Convener: Johannes Ernst (@j12t@social.coop)

Conducted as both a FediForum session and a W3C Social Web Incubator Community Group meeting.

Participants:

• varying, up to 46 Zoom participants (the W3C meeting notes below only reflect those people who used the W3C group’s IRC to sign-in)

Objective:

• Collect views on the future of ActivityPub (and related) standardization
• Emerge with some sense of common direction (or be more clear about where disagreements may lie)
• A couple of next steps

Setting the stage:

• Given the turmoil at Twitter, a once-in-a-generation opportunity has opened for decentralized, user-centric social networking
• Networks are valuable; Big Social extracts most of that value
• Big idea: a network where all that value goes to its users; open networks are more valuable;
• Everybody can connect; no gatekeeper
• Informal meeting, no intellectual property will be exchanged

Then, the group decided to proceed as the SWICG has in the past; the remaining meeting notes are on the W3C website: https://www.w3.org/2023/03/29-social-minutes.html