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# You Can’t Own The Social Web
- URL: https://werd.io/you-cant-own-the-social-web/
- Published: 2024-10-06T12:46:06.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-06T12:46:06.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Technology, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Bix Frankonis](https://bix.blog/posts/you-cant-own-the-social-web)\]

Bix Frankonis does not agree [with my analysis of the Fediverse and the Social Web Foundation](https://werd.io/2024/the-two-fediverses). For him, much of the issue relates to appropriation of the "social web" name:

> "Like many trade groups, this one is named and self-described in a manner deliberately meant to capture and colonize an entire area. To become, in effect, synonymous with what its name names. It shits on twenty-five years of the web."

He's obviously entitled to his opinion, but I personally think it's a stretch to say that it shits on 25 years of the web. Of *course* there was a social web before the Fediverse - I'm a long-term [indieweb](https://indieweb.org) participant and an even more long-term blogger. But I don't think that precludes this name, which is more of a bet on one embodiment of the *future* of the social web.

But here's what I really love: this conversation is playing out across platforms, across blogs, and across sites. In many ways, it's an illustration in itself of what the web is, and why blogging remains wonderful.

[#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://bix.blog/posts/you-cant-own-the-social-web)\]