Everything Big Starts Small: Building Open Social Web Apps

It’s now almost three years since Elon Musk acquired Twitter. Since then the fediverse — a collection of decentralized web products powered by the W3C standard, ActivityPub — has continued to grow. Bluesky’s AT Protocol also has some intriguing new apps. But overall, app development on these protocols is still in a nascent phase. Let’s be frank here: the open social web hasn’t gotten the developer attention it deserves.

This week, I attended the latest edition of FediForum, a two-day virtual event, to find out the latest in open…