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   silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 22:30:57 JST silverpill

   One of the most annoying aspects of the ongoing corporate capture of our network is that protocol-related discussions increasingly happen on Github instead of Fediverse (or friendly platforms like SocialHub and Codeberg).

   Today's example: https://github.com/swicg/groups

   Why use Github to talk about federated groups when we have federated groups right here in Fediverse? That makes no sense. But some self-appointed "leads" decided to create a repo anyway.

   Similar Github repos ("task forces") also exist for other protocol features. I don't see any reason to legitimize this by participating and hope that other developers will do the same.

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 23:18:12 JST silverpill

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     • Jupiter Rowland

     @jupiter_rowland The people who created this repo are aware that federated groups exist. They just want to centralize and gatekeep everything.

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     Jupiter Rowland (jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 23:18:13 JST Jupiter Rowland

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     @silverpill Another case of people who don't know the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. Or, at most, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube and maybe Threads.
     
     Since none of these have groups, these people firmly believe that the Fediverse itself doesn't have any.
     
     I have a GitHub account for bug-reporting purposes. Shall I barge in and tell them?
     
     #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #FediGroups #FediverseGroups
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     deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:25:26 JST deutrino

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     • Jupiter Rowland

     @jupiter_rowland just popping in to tell you I recently became a fan of your relentless roasting of Mastodon's corrosive influence on the fediverse as a whole after reading a few hellthreads @silverpill

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 05:25:26 JST silverpill

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     • deutrino
     • Jupiter Rowland

     @deutrino Yes @jupiter_rowland is our hero

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     silverpill (silverpill@mitra.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 08:44:28 JST silverpill

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     • Phantasm

     @phnt This was a name of the community group at W3C back then when they worked on ActivityPub. No idea why it hasn't been renamed

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 08:44:29 JST Phantasm

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     @silverpill
     >Social Web Incubator
     The fuck does this even mean.