A new organization emerges to help tackle some of the challenges the Fediverse faces, from advocacy and policy to training and tooling.

Evan Prodromou, the creator of StatusNet, the OStatus protocol, and co-author of ActivityPub, is launching a dedicated nonprofit for the purpose of advocating for and supporting the Fediverse.

    • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      151·
      17 hours ago

      The list of shout-outs in the main announcement pertains to projects who have partnered with the SWF, and intend to support it and collaborate.

      It’s also worth keeping in mind that there are more than 80 different platforms in varying states of development. Yeah, Lemmy is one of the bigger ones, and OG Threadiverse, but the list of platforms to name is absurdly long at this point. I think it makes sense for them to focus on the protocol, and immediate partners.

      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alEnglish
        52·
        15 hours ago

        I hear you, but it features Mastodon very prominently and Mastodon aren’t exactly reputable for supporting anything. Going as far as to implement things in a manner that breaks compatibility with other Fediverse services.

        • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          8·
          15 hours ago

          I don’t disagree, but again, the listed platforms are launch partners who have opted to publicly support the organization on Day 1. It very well could be that they reached out to Lemmy and other projects, and didn’t hear anything back.

    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
      6·
      16 hours ago

      TIL Wordpress is using ActivityPub. I think one issue we have is how hard it is to find instances, communities, or even other media like this, since they won’t even show up in your search if they’re not already federated with your instance. And since many servers block crawlers, it is hard to index them externally too. I think that really limits the reach and the perceived size of the Fediverse.

      • Sean Tilley@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        5·
        15 hours ago

        Yeah, discovery remains one of the big domain area problems for the network. There’s some promising work happening in the space, but it’ll be a while before we see something.

        Incidentally, our publication is federated, and can be followed at @news@wedistribute.org!

  • sturlabragason@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    2 hours ago

    I found it a bit strange that their “Follow us” section didn’t have a Fediverse link. I expected a Mastadon user or something.

    https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c7a4b664-3d49-4f35-9d6f-ab6fe48a58af.png

      • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        I don’t know what they haven’t linked it

        They sort of have, but without a lot of explanation: it’s the self link directly under the “follow us” header. [Edit: in my browser, the link just directs to the main SWF page, because Wordpress’ ActivityPub plugin is still imperfect.] You have to navigate to their contact page to have it formated as a proper ActivityPub address.