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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".

"Occasionally there are online discussions about using schema.org vocabularies with ActivityPub (AP) and Activity Streams 2.0 (AS2). There are many ways to do this, but this article will explore one approach..."

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.

Tom Coates description of the SWF and its founding story (an event at Meta).

"[The SWF] even goes as far as wringing out the Fediverse’s own historical context as a multiprotocol polyglot network, by equating the Fediverse to just the ActivityPub protocol. Hey, look everybody, it’s Evan, the bold creator of The Social Web / Fediverse, with his one protocol that powers the entire thing!"

From the primary author of the ActivityPub spec:
"I am anticipating a crash/collapse of the fediverse in its current form at a not too distant future; hopefully we'll have more answers ready by then, but this is a multi-year project)"