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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)"

Compared ActivityPub, Nostr and ATProto

"This paper examines the potential of the Fediverse, a federated network of social media and content platforms, to counter the centralization and dominance of commercial platforms on the social Web. We gather evidence from the technology powering the Fediverse (especially the ActivityPub protocol), current statistical data regarding Fediverse user distribution over instances, and the status of two older, similar, decentralized technologies: e-mail and the Web. Our findings suggest that Fediverse will face significant challenges in fulfilling its decentralization promises, potentially hindering its ability to positively impact the social Web on a large scale."