By the way, did you know the next #FediForum is coming up?
October 6 & 7. Online. Registration is open.
FediForum
Moving the Open Social Web forward.
Join us at our next unconference, online?
Website: https://fediforum.org
Social media is in a crisis. The data is accumulating. Here is one: https://blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/
We need better forms of interacting online than what the big platforms give us. And group chat is certainly not the final answer.
Anybody working on this? Yes! And you can meet some of us at #FediForum! 1/3
How does AT Protocol (#ATProto) really work?
Listen to Bluesky head of protocol @dholms.at given at the last FediForum:
7/7/2026, 3 engagements
Congratulations to:
Sill.social
for winning an Excellence Award as part of the Open Social Awards today.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116697945683857980
FediForum is one of the supporters of the European Social Stack declaration that was published today.
in the cooperative spirit of FediForum, we are glad that so many -- often competing -- organizations are coming together to the common cause of advancing better forms of social media in Europe.
Kudos to many to make this happen, but particularly to
and
who spearheaded it.
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6/5/2026, 1 engagement
Next FediForum, the online unconference to move the Open Social Web Forward will be:
October 6-7, 2026, online.
Mark your calendars! And registration is open. More info: http://fediforum.org/2026-10/
5/26/2026, 1 engagement
Bonfire Mosaic is co-designing federated groups and publisher tools with Jacobin DE & Totnes Pulse.They showed off federated groups and new publisher tools, including embeddable federated comment threads for blogs and CMS sites, at the most recent #FediForum.
By Ivan Minutillo & Mayel de Borniol, Bonfire creators/maintainers
https://spectra.video/w/hV9wzGzsXvNjgXtVg3uS2i
/cc
FediForum Connect curates sites, apps, and more that mission-aligned organizations might want to use to join the open social web.
Johannes Ernst demo'd it recently at #FediForum.
https://spectra.video/w/3Nwk9AHhGakixfS7RYkQVg
/cc
How do you keep out the spammers from registering at your Mastodon instance, but still keep registration open?
At #FediForum, Stefan Hayden demo'd a new tool for helping with that.
https://spectra.video/w/t5jf78RuFmx4GqDgny4EZA
/cc
Have you ever wondered how #ActivityPub actually works?
This presentation by Evan Prodromou from #FediForum should answer your questions in 30 minutes.
https://spectra.video/w/s8DKnnaPFw2b1JS8zD5VE8
/cc
5/5/2026, 1 engagement
And this was it for FediForum Day 3, and all of FediForum Spring 2026. Thanks to everybody who came, who demo'd, who presented, and the wonderful, and wonderfully intense and respectful and constructive discussions about all aspects of the Open Social Web that happened over the past three half-days.
As usual, there is so much left to discuss! But don't worry, there will be a next #FediForum. If you want to be notified when registration opens, leave your info here: https://apps.fediforum.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/s/ci4R7TZnNEzDiXHDyFPQcM2G
And this was FediForum Day 2.
After collaborative agenda making, we had a great fireside chat with MEP Kim van Sparrentalk, who works at the frontier of digital sovereignty in the EU, followed by many unconference sessions over the rest of the day.
We will reconvene for Day 3 tomorrow.
4/29/2026, 1 engagement
#FediForum Day 2 starts in one hour!
Join the global community discussing, teaching and learning, and moving the Open Social Web forward, towards better ways of interacting online than with oligarch-controled closed social platforms.
You can still join us: https://fediforum.org
And that was FediForum Spring 2026 day 1.
Great demos, amazing conversations. At least that is what we heard attendees say during closing session!
See you tomorrow for day 2!!
4/28/2026, 2 engagements
ivan minutillo (
) is going to demo their software at #FediForum, and also wants to learn more about:
Governance and community tools
Look for Bonfire in our speed demo track! https://fediforum.org
Imani Joy, Head of Design at Mastodon
will demo some recent feature additions and UX improvements introduced to Mastodon 4.5 and 4.6, as well as the rationale behind many of these changes.
And run an unconference session after, in case you want to discuss with Imani!
