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...

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...

We publish events on our website that are about the Open Social Web, from anywhere on the planet. Not just FediForum events. To make it easier for you to keep track of them, we now also publish them as iCalendar feed that you can subscribe to in your calendar app. 1/2

Flohmarkt is federated decentralized classified ad software using ActivityPub. They showed off how you can use other fedi platforms (e.g. Mastodon) to interact with small ads and talk to the seller via direct messages. Demo by Philip Patsch at the most recent #FediForum. 1/2

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. 1/2

A quick walk through Eurosky account creation and migration for existing accounts and an overview of future features. Demo by Sherif Elsayed-Ali at a recent #FediForum. spectra.video/w/2CvJ... /cc Sherif EA

Imani Joy, Head of Design at Mastodon, was demoing 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 at the recent #FediForum. spectra.video/w/9Pim... /cc Joy

tags.pub is a global hashtag server for the Fediverse. You can follow an account like @[email protected] and it will boost all the content tagged #fediforum from across the Fediverse. Evan Prodromou demo'd it recently at FediForum . spectra.video/w/s3CH...#fediforum1/2

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. spectra.video/w/3Nwk... /cc @j12t.org

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. spectra.video/w/t5jf... /cc @stefanhayden.bsky.social#FediForum,

Fedica for PeerTube is for creators who publish videos across social media platforms, or those who want to plan their social media calendar. Shown by Samir Al-Battran last week at #FediForum. spectra.video/w/sGoZ... /cc @samir.fedica.com.

The #Fediverse now has its own link-in-bio, with new project FediProfile. Share links, collect badges, and own your online presence – no corporation in the middle. Maho Pacheco demo'd it last week at #FediForum. spectra.video/w/hBLR... /cc @mapache@hachyderm.io, @maho.dev

Bounce lets you move your account from Mastodon to Bluesky and back. And now you can move it to other PDSs not run by Bluesky. Ryan Barrett demo'd how at last week's #FediForum. spectra.video/w/kC6H... /cc Ryan

End to end encryption is coming to the #Fediverse. At #FediForum last week, Ben Pate#Fediverse.#FediForumastodon.social demo'd how it will look like in Bandwagon.

Perspectives on what Europe should do about social media, from member of EU parliament Kim van Sparrentak, in a conversation with Johannes Ernst last week at #FediForum. spectra.video/w/mtii... Follow her at Kim van Sparrentak

Have you ever wondered how #ATProto actually works? This presentation by Daniel Holmgren from #FediForum should answer your questions in 30 minutes. spectra.video/w/mDnE... /cc @dholms.at

Have you ever wondered how #ActivityPub actually works? This presentation by Evan Prodromou from #FediForum should answer your questions in 30 minutes. spectra.video/w/s8DK... /cc Evan Prodromou

The recordings and session notes from FediForum April 2026 are now online. fediforum.org/2026-04/ In our own twist on the "+1 strategy", we are publishing the PeerTube playlist first, and YouTube later.

Missed this spring #FediForum https://fediforum.org? We will publish video recordings of the speed demos, of the fireside chat, and the protocol presentations on our video accounts at spectra.video/@fedif... (PeerTube) and youtube.com/@fediforum#FediForumshortly. 1/2

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.

#FediForum Day 3 starts in one hour! Today we will have another batch of speed demos, followed by unconference sessions 7 to 9. You can still join us, online, just for this day:

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.

#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:

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!!

#FediForum 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. Registration will remain open during the event:

ZZEPPOSS is coming to #FediForum to run sessions on: * Digital commons? fediverse as a public interest infrastructure * Outcomes of our unconference, last month about the fediverse in/for public institutions (www.fedivariety.org/...) https://fediforum.org

Another #FediForum attendee wants to learn more about: * Potential collaborations and funding * Hearing about other people’s and initiatives experiences * Fediverse for public institutions Starting tomorrow!

Gilles DePemig :TwinPines: is coming to #FediForum mostly and is looking for input on our research for making the fediverse thrive. (org.basel.social) FediForum is, among others, a great place for open social web researchers to meet. Tue to Thu this week. https://fediforum.org

ivan 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!

