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      <description>This isn&amp;rsquo;t a speculative concept name. The open social web is what the people building this architecture call it: ActivityPub, Mastodon, the AT Protocol, Threads federating, and the W3C standards work underneath all of it.
Major platforms have now committed to federation, which moves the field from advocacy to infrastructure. That shift is what makes the definitional domain valuable, because the canonical address for a category gets claimed early or disappears into a portfolio permanently once the category matures.</description>
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      <description>There is always a new one. The database world has been in continuous ferment for fifteen years and the question of which to use gets asked constantly, mostly answered with fragmented information and vendor-authored material.
New DB is how engineers actually talk about that state of affairs.
On the .org the open-source and community readings come forward, which is where a great deal of the significant work happens. Many of the most important databases are foundation-governed open source, and that world uses this extension as a matter of course.</description>
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      <description>SQL dialects differ in ways that cause real pain, and a neutral body documenting that would be valuable. Compatibility is the most useful reading here.
On the .org the open-source angle comes forward, and that&amp;rsquo;s where a great deal of the interesting work in this space actually happens. Several of the most significant database projects are foundation-governed open source, and that world uses this extension as standard.
The ecosystem justifies the attention.</description>
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