At #FediForum next week, online. Registration is still open: https://fediforum.org
The #FediForum keynote on Wednesday will be by Alexandra Geese, who is a member of the EU parliament and a key mover and shaker towards decentralized, better social media and digital independence from the big social platforms.
If you don't live in the EU and like to know what their thinking is -- or if you live in the EU! -- join us next week Tuesday to Thursday! This keynote is on Wednesday.
Registration is still open: http://fediforum.org
At #FediForum next week, Ben Pate
will give us a demo with a peek preview of end-to-end encrypted messaging Emissary and Bandwagon are building on top of ActivityPub.
#E2E is coming!
Want to see? Be there at the speed demo track in the first hour of https://fediforum.org
When people register for #FediForum, we ask them what sessions they'd like to attend or run. (Remember, FediForum is an unconference where attendees -- like you -- bring the topics they are most interested in.)
Here is a long list of things they said we could publish: https://fediforum.org/2026-04/#topics
Darius Kazemi
is coming to #FediForum mostly to meet and connect with like-minded people.
He's also the chair of the newly created ActivityPub working group in the W3C, and maybe we can talk him into running a Q&A session on that during FediForum!
Jaz-Michael King (
) is coming to #FediForum and wants to learn more about:
Trust & safety projects and initiatives; digital sovereignty issues; regulatory compliance; improving access to social web for broad audiences; funding opportunities for institutions and organisations building and protecting the social web.
Join us April 28-30, online? https://fediforum.org
We are proud to announce .... FediForum Connect!
It's a new, curated website that will hopefully make it easier for mission-aligned organizations, communities and creators to join the Open Social Web.
What does this mean? Read our blog post: https://fediforum.org/news/2026-04-14-announcing-fediforum-connect/
4/14/2026, 2 engagements
We are extremely happy that Alexandra Geese, member of the European parliament and outspoken advocate for better social media, digital sovereignty, participatory democracy and more will be giving the keynote at the next #FediForum April 28-30, 2026.
Join us? It's online! https://fediforum.org
Consider following her: she has active accounts on both Mastodon
and Eurosky @alexandrageese.eurosky.social!
I guess we are all set for tomorrow's un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web.
It's a bit of experiment. Un-conferences are bad enough :-) and now we are doing an un-workshop! We'll try and marry the high-intensity peer conversations of an unconference with the well-thought-out proposals of a workshop. We need both to make tangible progress on plans for how to grow. In theory, that should work out just fine. In practice: we'll find out! 1/2
3/2/2026, 1 engagement
We received about forty submissions for the upcoming #FediForum unworkshop on "Growing the Open Social Web" by Monday's deadline. That means submissions from about half of the people who have registered so far, and should make for a great conversation!
Happy reading! https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers
Today's the deadline for the position statements for the Growing the Open Social Web workshop!
Check out (most) of what's been submitted so far: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers
About 1 of =3 of attendees registered so far have sent something: everybody else, this is your chance to have yourself heard!
2/16/2026, 1 engagement
The first position statements for our upcoming un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web are in. We have added them to https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers
Agree? Disagree? Have something to add? Submit your own position statement as part of your registration!
This un-workshop will focus on what You think.
1/28/2026, 1 engagement
Lots of Open Social Web events are coming up.
- Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM, Brussels, this Saturday.
- Protocols for Publishers, London, Feb 4-5.
- FediMTL, Montreal, Feb 24
- and then our own Growing the Open Social Web workshop, online, March 2.
- ...
We track them at: https://fediforum.org/events/
1/26/2026, 2 engagements
On March 2, we are going to try something different. Something in addition to the regular twice/year FediForum un-conference (so don't worry).
We will run an un-workshop, on a topic that many in the community have told us is very pressing for them:
How do we grow the Open Social Web?
