How does ActivityPub really work? Listen to this presentation by #ActivityPub co-author @evanprodromou#activitypubgiven at the last FediForum: https://spectra.video/w/s8DKnnaPFw2b1JS8zD5VE8

Next #fediforum: October 6-7, 2026. Online. Join your peers building a better online future, in an unconference format where everybody can contribute, teach and learn. We can only do this together! More info and registration: https://fediforum.org

Bluesky added a new feature today: groups. We thought we might as well try it out. Join us there? https://bsky.app/chat/OnxBOvs

Honoring the winners of last weekend's first Open Social Awards, which were announced at the Public Spaces conference in Amsterdam Friday night. We now have a dedicated page for them on FediForum Connect: https://connect.fediforum.org/awards/open-social-2026/ Check them out!

And congratulations to the honorable mentions: * Bounce * Dandelion * Streamplace * Leaflet * Bonfire Network at today's Open Social Award.

Congratulations to: Blacksky Algorithms for winning an Excellence Award as part of the Open Social Awards today.

Congratulations to: Sill.social for winning an Excellence Award as part of the Open Social Awards today.

Congratulations congratulations congratulations to: ** Newsmast Foundation ** for winning the very first Open Social Award.

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 […]

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/

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/

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. Check it out at […]

Thanks for the shout-out by @team and earlier by @fediversereport : https://protocolsforpublishers.com/democracy-news-tech-and-the-future-of-canadian-journalism-3-event-reports/

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 […]

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 […]

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. https://spectra.video/w/2CvJ8qcvo3MSh8C4u94uSp /cc @sherif.eurosky.social

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. https://spectra.video/w/9PimpSkZXiCneBXrrEvrRx /cc @imanijoy

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 . https://spectra.video/w/s3CHd83Hypu1f45pfuqCPT /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 @j12t

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/116557244973170054 This was a fun demo to give on a tool for mastodon admins I've been working on for a while. We're now working to make it really world class and you can sign up to the wait list to learn more here: fediponics.com

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 @stefan

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. https://spectra.video/w/sGoZnr7HWetgX6JeHwyWef /cc @samir

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. https://spectra.video/w/hBLR8YT3NrX1yEdjezToRh /cc @mapache#fediverse#fediforum@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. https://spectra.video/w/kC6HSEFU2y8NKMvJ3SH16Y /cc @snarfed.org

End to end encryption is coming to the #Fediverse. At #FediForum last week, @benpate#fediverse#fediforumemo'd how it will look like in Bandwagon. https://spectra.video/w/oGzENb3eBqwZXQw2p5V4D6

Our @[email protected] demo is up! 🔥 We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website. Built on our modular […]

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. https://spectra.video/w/mtiiD5UBf4uQrs76PsWE8Q Follow her at @kimvsparrentak

Have you ever wondered how #ATProto actually works? This presentation by Daniel Holmgren from #FediForum should answer your questions in 30 minutes. https://spectra.video/w/mDnE8FbYh1PXiaCPxsniGQ /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. https://spectra.video/w/s8DKnnaPFw2b1JS8zD5VE8 /cc @evanprodromou

The recordings and session notes from FediForum April 2026 are now online. https://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 https://spectra.video/@fediforum (PeerTube) and https://youtube.com/@fediforum shortly. The session notes will […]

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 […]

#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: https://fediforum.org

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: 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!!

#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: https://fediforum.org

@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 (https://www.fedivariety.org/noaw-amsterdam) https://fediforum.org

My planned #fediforum session 3, which is a true unconference session in the sense that I am asking a question to which I do not have an answer. But I hope smart people will show up and we will constructively debate the problem and together progress our understanding. 1/3

My planned #fediforum session 2: FediForum Connect. You might have seen our beta at https://connect.fediforum.org, which is a curated product and services directory for the Open Social Web. We want feedback, and also answer questions on why and how, and how to get listed.

My planned #fediforum session 1: Intro to the Open Social Web. I don't have any slides or pre-defined content. Chances are you know the basics already, otherwise you would not be at FediForum :-) Instead, bring your questions. They can be technical, or on usability, or on social dynamics, on […]

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! https://fediforum.org

Gilles Dutilh (@DePemig) is coming to #fediforum mostly and is looking for input on our research for making the fediverse thrive. (https://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 minutillo (@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! https://fediforum.org

Jim DeLaHunt (@jdlh) 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 (@lars_li) 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? https://fediforum.org

Aaron Klemm (@aklemm) is thinking about running #fediforum sessions on: * Identity * Self-hosting https://fediforum.org/

Joan Pla (@joanpla) 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. https://fediforum.org

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.