Post #296563

2026-01-25 13:13 UTC

Who gets to define the next #ActivityPub #W3C standard? &gt; the Working Group requires participants to either be a paid W3C member or to be an Invited Expert. 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 [...] https://web.archive.org/web/20260117005710/https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/ (Via archive.org because connectedplaces didn&#39;t respond to lynx over Tor.)

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@Coffee@toot.cafe 2026-01-25 13:15

Original url: (may open directly in your Fediverse client) https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/

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@lianna@micro.webgarden.click 2026-01-25 13:31

@Coffee@toot.cafe A bit OT but that CW's such an elegant way to clarify that you're talking about the corporation Meta and not just discourse meta.

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@njsg@mementomori.social 2026-01-25 14:06

@Coffee@toot.cafe Eh, what could possibly go wrong? (@pluralistic@mamot.fr how was it that EME appeared, again?)

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@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work 2026-01-25 14:55

@Coffee@toot.cafe okay so, amazing, we have: - Meta - some techbros indirectly paid by meta that is incredible.

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@luana@wetdry.world 2026-01-25 15:08

@Coffee@toot.cafe I’m glad we can just ignore whatever bullshit they come up with and keep the current implementation as is or improve it forking from w3c Ofc, as long as we agree on a single fork

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@zaire@fedi.absturztau.be 2026-01-25 15:15

@Coffee@toot.cafe capitalist gatekeeping strikes again

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