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[Agenda preparation for the April ForumWG meeting can be found at this public link]() (anyone can make comments for review.) Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 17h00 to 18h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held on 7 August 2025. We will be discussing: * FEP 7888/f228 adoption update * Context Inheritance * Context Ownership * Merging of Contexts (aka "cross-posting")
As I write this, I'm sitting on an airplane flying over the Canadian prairies on my way home from Vancouver, BC. What an amazing group of individuals, who took the time out of their extraordinarily busy lives to see, hear, and learn about the fediverse! The connections made and ideas discussed were so important, and you could feel the energy in the air. You'd think after a solid six hours a day in a lecture hall would be enough, but at every opportunity in between, there were lively discussions about ActivityPub and the fediverse. It turns out when you get all of us in a group together we can talk and continue to talk about the open social web for ages. I now have a to-do list about a kilometer long, they all need to get done ASAP! Thank you to [reiver@mastodon.social]() for organizing this conference, all of those who helped out and participated, and all those who attended. From now on, whenever someone points a camera to me, I'll picture [jaz@toot.wales]() saying "say _FEEEEEEDIVERSE_". ![aa169c4f07c0eee31f441f504fb81f7345fa73643dd0bd124218a824f1209991.jpg](image) ![1000004433.jpg](image) ![1000004434.jpg](image) ![f2e1b240a34d9454.jpg](image)
![1000004314.jpg](image) Let's get this party started! **Day 1 of FediCon**
This question was asked by [mike@flipboard.social]() on Dot Social's latest episode about the blogosphere on Fedi. [johnonolan@mastodon.xyz](): "we wanted to connect Ghost blogs to each other, but then we discovered ActivityPub" [pfefferle@mastodon.social](): "we wanted to connect WordPress blogs to each other, and ActivityPub has been the most successful attempt" _[paraphrased for brevity]_ Did you catch the subtext? Both those answers, and **my own answer with NodeBB** contain the same seed idea... that we originally wanted to connect our software **with itself only**. We went through years of building a company and vying for profitability that it never occurred to us to work towards cross compatibility with anyone besides out own software. Then ActivityPub came along and quite literally expanded the potential for the entire endeavour a hundred-fold, because not only are you connecting your own software to each other, but every other ActivityPub enabled software in existence. Blogs, microblogs, forums, image boards, etc. all with a built-in user base ready from the get-go. It's no wonder that after discovering AP, it becomes _the_ protocol to utilise.