When Elon bought Twitter now over three years ago, and every time X has been rocked by scandal since, many people expected a big exodus to decentralized social media platforms based on open protocols. 1/3
At the Fediverse track at SFSCon last month, Johannes Ernst spoke about:
From the Fediverse to the Open Social Web: Towards the Digital Freedom to Subscribe, Communicate and Interact Across the Entire Web
Recording and other talks: https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/
12/17/2025, 1 engagement
In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Sandra Barthel spoke about:
From Open Source to Open Spaces: The Fediverse and the Future of Public Digital Infrastructure
https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/
#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb
12/11/2025, 1 engagement
In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, Mayel de Borniol and Ivan Minutillo spoke about:
Bonfire: Public Interest Social Networks
https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/
#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb #bonfire
First WebSocialBR – Brazilian Fediverse Forum event in Brasil coming up on December 3rd. We are glad to support the event.
11/20/2025, 1 engagement
SFSCon starts one week from right now.
The FediForum/Fediverse track is in the afternoon of day 1.
We will also have a BOF session on day 2.
And a demo area!
Will great to see all you Italian and European Fediverse enthusiasts in Bolzano!
10/31/2025, 1 engagement
Less than 10 days until SFSCon and the Fediverse track we are organizing there. Looking forward to many interesting presentations from technology to public policy, from community building to the future of the Open Social Web.
See you in Bolzano?
10/28/2025, 1 engagement
The Open Social Web is for far more than just social media.
In this #FediForum demo,
shows AltStore, an alternative app store for iOS, and how it connects developers, apps, users and their feedback in new ways that open up so many possibilities.
10/21/2025, 2 engagements
Fediverse platforms don't have to be monolithic.
Here's
showing off the new plugin architecture for Castopod in a #FediForum demo.
Social media does not have to be on a public town square, or manipulate you.
Here's
's demo at #FediForum showing off Frequency Social, a federated, privacy-first social networking app.
10/17/2025, 1 engagement
"The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now."
Amazing keynote from
at last week's #FediForum, reminding us all that what we are building here is critical for the world at this moment in time, and also some good advice on how to solve the right problems.
10/15/2025, 2 engagements
The keynote and demo recordings, as well as session notes, from FediForum October 2025 are now online.
Checkout our website https://fediforum.org, which also has links to our PeerTube and YouTube channels.
10/14/2025, 2 engagements
Very nice writeup by
for The New Stack on what happened at #FediForum this week, and why the Open Social Web (should) matter to #developers.
https://thenewstack.io/everything-big-starts-small-building-open-social-web-apps/
10/9/2025, 1 engagement
It's a wrap for FediForum Day 2, and the entire October 2025 FediForum. We had a blast, and attendees have told us the same.
Next: meet in-person in South Tyrol in Northern Italy in about a month at sfscon.it.
And to be notified of the next online FediForum: https://apps.fediforum.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/aC9dJyn26y469XcB/submit
We will publish the meeting notes and the recordings of the keynote and demos as soon as we can. Follow this account and our PeerTube account to learn when:
10/8/2025, 1 engagement
FediForum Day 2 is going to start in about one hour!
We'll start with some very cool, fast, software demos, showing off open social web software you may not have seen, and then have three time slots for parallel unconference sessions. Bring your topics!
You can still join: https://fediforum.org
10/8/2025, 1 engagement
FediForum, the online event that brings together the people who move the Open Social Web forward, starts in one hour!
We expect a number of rather interesting announcements. If you are registered, you get a heads-up just about now by e-mail.
You can still join us, online! https://fediforum.org
10/7/2025, 1 engagement
Babette Knauer (
) is coming to FediForum and says:
I’d love to discuss (and/or host a session on) digital sovereignty in academic organizations and the role the fediverse can play.
FediForum starts tomorrow! But you can still sign up: https://fediforum.org
10/6/2025, 1 engagement
The schedule and sessions proposed so far has been updated for next week's online FediForum. Check it out!
Anything sound interesting? Join us: https://fediforum.org/2025-10/
Or are we missing something important? Join us, too, and run the session you want to see! FediForum is an #unconference!
10/2/2025, 1 engagement
Ben Werdmuller (
) is of course keynoting this #FediForum, and he also wants to participate in sessions that cover:
Human-centered design, research, and building communities that people want.
