You can't count all the sites on the open web or all the users on #ActivityPub servers because they are decentralized. Yet #bluesky is now displaying their number of users by the second as they race to 21m. They really are "special".

But every other corporate platform has that information too. It's how they sell themselves to VCs and advertisers. #SocialWeb

"Open social media offers a chance to escape the cycle of good product turns bad product and wiping the slate clean to start again. Instead, open social media offers the chance to build in a space where you can easily hop-skip-jump to the next best platform without losing your community."

Check out what @saskia had to say about Bluesky continuing to grow.

forbetter.ghost.io/even-more-b…

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Bluesky #X #OpenSocial #SocialWeb #Tech

Even more Bluesky Growth

Bluesky is breaking ceiling after ceiling for open social media. It's getting a bit boring now isn't it? We've all heard about the success of Bluesky. I mean, even ITV News did a segment on it.

^{Saskia (FORbetter)}

Mark Hamill joined Bluesky.
Stephen King joined Threads.
The Fediverse has Linus Torvalds and Tim Berners-Lee.

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Bluesky #Threads #Mastodon

It really is like 2010, I'm posting the same stuff on 4 different platforms.

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia

on a decentralized network, all the posts have to be pulled together (and managed somewhat) for you somewhere.

#bluesky / #ATproto does it with the relay they control. #ActivityPub / #mastodon does it via the server your account is on. #nostr lets you use multiple relays but then your client also does some of it afaik.

the question seems to be how much of that work do people want to do themselves vs sharing the cost and time involved. what are the tradeoffs in freedom and control? #SocialWeb

@helge
Well, there is general interest to explore greenfield #SocialWeb protocols, for example expressed by @jenniferplusplus or @hrefna (#FeatherPub)

I don't know if there's enough alignment to form a group. But I can offer fedi.foundation as multi-author dev portal to help inspire such social web exploration.

Social Networking Reimagined

Welcome to Federated Diversity Foundation. The place where Social Coding meets the Fediverse.

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Check out @steve on #SocialHub with a proposal to work on #ActivityPub #C2S, the client-to-server Social API part of the #W3C Recommendation.

The Social API didn't get much uptake on the #Fediverse where generally the #Mastodon API is used (and abused) for client/server communication.

It is not because the Social API isn't good, just that no one ever did the legwork to mature this part of the spec.

Are you interested in C2S and help push the #SocialWeb?

More info:

socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/…

NextGen ActivityPub Social API

The current ActivityPub Social API (C2S API) is not widely implemented in servers and almost no clients exist for it.

^SocialHub