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Stephen Downes

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I wrote about the Social Web Foundation (SWF) last week and suggested there's some controversy about whether the term 'social web' refers to the entire fediverse or to ActivityPub implementations alone. This post is an instance of that controversy boiling over. I'm always wary of attempting to place the governance of a decentralized network under a single entity, despite the calls for governance, coordination and organization around a collective purpose. 

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