Re: SocialHub either shutting down or rebooting in September

pá 1. 8. 2025 v 21:23 odesílatel Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name>
napsal:

> 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
> ?
>

Just a quick note, I’d really prefer not to start yet another domain.

I’d be happy to help here. I’ve got quite a bit of sysadmin experience,
have run a forum before, and even wrote the first SSO module for OpenID. I
was also in the working group that created ActivityPub.

That said, I do think SocialHub and W3C spaces serve different roles and
should stay separate. SocialHub’s openness and diversity are strengths,
including allowing pseudonymous participation, while W3C tends to have
stricter norms and expectations.

Happy to support wherever useful.


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> 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
>>
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