A new project launching today aims to capitalize on the momentum seen within the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which describes interconnected social networking services powered by the ActivityPub protocol. Co-founded by the co-author and current editor of ActivityPub, Evan Prodromou, a new nonprofit organization called the Social Web Foundation will focus on expanding the fediverse, improving ActivityPub and the user experience, informing policymakers, and educating people about the fediverse and how they can participate.
Wouldn’t be too bad if they just host threads and abide by ActivityPub without getting hands on, but they clearly want to shape it how they want.
I have a feeling this could very well end up in similar fashion to g*gle talk and IRC. Let’s hope it doesn’t, but I don’t have enough faith in large companies not trying to completely destroy the Fediverse for profit.