FediForum starts on Tuesday! Join us, online! https://fediforum.org
Alexis Bushnell (
), who invented #FediForumFriday at the last #FediForum is again coming to FediForum next week and wants to talk about:
- building community on the open social web - something around making it more community focused than trying to replicated mainstream platforms.
(cont)
10/2/2025, 1 engagement
Jaz-Michael King (
) is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about:
Open social trust and safety
Join us Tuesday and Wednesday? https://fediforum.org
10/1/2025, 1 engagement
Ivan Minutillo
is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:
Open science network 1.0rc Bonfire social 1.0 stable release
Did you see his amazing demo last time? https://spectra.video/w/4hAQxgb22h1iMxfjrKx4QB
Can't wait for an update! Join us! https://fediforum.org
And we are under way. FediForum special event:
Robert W. Gehl introduces his new Fediverse book: “Move Slowly and Build Bridges”
You can still join us. It's free
https://fediforum.org/news/2025-09-04-robert-gehl-move-slowly-and-build-bridges-special-event/
FediForum special event starting in two hours!
You can still participate!
More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/news/2025-09-04-robert-gehl-move-slowly-and-build-bridges-special-event/
How did the #Fediverse become what it is today? Have you ever wondered?
recently published a book chronicling and analyzing the fediverse, and he'll come and tell us all about it, this Thursday for an hour.
Join us for this free FediForum online event. https://fediforum.org/news/2025-09-04-robert-gehl-move-slowly-and-build-bridges-special-event/
FediForum special event next week!
Join us for an hour with Robert W. Gehl, who wrote a great new book about the Fediverse: "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the struggle for democratic social media."
Come and hear excerpts from the book, and ask questions! We read the book and he has lots of fascinating insights to tell.
More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/news/2025-09-04-robert-gehl-move-slowly-and-build-gridges-special-event/
Registration is free!
9/4/2025, 2 engagements
Brazil is starting to require age verification for social media sites, following other jurisdictions like the US state of Mississippi.
FediForum advisory board member
and his organization, Alquimídia, are organizing an online meetup TOMORROW to discuss the impact of this new law on Fediverse instances in Brazil and what instance operators need to do.
More info and registration: https://alquimidia.org/reuniao-pl-2628-2022/
#ageverification #fediforum #fediverse #brazil
What are subjects related to the #Fediverse, #Bluesky, and the entire open social web that are at the top of your mind now, in late summer 2025?
How could we get them best covered at FediForum in October?
At the last FediForum, we saw the premiere of the amazing Fediverse movie by @_elena.
We can't promise something as amazing, but if you care about better social media, chances are you will love FediForum in October.
Join us! https://fediforum.org
https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN?start=0s
Can #enshittification be stopped and reversed?
lays out how to in his recent #FediForum keynote.
The key ingredient: the political will to require account portability.
7/15/2025, 2 engagements
News: FediForum is partnering with free software conference SFSCON on a Fediverse track (and more!) at their in-person conference in November, in beautiful Bolzano in the Italian alps.
Want to present or demo? Let us know. More info:
https://fediforum.org/news/2025-07-09-fediforum-partners-with-sfscon-november-2025-bolzano/
7/10/2025, 1 engagement
Watch Cory Doctorow outline how to de-enshittify technology and more in his keynote at FediForum June 2025.
PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyFtbBHRUCs YouTube:
#FediForum /cc
We fell behind posting what happened on FediForum Day 1 today. The product announcements and demos were followed by 17 attendee-run unconference sessions, then a though-provoking keynote by Cory Doctorow, and unconference closing.
For more details, see detailed coverage by https://wedistribute.org/2025/06/fediforum-june-2025/
6/5/2025, 1 engagement
Congratulations to our friends at A New Social who launched their new Bounce tool today at #FediForum, and got a nice writeup on Techcrunch!
We are in the middle of the #FediForum speed demo track.
A New Social just announced Bounce, the first-ever migration tool of accounts between #AtProto and #ActivityPub. You can keep your followers across networks!
