[Social Web Foundation]

The Social Web Foundation has joined the W3C:

"SWF joins CDT as one of the few civil society organizations that comprise the Consortium. SWF’s membership in the W3C underscores our commitment to promoting an open and federated social web, and our alignment with the W3C mission to develop web standards through community consensus that ensures the long-term growth and accessibility of technical specifications that are openly licensed."

More forward motion for the open social web as a core part of the open web itself. This is also very good news:

"In terms of concrete ongoing work, we look forward to bringing end-to-end encryption to direct messages in ActivityPub, developing groups on the social web, supporting data portability with ActivityPub, making discovery of ActivityPub objects and their authors easier."

These will all make the open social web safer, more flexible, and easier to build on for new platform entrants. Let's go.

#Fediverse

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