Big news for Mastodon GmbH.

[markwyner@mas.to]

Big news for Mastodon GmbH. They have formally joined 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.

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[slothrop@chaos.social]

@markwyner Great!

And kudos to whoever of the team subjects themselves to sitting through all those standards committee meetings

[bob@beamship.mpaq.org]

@markwyner

I keep hoping they stop selling code to MicroShit

[mastodonmigration@mastodon.online]

@markwyner

️ Fantastic news!

[julf@social.secret-wg.org]

@markwyner "The W3C establishes the standards used for the internet." Well, some standards, but it is mostly the IETF that establishes the standards used for the internet.

[hackillu@mas.to]

@markwyner How does Mastodon or the Internet benefit?

[wheresalice@woof.tech]

@markwyner hmm, maybe. There's a lot of other applications using activitypub and a lot of other experts, and we really need them to join too so that this doesn't become a mastodon-controlled group