Re: SocialHub either shutting down or rebooting in September

On Fri, 01 Aug 2025 12:22:16 -0700
Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:

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

Yes, great! But maybe not limited to developers.

> Or swicg.io?

please no new (tld) domains.

ActivityPub.Rocks is referred to in https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#:~:text=activitypub.rocks, so those URLs should at least redirect to sensible URLs anyway. I assume the long term sustainability to have "cool uris" in a spec was considered when writing the standard back then. Anyway, it should be now.

So,
- who funds the domain cost
- who controls the redirects
- where should they point

Which leads back to "who stewards the forum and on what funding". Ideally a small institutional body or a few individuals (3?). And - what expectations should the forum address. Can it be aligned with the activitypub website targeting the broader public, which IMO is in the making, is it? (That's happening on a non-federated, for-profit, corporate AI harvester website. I avoid such.)

Marcus

Received on Saturday, 2 August 2025 08:43:12 UTC