public crowdfunder can help to realize this vision with material support, but it is also an opportunity to create a powerful public narrative, bring experts together and plot a strategy around the need for investing in algorithmic pluralism and digital public infrastructures. I’m honored to join the “custodians” who are supporting the vision for this emerging work including Nabiha Syed, Robin Berjon, Deepti Doshi, Marc Faddoul and Sherif Elsayed-Ali. We hope you’ll join us by signing up at https://freeourfeeds.com

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