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2link: https://socialwebfoundation.org/
3tags:
4 - organization
5 - nonprofit
6 - ActivityPub
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8> Social networks have transformed the way we communicate, bringing new opportunities and new problems. Now they’re evolving once more – into open and decentralized spaces that no one organization controls.
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10> The Social Web Foundation works to grow this new ecosystem in an open, healthy, and sustainable way—working with technologists and the public to build a new global town square that works for everyone.
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12## Mission
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14> The Social Web Foundation’s mission is a growing, healthy, sustainable and multi-polar Fediverse
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16Specifically [defines Fediverse](https://socialwebfoundation.org/what-is-the-fediverse/) as being [[ActivityPub]] based:
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18> The _Fediverse_, also known as the _social web_, is a network of independent social platforms connected by the open standard protocol ActivityPub.
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20> Users on a participating platform can follow their friends or interesting people on _any other platform_ on the network — liking, commenting, sharing and posting together.