#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018.

#ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate

Fediverse Report – #149 – On Protocol Governance

On the complexities of protocol governance.

connectedplaces.online (connectedplaces.online)

I did not think about this aspect (why would I, I have no idea who is a paid member of the W3C ), but this is a potentially concerning data point.

> There are only two organisations that are active in the fediverse that are a paid member of the W3C: Meta and the Social Web Foundation. With the Social Web Foundation also receiving funding from Meta, the company that built Threads now has more institutional standing in ActivityPub governance than any of the organisations actually building open fediverse software. Mastodon gGmbH, Framasoft, and others are not W3C members and cannot participate in the Working Group unless they are invited.
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> This is by all accounts an extremely funny outcome for a network that aims to be independent of Big Tech’s power.

— @fediversereport@mastodon.social

How this WG shapes up in the coming weeks will be interesting to watch Thank you for sharing this update.