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About 14 years ago, I created a webfinger package for NodeJS. At the time, NodeJS was only a few years old. I had created pump.io as a new social networking engine and the successor to StatusNet. I needed a client for webfinger lookup — the process of converting a user@domain.tld handle to a API endpoint…
This week, Social Web Foundation Executive Director Mallory Knodel joined EFF’s Babette Ngene and public interest technologist Bruce Schneier for a conversation about how to build a decentralized web that truly works for all. The discussion was part of EFF’s EFFecting Change series and explored what the fediverse can offer as an alternative to today’s…
One of the requests I (Evan) have heard often over the years about ActivityPub is to make publishing on the Fediverse as easy as publishing with RSS. To make an RSS feed for a person or a site, a publisher provides, dynamically or even statically, a single file, with a simple format, and makes it…
Mallory and I (Evan) will both be at HOPE in New York tomorrow. Mallory is giving a talk on I-Stars: Protocols and Power on the main stage which looks awesome. I’ll be holding a workshop to help people Get on the Fediverse Already – setting up their Fediverse accounts for the first time. Since we’re…
This is a quick reminder that I (Evan) will be speaking about 10 Ways to Grow the Fediverse at Fedicon 2026. Fedicon is a fantastic event in Vancouver, colocated with FOSSY, that brings together some of the most interesting people working on the Fediverse today. I’m excited about talking about Fediverse growth, but I’m equally…
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