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 centralized social platforms.
The conversation started from a question we think about a lot at the Social Web Foundation: what would it […]
EFFecting Change: How to Build a Decentralized Web that Truly Works for All
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 centralized social platforms.
The conversation started from a question we think about a lot at the Social Web Foundation: what would it take to build an internet where people and communities have real choices about how they participate, where their data lives, and how their digital spaces are governed?
One answer is to fix the old platforms! Mallory’s message was to work on liberating people from the platforms that have walled them off for so long. This might seem like a long shot, but getting incumbents to use open social web protocols (or asking regulators to step in) is a durable and immediate tactic.
Interoperability allows people to connect with the rest of the social web without having to leave their networks.
Watch the full conversation, including audience Q&A: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8G1zqGraRAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8G1zqGraRA
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, and where they find common ground.
In a new piece for Tech Policy Press, Social Web Foundation and FABRIC argue that […]
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, and where they find common ground.
In a new piece for Tech Policy Press, Social Web Foundation and FABRIC argue that context should not remain a proprietary feature trapped inside dominant platforms: it should become an open, provider-agnostic, standardized protocol that works across browsers, publishers, and social networks.
Read “The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol.”
