====== Social Networking ======
A working group of [[Start|Merri-bek Tech]] focused on creating an alternative digital public square to corporate controlled social media platforms.

==== Open actions ====
  * Validate the [[platform_vision_guide|Vision]] with others at Merri-bek Tech
  * Identify leading candidate technologies (select from e.g. Mastodon; Bonfire; Lemmy; Matrix; Bulletin Board + ActivityPub, e.g. NodeBB, Discourse, LemmyBB)
 

==== Next steps ====
  * Prepare the use cases / user stories for comparing options
  * Compare options, identify preferred option
  * Plan for Alpha test
  * Alpha test preferred option 


===== Technology =====
  * [[Mastodon Test Instance]]

===== Working Docs =====

  - [[Technology Assessment Checklist]]
  - [[platform_vision_guide|Vision]]

===== Meetings =====
  * [[SocNet Meeting 2025-03-30]] (no minutes)
  * [[SocNet Meeting 2025-06-07]]
  * [[SocNet Meeting 2025-09-21]]