Updates from our blog

We publish a range of updates about the activities of the foundation. You can find them all here.

  • Help HOPE Hackers Hop Onto the Fediverse

    On Friday, August 14, 2026 at the HOPE conference in New York City, we’ll be running a workshop to help new people join the Fediverse. This is an exciting first for us, and we’d love your help making it a great experience. Here’s what we need: Please reply to this post with ideas or contact…

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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 content moderation. With Evan Friedman from FABRIC, this is our contribution to the solution space—a standardized protocol suite to facilitate an opt-in way of seeing how different communities understand the same story, where they disagree,…

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  • Unsubscribing tags.pub from Open Registration Relays

    A relay server is a server that collects public content from many Fediverse servers and distributes it to the other servers. tags.pub , the global hashtag server run by the Social Web Foundation, can follow relay servers and boost any tagged content coming from the connected servers. Especially for relay servers that gather together content…

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  • SWF at UN Open Source Week

    I (Evan) will be at UN Open Source Week this week. I am not speaking, but I’ll be meeting with others in the space. If you’re at the conference and want to meet, please let me know!

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  • We Are Everywhere: The Social Web Foundation’s 2025 Annual Report

    Into our second year our mission to foster an open, decentralized, and user-centric social web continues. SWF are official W3C members, we have secure core as well as project support through 2026 and, well, we have been all over the world talking about the fediverse. Today we are publishing our 2025 Annual Report to spotlight…

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