Re: SocialHub either shutting down or rebooting in September

so 2. 8. 2025 v 13:53 odesílatel emelia <emelia@brandedcode.com> napsal:

> For what it's worth, I hold the swicg.org and socialcg.org domains, I
> also have socialhub.rocks
>

Hi Emelia

Perhaps it might be worth putting some content on swicg.org.  Recently Manu
made this for the W3C CCG:

https://w3c-ccg.org/

Might be an idea to do something similar for the SWICG.

Best
Melvin


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> — Emelia
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> On 1. Aug 2025, at 21:22, Evan Prodromou <evan@prodromou.name> wrote:
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> 
> 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
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> On August 1, 2025 10:36:48 AM PDT, Darius Kazemi <darius.kazemi@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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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