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   Fediverse Report (fediversereport@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 02:11:52 JST Fediverse Report

   #ActivityPub is getting its first formal update path since 2018. I wrote about why this matters, how this leads to some strange and funny power dynamics, and about who actually participate

   https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-148-on-protocol-governance/

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 04:33:47 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @fediversereport So, I think this is a really interesting article, and I agree that participation and representation matter here.

     I hope that more ActivityPub implementers step up to become W3C members. There are several funded nonprofits and commercial organizations that could probably afford it.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 04:37:00 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     • James M Snell
     • Arnaud J Le Hors
     • Tantek Çelik

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     I think all of the editors and authors of ActivityPub and Activity Streams in the previous iteration of the working group were "invited experts", except one (@jasnell ). One of the chairs (me) was as an invited expert.

     @tantek.com , @lehors and I had a "knock to get invited" policy: anyone who expressed interest in participating in the working group was invited to join. I can't remember a situation where we turned someone down.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 04:40:34 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @fediversereport We also proactively reached out to distributed social network projects and commercial social network implementers. I'd been organizing the Federated Social Web Summit events for a few years, and we'd talked to dozens of different projects, so we had a lot of contacts there.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 04:46:57 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @fediversereport Finally, we've been planning to work in a "staging process", where ideas and changes come from the developer and user communities, through the Community Group, and then optionally go to the Working Group if they need the structure of an official W3C standard.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 04:49:01 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @fediversereport I think that's a really healthy structure. I think it's likely that the Working Group will be focused on upkeep and maintenance of the core docs (ActivityPub and Activity Streams), and the Community Group will work on broader applications of the protocol through extensions.

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     Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 17-Jan-2026 04:55:56 JST Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸

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     @fediversereport I hope people in the ActivityPub community put the invited expert policy to the test. There's a good explanation of the IE role here:

     https://www.w3.org/invited-experts/

     I would be really surprised if qualified ActivityPub specialists are turned down for IE roles!