As part of the work on Fediverse sustainability announced earlier this year, the Social Web Foundation is running our first Fediverse Sustainability Survey . We’re seeking operators, moderators and administrators of Fediverse sites, from the smallest to the largest, to fill out the anonymous survey and share information about how their instances work. If you help run an instance, please take the 10-15 minutes needed to fill out the survey. We need a _lot_ of responses (hundreds!) to get statistically relevant data, so please feel free to share the link. We’re also on the lookout for operators of instances that are no longer running; there is a lot to learn about sustainability from servers that closed down, for whatever reason. We’ll publish findings here as part of our sustainability report, supplemented by interviews with selected respondents. Thanks!

The Open Payments SDK Grant Program offers $5,000–$50,000 in funding for projects that improve the developer experience of integrating Open Payments into applications and e-commerce platforms. Focused on SDK generation from the OpenAPI specification using tools like Kiota, this program supports scalable, consistent API integrations that reduce technical complexity and accelerate adoption of open payments technology.

Open protocol for connecting different payment networks (reference implementation: https://github.com/interledgerjs) - Interledger

The internet isn’t truly free: we “pay” with our time, attention, and data, which fuel platforms designed to capture and manipulate us. Alternatives like Web Monetization aim to restore privacy, fairness, and control by letting users directly support creators.