I'm going to be participating in the Growing the Open Social Web workshop at Fediforum on March 2, 2026. I'm excited to talk to other people who care about the Fediverse about ways to connect more people through ActivityPub.

Fediforum invited attendees to publish position papers before the workshop. SWF has a number of hypotheses about growth of the social web; I'll try to summarise some of them here.

Growth can't come at the expense of privacy. People currently on the Fediverse must have […]