<p>In August 2019, a offered their services to completely revamp the documentation for Mastodon, while also writing or rewriting significant portions of it. From the beginning, they developed an information architecture based on the various user personas that would be reading the documentation -- end users, administrators, contributors, client developers, and protocol implementers. a developed each persona into a section with its own narrative journey. Following this, they wrote out the missing parts of the documentation.</p>
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a was contracted again in late 2022 to help update the content of the documentation for the monumentous v4.0 update of Mastodon.</p>
<p>a has been active in the world of open source and free software since at least 2017. As a power user, a quickly got involved in discussions on the GitHub issue tracker for Mastodon, Pixelfed, and other fediverse projects. a is a member of the Social Web Community Group at the W3C, and is also active on the <ahref="https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/u/trwnh/summary">SocialHub forum</a> for the ActivityPub community.</p>
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<h4>Fediverse Enhancement Proposals</h4>
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<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/7888">FEP-7888: Demystifying the context property</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/7458">FEP-7458: Using the replies collection</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/0391">FEP-0391: Special collection proofs</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/fb2a">FEP-fb2a: Actor metadata</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/888d">FEP-888d: Using https://w3id.org/fep as a base for FEP-specific namespaces</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/bad1">FEP-bad1: Object history collection</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/7502">FEP-7502: Limiting visibility to authenticated actors</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/e229">FEP-e229: Best practices for extensibility</a></li>
<li><ahref="https://w3id.org/fep/a070">FEP-a070: Ordered properties for plain JSON consumers</a></li>
<p>For the past few years, I've been developing a theoretical framework for unified social communications across various protocols. I'd like to collect my ideas into writings that will be published on this site or elsewhere.</p>