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FediForum | Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop, 2026/03/02

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…

Briefing_Building a New Social Web-20260218.pdf
Framing to Grow the Open Social Web and Serve Democratic Freedoms – Position Paper / Richard Reisman
Framing to Grow the Open Social Web and Serve Democratic Freedoms – Position Paper Richard Reisman (Discussion Draft 2/13/26) For FediForum Un-Workshop March 2, 2026 Growing the usage and functionality of the social web to meet the needs of humanity requires a broadened framing of the task and ...
The Atmosphere . Building the open social web
Note for the file New social media platform diversification of our presence redacted document 5.pdf
This is an HTML version of an attachment to the Freedom of Information request 'Decision to join W social network'.
W Social: Hello World!
Hello World! 🙂 This category is for discussing W Social, a new member on the AT-protocol federation. Launched in conjunction with the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 19, 2026, the project has sparked a lot of praise, interest, rumors and slander. In fact, our social media monitoring console registered 1 billion post views (across all the main social media) for posts mentioning #wsocial within the first week. As I write this, W Social is not yet open for business. There i...

We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be working with @eurosky.social to help to define and develop open social web infrastructure for the AT Protocol! igalia.com/2026/03/18/Advancing-the-AT-P…
Advancing the AT Protocol in Partnership with Eurosky | Igalia
www.igalia.comExcited to invite you to a panel I'll be on next week w/ @richardsever.bsky.social @joelchan86.bsky.social! We’ll discuss the future of open-access, new modular research tools (eg @discoursegraphs.bsky.social) and the role of social media in scientific discourse (@cosmik.network @atproto.science ..)
Frontiers In Research: Open Science · Zoom · Luma
luma.comThanks NLNet Fdn for organizing a great workshop on web browsers! Rad group of participants, including @torproject.org @igalia.com @auxilit.com @aapoalas.trynova.dev @ma1.bsky.social Sounds like they'll do more in 2026, you can sign up to be notified here: nlnet.nl/workshops/#browsers
NLnet, @nlnet@nlnet.nl
social.nlnet.nlLast December I lead a workshop in German about open social media for artists. It took a while to put it online, but it still quite a useful introduction to the subject. pckt.blog/b/hilkeu/open-social-media-ei…
Open Social Media: Eine Einführung auf Deutsch - Hilke schreibt
pckt.blogThe open social web is vibrant, dynamic, and full of amazing apps and websites! At the PublicSpaces Conference in Amsterdam, we just gave out the #OpenSocialAwards. We’re excited to introduce you to these impressive, inventive winners. 🧵
Open Social Awards | New_ Public
newpublic.orgPlease join this webinar on Moving from Harmful Platforms to Social Technologies, discussing how digital public goods and other open-source solutions can support the scaling of a more transparent, interoperable, and accountable social technology landscape. 📝 Register Here zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__IHGcRbVR…