The latest from the Open Social Web.
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Evan Prodromou on “Search Engine”
A few months back, we posted about the new Fediverse instance called “the Forkiverse“. This is a Mastodon instance started…
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Internationalized Webfinger Handles in ActivityPub
ActivityPub software usually (but not always!) uses a handle format defined by RFC 7033, Webfinger, which looks like username@domain.example. There’s…
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Static ActivityPub Publishing
One of the requests I (Evan) have heard often over the years about ActivityPub is to make publishing on the…
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New York Fediverse Meetup Friday 14 Aug 2026 7PM
Mallory and I (Evan) will both be at HOPE in New York tomorrow. Mallory is giving a talk on I-Stars:…
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Evan Prodromou at Fedicon 2026
This is a quick reminder that I (Evan) will be speaking about 10 Ways to Grow the Fediverse at Fedicon…
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New in Tech Policy Press, “The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol”
Years of thinking from scholars like Francis Fukuyama and Renée DiResta have gone into what are called “middleware” solutions to…