ActivityPub community steward

Despite the decentralised nature of the internet, its widely popular application for social media has created highly centralised platform-based networks, where power is concentrated in few hands and participants (‘users’) are subject to the whims of whomever owns the platform. While critique on the situation is prevalent, the network effect has kept many people, organisations and institutions including governments, locked in to these platforms.

The Fediverse has appeared as an alternative to centralised social media, based on W3C ActivityPub, with the convergence of a standard allowing for decentralisation and local autonomy. This project revolves around helping to promote healthy practices and supporting the growth of the wider Fediverse ecosystem via supporting the FEP process, participation in community initiatives and the Social Web Incubator Community Group (SWICG). This involves being available as a facilitator for dialogue, helping to structure discussions and involving relevant stakeholders missing in important dialogues, and linking people and efforts to each other where possible.