Growing the Social Web
I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub. Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses…
FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02
Open Social Network Cookbook
The Open Social Network Cookbook is the collective product of the Open Social Incubator, a cohort that MEDLab hosted from Fall 2024 to Spring 2025. At the heart of our work together was the question: How can the online communities that we participate in use tools that truly reflect our values?
Semble (@semble.so)
Social knowledge network for your research trails by @cosmik.network 🌐 https://semble.so/
Permissioned Data PDS Lexicons
I wanted to share a first pass of the PDS lexicons for the permissioned data protocol to get some feedback while the paint’s still wet! You can check them out on my working branch: Comparing main...permissioned-data · bluesky-social/atproto · GitHub They’re all under the com.atproto.space namespace: atproto/lexicons/com/atproto/space at permissioned-data · bluesky-social/atproto · GitHub Confidence rating on Lexicons is probably like ~70-80%. Broad strokes, I think the shape is there. Though ...
ProbablyFrens, Contextual Feeds and Intent-Based Discovery
It’s that time of the year—ETHDenver is just around the corner! Index will be there, and if you’re attending, we’d love to connect! But that’s not all—Index has been evolving, bringing new experiences to make discovery more intuitive and personalized.Meet ProbablyFrens: The Matchmaker AgentWe’re introducing Index’s Matchmaker Agent, an autonomous connector that helps you find the friendships, collaborations, and conversations that should already exist. Whether you’re looking for thought partn...
DXOS Home
The new standard for building collaborative local-first software. DXOS is an open source framework for building real-time, collaborative web applications.
Multi-Homed Personal Data for Education
This blogpost is part of a 20-day project I'm doing for the SURF/NPuls EduWallet Incubator this year, exploring what Personal Data Stores (PDSs) like the Solid Project can add to Wallets.
DXOS
The new standard for building collaborative local-first software. DXOS is an open source framework for building real-time, collaborative web applications.
ohh I love this direction of activity-specific views! There could also be a "research" view for activity from @margin.at @semble.so etc - would be cool to think how to get the research related bsky activity, maybe from Lea @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social