About 12 hours until the start of FediForum June 2025!
Join us for three half-days of sessions on all aspects of the Open Social Web, better forms of social media, open social protocols and more!
While mostly an unconference, we also have innovative software demos and amazing keynotes!
Registration is still open! And you can join right from your living room or office! https://fediforum.org
Do you wish people would talk more about some aspect of social media or the open social web that somehow doesn't get as much attention as it should?
That's one reason why FediForum is an unconference. You can come, announce the topic, and run a session on it! No need to convince a conference organizer that your topic has merit.
Join us Thursday to Saturday this week, online. Registration is still open: https://fediforum.org
6/3/2025, 2 engagements
If you are registered for FediForum Thu-Sat this week, you can also (optionally) join us for a "Meet & Greet", the day before at 10:00 pacific, to check your equipment, get a tour of the online venue, or say Hi!
Here's the schedule: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/
Invite e-mails coming soon.
You asked, we listened. FediForum June 5-7 will have keynotes from amazing people:
Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-author of the ActivityPub standard and long-term innovator on the federated social web,
Ian Forrester, who helped with bringing Mastodon to the BBC and advocates for a public service internet, and
Cory Doctorow, long-term digital rights activist, journalist and sci-fi author. (Read some of his novels to see what happens if we don't get this right!)
Join us? https://fediforum.org
5/20/2025, 1 engagement
FediForum advisory board member and Fediverse enthusiast
is going to present about the Fediverse in just a few minutes at the Digital Culture event Cryptorave in Brazil: first presentation, then install fest!
Live-stream: https://youtube.com/live/oUVjLlj5-u0?feature=share (in Brazilian Portuguese)
5/16/2025, 1 engagement
Are you finding it hard to keep track with all the things that are happening on the Open Social Web, or you would like to get involved, but don't quite know where to start?
At the next FediForum, June 5-7, we are partnering with Laurens Hof from the Fediverse Report to help you get oriented in a session on the first day...
More info and registration: https://fediforum.org
5/14/2025, 1 engagement
There are some Fediverse events coming up in Germany in May and in October. They have been added to https://fediforum.org/events
Do you know of other Open Social Web events, anywhere on the planet? We'd be happy to add them to our list. Just reach out.
4/25/2025, 1 engagement
- FediForum April 1-2 is canceled, to be rescheduled at a future date.
In this environment, it is hard for me to see how a typical FediForum event could be successful tomorrow or the day after, we all need a time out. So I'm pulling the plug right now.
Registration is disabled as of now. Everybody who has a ticket can ask for a full refund. If you don't, we will credit the purchase price for a future FediForum. Use the e-mail on our contact page https://fediforum.org/contact/
4/1/2025, 1 engagement
Jon Pincus (@jdp23.neuromatch.social) is coming to #FediForum with a long list of topics:
Liberatory technology that doesn’t reproduce oppression and harms of today’s big tech social networks; mutual aid and organizing; moderation, including countering propaganda and disinformation; consent-based social networking; “free fediverses”, opposing surveillance capitalism; synergies with the atmosphere
Join us Tue and Wed, April 1-2, online? Info and registration: https://fediforum.org
Gregory Scallan (
) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about:
Making the fediverse useful for newbies
Join us, Tuesday and Wednesday, online? Registration is still open: https://fediforum.org
We've scheduled #FediForum so that people from anywhere between central Europe to the American West Coast can participate. We start at 8am local time at the West Coast, and end at 22:00 central European time. It makes for great, multi-national conversations.
And there are usually some brave people that join in the middle of their night, like from Japan, Korea, or New Zealand. One of these days we will schedule something more appropriate for you folks! The Open Social Web is truly international!
Timnit Gebru (
) is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about:
Accessibility on the fediverse, genocide prevention in multiple languages, using the fediverse for activism.
Excellent topics! Join us, April 1-2, online. More info: https://fediforum.org
3/25/2025, 3 engagements
The "Proposed Topics" page for the next FediForum is up.
