Social Web Bookmarks

A historical free software manifesto with participation from the social web folks.

"A career-long journey to build online social networks that cannot be controlled by a single company, culminating with the ActivityPub standard."

"What if we were all just a bunch of allowlist-only servers talking to each other, in the process creating an entirely new network? A pr..."

“Fediblock is a constant point of contention on the fediverse. And the tag has taken a life of its own.”

Jo Freeman - Discussions about the risks of not having organization structure. Not directly Fedi-related, but this article is sometimes used to describe the problems with the Fediverse's ability to "get things done".

Testing framework for network servers, including federated social network servers.

(2019) "If you're looking for social media options where the user has more control, you'll find a range of options to explore in the Fediverse, including t..."

"And before I get into why Mastodon (as is) will fail, I want dissect all of the things Mastodon does right, and why it’s such an important stepping stone in the decentralized computing movement in general."

"Behind the complicated history of two supernetworks, and their potential future."

Tom Coates' notes from the Meta Fediverse summit in early 2024.