Re: SocialHub either shutting down or rebooting in September

I think would be great for SWICG to run a forum for developers about ActivityPub. Maybe we could even use the w3c.social domain...? Or swicg.io?

Evan

On August 1, 2025 10:36:48 AM PDT, Darius Kazemi <darius.kazemi@gmail.com> wrote:
>SocialHub (https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks) has an upcoming forced
>transition on September 10, 2025 when the domain that hosts their email
>service (required for ongoing operation) expires. The maintainer(s) do "not
>intend to renew it unless there is a solid ongoing plan for the community
>for taking over this infrastructure, including financially." Thread here:
>
>https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/socialhub-developer-community-reboot-or-shutdown/5445
>
>There is even some floating of the idea that if SWICG is in charge of
>activitypub.rocks, maybe SWICG could take over stewardship of SocialHub. (I
>personally don't think we have the resources to do this but I wanted to
>point out to the list that the discussion is happening.)
>
>https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/socialhub-developer-community-reboot-or-shutdown/5445/7
>
>I'm curious what Forum Task Force people in particular think about this
>(Julian?). My sense is that with true forum federation the community could
>survive and thrive even after a SocialHub shutdown, with people posting to
>topics from their software/servers of choice. Other people are arguing that
>decentralized discussion will fragment the community even further, or that
>perhaps context collapse between different communities will reduce the
>quality of discussion. There's some discussion here:
>
>https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/against-fragmentation-unifying-dev-discussions-with-forum-federation/5402
>
>Any thoughts? I'm particularly interested in ways SWICG could be of help to
>the community in this moment.
>
>-Darius