When people register for FediForum, we ask them what topics they want to discuss. Not everybody fills out the form, and not everybody lets us publish what they said. But some do!
Check it out at http://fediforum.org/2025-04/
Anything sound interesting? Then please join them and us April 1 and 2.
Any glaring omissions? Then propose the missing topics when you register yourself! You don't need to be an expert. https://fediforum.org
2/25/2025, 1 engagement
If you care about open social protocols, leaving X/Twitter and other big platforms, are excited by the opportunities of decentralized social media, want to meet like-minded peers on topics from technology to moderation, funding to community, join us online April 1-2!
More: https://fediforum.org
2/20/2025, 1 engagement
Our friends at Flipboard are organizing a "Fediverse House" at SXSW in Austin, TX, March 9 and 10.
They are putting together a great program with people such as
, @molly0xfff,
,
, @pcottle and @pfrazee.com !
If you are at SXSW, check it out!
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/
#fediverse #sxsw #activitypub #atproto #socialweb
Mark Zuckerberg announces Meta is getting rid of fact checkers and acknowledges more harmful content will appear on Meta's platforms now.
What a great day to announce the next FediForum, the leading event to move the open Social Web forward.
Join us April 1-2? https://fediforum.org
1/7/2025, 2 engagements
The new Social Web Foundation is launching today. https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/09/24/launch/
held early community feedback sessions at FediForum e.g. here: https://fediforum.org/2024-03/session/3-a/ and it's good for the #fediverse and the #socialweb that the organization is now live!
The demo videos from #FediForum September 2024 are now on-line.
Fourteen demos of cool #Fediverse software, as shown off by the developers themselves! Innovation is alive and kicking in the Fediverse!
Given this is the Fediverse, get them from PeerTube here: https://spectra.video/w/p/q1BXeNF5PWFipFy5f44v9h
(They are on YouTube, too, but we will post the link to there later.)
Missed day 1 of #FediForum ?
Here is a summary of what you missed: https://fediforum.org/2024-09/
But you can still join us for day 2 and 3!
Sign up at: https://fediforum.org
is coming to FediForum and wants to discuss:
- Supporting creators on the fediverse; generative ai and the social web
Join us? Registration is still open. We start promptly at 8:00am pacific -- in 16 hours!
9/11/2024, 1 engagement
is coming to FediForum and wants to tell you about:
Learn how podcasting 2.0 apps can track your listening time and share it to the fediverse.
Join us? Registration is still open! https://fediforum.org
9/11/2024, 1 engagement
WeDistribute is going to provide live coverage of #FediForum !
https://wedistribute.org/2024/09/fediforum-september-2024/
Registration is still open: https://fediforum.org
is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about:
- collaboration and coordination with atproto and other protocols
- interoperable identity systems
- moderation tooling
- data portability
This will make for an interesting and important session! Or more likely, more than one!
Join us? https://fediforum.org
#bluesky #atproto #activitypub #interoperability #fediforum #fediverse
Richard MacManus
is coming to #FediForum next week and wants to talk about:
Fediverse development
Join us to discuss this and many other subjects related to the open social web and the Fediverse? https://fediforum.org
We still have a few demo slots.
What's a cool Fediverse application or platform that we should invite to demo at #FediForum ?
FediForum is an on-line unconference.
Never been to an unconference? You are in for a treat! No boring panels. No speakers who drone on and on. No wishing for the coffee break to come sooner.
8/15/2024, 1 engagement
Four weeks until FediForum starts September 12!
We'll open at 8am in the morning pacific time. That is 11am east coast time, 16:00 in the UK and 17:00 in central Europe, and we will close each day by 1pm/4pm/21:00/22:00.
That half-day schedule has worked out well to bring the #Fediverse community together across the Americas and Europe. We've had a bit of participation from Africa, too. As well as some brave souls from Asia-Pacific.
But this time, we do 3 half-days!
is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about:
Journalism and media Advertising Identity Simplifying inbox Moderation tools
That's an entire conference right there! :-)
Join us September 12-14, on-line? https://fediforum.org
8/14/2024, 1 engagement