







Recently I received a large grant from Bluesky Social PBC to fund my work on FedCM for decentralized web. So whilst the response has been overwhelmingly positive, there's currently a tiny tiny percentage of people in my mentions on the fediverse right now that are accusing me of horrible
Working to Decentralize FedCM - AT Protocol
Bluesky Social PBC have given a grant to Emelia Smith, an Invited Expert with the FedID Working Group, to work on FedCM with the goal of making FedCM really work for the decentralized web.


Copyright and DMCA Best Practices for Fediverse Operators
People building the future of the social web—interoperable and decentralized—need to protect themselves against copyright liability. This post gives an overview of the steps to take. It’s meant for

Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
This document discusses aspects of centralization that relate to Internet standards efforts. It argues that, while standards bodies have a limited ability to prevent many forms of centralization, they can still make contributions that assist in the decentralization of the Internet.

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

Why does this new W3C specification matter for the decentrazlized Web
This video explain what FedCM is and why it can be a turning point if we want more Sigle Sign On diversity on the web
There Are No Standards Police
No one requires tech companies or open source projects to use most Internet standards, and no one requires people to use them either. This post explains why the voluntary nature of its standards are critical to the Internet's health.

Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization -- Dustycloud Brainstorms
A few weeks ago I wrote How decentralized is Bluesky really?, a blogpost which received far more attention than I expected on the fediverse and Bluesky both. Thankfully, the blogpost was received well generally, including by Bluesky's team. Bryan Newbold, core Bluesky engineer, wrote a thoughtful response article: Reply on Bluesky and Decentralization, which I consider worth reading.
Bluesky 2025 Transparency Report - Bluesky
Throughout 2025, our Trust & Safety work was guided by the premise that social media should serve the people using it. Our transparency report provides data and details about those investments, and the progress we made this year.

has anyone done an explainer on why standard.site is cool? I can usually see the promise in new developments here and I'm sure I'm missing something but I'm just not getting it
NEWS 📣 The Sovereign Tech Agency is launching the Sovereign Tech Standards network today, a new program designed to bring open source maintainers directly into global standards development. sovereign.tech/news/join-sovereign-tech-stan…
I wrote up a piece on how standards are made, because of some folks being very negative about the grant on other social networks: writings.thisismissem.social/how-standards-are-made/
How Standards Are Made
writings.thisismissem.socialI'll go against the discourse. 280 contributors to repo.npmx.dev in 100 days. We only used bluesky for social comms. We asked while welcoming folks, and most of them got involved after reading our bsky posts. Thanks for building and running bluesky. This network is a great place to do open source 💙
patak
Wild to see that @npmx.dev was the fastest-growing emerging open source organization by number of contributors in Q1 2026 according to osscar.dev. What is even more interesting: it was the only non-AI tool in the top 10.
Heeey, look, it's me! I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.
AT Protocol Developers
We're so excited to support @thisismissem.social's work bringing FedCM to the open social web! atproto.com/blog/working-to-decentralize-…
We're so excited to support @thisismissem.social's work bringing FedCM to the open social web! atproto.com/blog/working-to-decentralize-…
Working to Decentralize FedCM - AT Protocol
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