Social Networking

A working group of Merri-bek Tech focused on creating an alternative digital public square to corporate controlled social media platforms.

• Validate the 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)

• Prepare the use cases / user stories for comparing options
• Compare options, identify preferred option
• Plan for Alpha test
• Alpha test preferred option

• Mastodon Test Instance

1. Technology Assessment Checklist
2. Vision

• SocNet Meeting 2025-03-30 (no minutes)
• SocNet Meeting 2025-06-07
• SocNet Meeting 2025-09-21