Social Web Foundation

Towards a bigger, better fediverse

A conceptual model of ATProto and ActivityPub

If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would you answer if people ask if your network is decentralised and federated?

Decentralized Technology in Practice: An analysis of socio-technical resilience in IPFS

The “Interplanetary File System” (IPFS) refers to a peer-to-peer content addressing protocol that is designed to be “upgradeable, resilient, and more open”. [1]

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)

Attached: 1 image A strong Europe needs independent digital spaces. We believe true digital sovereignty thrives on a competitive, contestable, open ecosystem where diverse platforms co-exist. Today, we’re expanding our presence to W, the new social media. By being on W, we want to boost alternatives and support all efforts toward a decentralised web. And we continue to invest into our presence on the Fediverse!

Rewilding the internet with ATProto

So far, many of the projects in the ATProtocol ecosystem have focused on bringing parity—making projects that replicate our existing tools and platforms, but with the affordances of the protocol instead. That's cool and we need to do that, but I think we can go much farther, and take this opportunity to challenge some of the biggest assumptions of what the modern internet is for, who builds it, and how we interact with it. This talk is in conversation with several of the talks from last year, and in I'll argue that we'll never get away from skeuomorphism until we've fundamentally changed the definition of what "the social internet" means in the first place.

Trust Over IP - Defining a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust

The Trust over IP Foundation is defining a complete architecture for Internet-scale digital trust that combines both cryptographic trust at the machine layer and human trust at the business, legal, and social layers.

The Fediverse Explained: Social Media’s Next Form

The fediverse is a network of social media platforms that are interconnected. Find the answers to fediverse FAQs here.

SocialWeb.Network - Your Gateway to Decentralized Social

Comprehensive resources for decentralized social web protocols including ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr, and more.

FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web:<br>An Online Un-Workshop

Since the Twitter takeover by Elon Musk over three years ago, the Open Social Web has been adopted by an enthusiastic community. People world-wide are building and using open social platforms and open social protocols to better interact with others online.

Smallweb – Your internet folder

A personal cloud contained in a single directory.

Internet Governance Forum (IGF)

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

Mathieu Lefebvre — Product Designer

For several months now, I have been passionate about decentralized social networks. A federated social network is a platform composed of independent servers that communicate with each other using common protocols.

Digital Topology & Economic Power

The autonomous file, once the basic unit of user agency in personal computing, was first hollowed out through proprietary formats and data internalization, then abolished entirely by cloud platforms, relocating control toward incumbents at each stage. Enclosure succeeds not by offering users less, but by bundling genuine capability gains with topological restructuring, so that the user cannot accept the improvement without accepting the new relationship of power.

Modal Foundation

Supporting decentralized social tech and open standards to create trustworthy, public-interest social media alternatives and ensure access to vital information.