Jim DeLaHunt (@jdlh@mstdn.ca) is thinking about running a #FediForum session on globally-inclusive fediverse handles, and wants to learn more about fediverse activity in languages other than western european, japanese, and korean, and scripts other than latin, japanese, and korean.

Here's the list of speed demos for tomorrow. It's a packed schedule, so everybody only gets 5 minutes! But the people who demo are encouraged to run full unconference sessions later during #FediForum, so people who have questions or want to learn more can do that! You can still register!

Lars Lipinski (@[email protected]) is coming to #FediForum and wants to learn more about: * The human side of interoperability. * New projects and applications on the open social web. Join us tomorrow, and two (half) days after, online?

Aaron Klemm is thinking about running #FediForum sessions on: * Identity * Self-hosting

Joan Pla is coming to #FediForum and wants to learn more about: Public institutions and civic movements engaging with the social web. Starting tomorrow, online! Registration is still open.

Meet & Greet in advance of tomorrow's #FediForum will start in about an hour. If you are registered and feel like it, come by for a tour of the online venue, to check your equipment, ask any questions you might have, and say Hi! You should have received info how to join by e-mail.

Marci McCue is coming to FediForum to meet and connect with like-minded people and wants to learn about: Expanding the fediverse, new products and services for creators, general updates from builders across the open social web. There's still time to join:

People sometimes think one has to be a techie to come to FediForum. Absolutely not! All you need to do is care about better forms of interacting online than what the big commercial, centralized and unaccountable social platforms give us. Because the cause needs everybody. Not just geeks.

Check out some of the topics people will bring to FediForum this week, starting tomorrow! Anything interesting? Join us! Anything important missing? Call the session you want to see, all you need to do is be present when we make the agenda each day in the first morning.

Luis Quintanilla is thinking about running #FediForum sessions on: * Bringing an indieweb site onto the fediverse lqdev.me/notes/websi... * Mycelium - federated ai systems on at proto github.com/lqdev/myc...#FediForum and ...

I'll host an "Introduction to the Open Social Web" session on the first day of #FediForum (Tuesday). Several people said in their registration that they want to learn what it is all about, and that's for you! This will be mostly Q&A, so bring your questions! Curious too?

@abosio@fosstodon.org is coming to FediForum to learn what the open social web is all about, and meet and connect with like-minded people. That's a major reason we do an unconference! They are really good at connecting people around topics they are passionate about. Join us?

Melanie Bartos is thinking of running a #FediForum session on: Fediverse and (public) institutions: I’d like to run a session on how public institutions can adopt ActivityPub and the Fediverse in practice, based on the introduction of a Fediverse instance for Mastodon at the...

48 hours until #FediForum Spring 2026 starts! Tomorrow, Monday, we'll do a pre-event "meet and greet" so you can check out your equipment and get a tour of the online venue if you like. If you registered, you will get an invite e-mail in time. Registration is still open:

Jeffrey Campo @[email protected] is coming to #FediForum mostly to learn what the open social web is all about, and how the fediverse can build antifragility into social media. More details and registration:

techhub.social/@tech... is coming to #FediForum mostly to meet and connect with like-minded people, and wants to learn more about: The future of decentralization, how to increase appeal to users vs big tech platforms Starting on Tuesday, online. Registration is still open: https://fediforum.org

We were asked whether anybody is known to run a session on #FASP (Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider Specifications) at the #FediForum unconference next week. Anybody? Please let us know.

Philip Patsch Beady Belle Fanchannel will demo #Flohmarkt – federated decentral classified ad software using Activitypub. We will show you can use other fedi platforms (e.g. mastodon) to interact with small ads and talk to the seller via DMs. Next week at

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...

Sherif Elsayed-Ali Sherif EA from #Eurosky will demo Eurosky account creation and migration for existing accounts, and give an overview of future features in a speed demo next week at #FediForum. Sounds interesting? Join us, online! More info and registration: fediforum.org/2026-04/

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.