Big news for Mastodon GmbH. They have formally joined forces with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

If you’re not in the design/tech world, trust me when I say this is a big step for the fediverse. The W3C establishes the standards used for the internet.

This is a solid path forward for small tech.

github.com/w3c/socialwg/blob/m

By the way. They announced this new working group back in January:

socialwebfoundation.org/2026/0

My original link was for the group’s kick-off meeting. I should have linked to the announcement as well.

I hope it went well, @dariusDarius Kazemi! Thanks for being the chair. 👏🏻

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