February 2026 ForumWG Meeting
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 18h00 to 19h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (today) on 5 February 2026.
Meeting link: https://meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg
There is no set agenda for this month's meeting.
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How to Install Pleroma on Ubuntu VPS (5 Minute Quick-Start Guide)
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@FinchHaven The design is not specific to #atproto (although the article uses that implementation as an example). The W3C Solid project ( @Solid ) uses a very similar approach with Linked Data. I've seen recent mentions of exploring this type of architecture for the Fediverse too. Do you know of any reason it couldn't be done with #ActivityPub? This is where the imagination is required.
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7.9.0 — Spring Cleaning 🪣🧹
Version 7.9.0 is a spring-cleaning release for ActivityPub for WordPress. Custom Fediverse emoji now render properly, profile and following blocks make it easier to build richer identity pages, and new health checks improve reliability. Alongside performance tweaks and many fixes, this update focuses on polish, stability, and smoother everyday federation.https://activitypub.blog/2026/02/05/7-9-0-spring-cleaning-%f0%9f%aa%a3%f0%9f%a7%b9/

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/115945290105913697
The resolving of a Fediverse ID to one or more cryptographic public-keys could happen via the activity-file for the user.
A JSON-LD namespace (separate from ActivityPub) could put the cryptographic public-keys into the activity-file.
But, I think we would need more information than what the 2 current methods for including cryptographic public-keys currently support.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/115945290105913697
Right now, Fediverse IDs resolve to HTTPS URLs.
For example, the Fediverse ID:
@reiver@mastodon.social
Resolves to HTTPS URL:
https;//mastodon·social/users/reiver
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If we wanted cryptographic public-keys to serve as a basis of Identity on the Fediverse, then —
We would (similarly) also need a Fediverse ID to resolve to one or more cryptographic public-keys
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I dream of being able to store my online social presence, identity, and history just as — an (organized) set of static files.
A set that I control.
And, I can (if I want to) host myself. (I.e., I am the "source of truth" / "origin" for my files.)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@reiver/116018261922778583
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If you cannot get (most) regular people to write JSON-LD, JSON, or even HTML —
But, you might be able to get them (regular people) to write something similar to Markdown and INI —
Then, are there ways you could (explicitly or implicitly) encode JSON-LD type information, such as ActivityPub, into a Markdown-like to INI-like file — in a way where they (regular people) would likely include it?
I suspect — probably yes.
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