Moving the Open Social Web forward. Join us at our next unconference, online?
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Last Notes npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Evan Prodromou, editor of the ActivityPub standard, will give a talk at FediForum on Tuesday, April 28, titled: "How To Bullshit Your Way Through a Conversation about ActivityPub" Have you ever wondered how #ActivityPub actually works? Come join us to find out, online! https://fediforum.org /cc @nprofile…hl8d npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum @nprofile…mfuv check the talk summary: https://www.sfscon.it/talks/build-your-own-timeline-algorithm/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Davide now with Mozilla.ai is talking about custom timeline algorithms. #sfscon #fediverse https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/509/270/788/712/863/original/3d2f8d262fc259df.jpeg npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Michael and Saskia from Newsmast explain how building focused social applications for particular communities and use cases can meet the moment of the global information emergency many are all facing. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/509/044/088/654/849/original/1854ec194c9835f8.jpeg npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Fediverse platforms don't have to be monolithic. Here's @nprofile…cn3a showing off the new plugin architecture for Castopod in a #FediForum demo. https://spectra.video/w/awbTuePpDCvHPxbVzkgykt npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum "Bouncing from ActivityPub to ATProto". Did you know you could pack up your Mastodon account and move to Bluesky, reconnecting with your followers? And vice versa? Here are the demos from #FediForum to show how to: https://spectra.video/w/nUaLGUjX3NUMjdmhwsBS91 (one way) https://spectra.video/w/pMRUbYU5Kas7QDP1JLR8qX (the other way) npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum "The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now." Amazing keynote from @nprofile…ytt9 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. https://spectra.video/w/msfQzqA8hacr8MbyreXWQC npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum FediForum starts in 48 hours! Join us and many of the people who move the Open Social Web and the Fediverse forward for two days of discussions, teaching and learning, software demos, a keynote, and making friends with like-minded people in an unconference format , online! https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Volker Grassmuck (@nprofile…g8lq https://vgrass.de/) asks: "How can ActivityPub and AtProto join hands so both can fight the Romans rather than each other?" Now here's a question! That makes a great subject for a FediForum session. We are non-partisan with respect to protocols, and want the entire open social web to succeed. And as it is an unconference, the discussion can branch out over several sessions if needed if an action plan were to emerge! #AtProto #ActivityPub npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Have you checked out the loooong list of topics people are bringing to discuss at #FediForum next week? It spans the entire open social web, and more are tricking in as people are registering. https://fediforum.org/2025-10/ Your topic is not among them? Come and bring it! FediForum is an unconference! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Jonathan Bellack (@bellack.com) is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about: Governance, identity, interoperability, safety Join us next week, Tuesday and Wednesday, online, for two half-days discussing these and many other open social web subjects! https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Ivan Minutillo @nprofile…tvyy is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about: 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum How did the #Fediverse become what it is today? Have you ever wondered? @nprofile…vj86 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/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Does social media need to look like a endless long feed, and all we do is doom scroll it? Unlike the closed platforms, the open social web lets people innovate, and here is an interesting example: Surf from Flipboard is rethinking the entire experience. Watch the demo! https://spectra.video/w/aKX9yCZuSS26Q8L4kQno4A npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Reminder: Registration for FediForum October 8-9, 2025, is now open. Meet, discuss, learn, teach, and make friends with other open social web, open protocols, new forms of social media enthusiasts, in 2 half-days, online, across many time zones. More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Did you know you can buy and sell music on the Fediverse? We didn't either -- until we saw this demo of Emissary at the last FediForum. Check it out! https://spectra.video/w/n5pUBMiyaa877whJWZcLpS npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Stuff for thought: what would it take to actually grow the Fediverse to a billion users? (While keeping and even improving on its good parts, not at the cost of enshittifying etc.) Can it be done? What are the obstacles? How do we overcome them? #FediForumFriday npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Registration for FediForum Fall 2025, October 7-8, 2025, online, is now open. Join us and other Open Social Web enthusiasts for two half-days of discussing, teaching, learning and taking next steps to build a better future for us and our children of how we interact online. https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Sneak announcement: the next FediForum will be on: October 7 and 8, 2025. Leave your info to be notified when registration opens: https://apps.fediforum.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/s/ci4R7TZnNEzDiXHDyFPQcM2G npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum On this #FediForumFriday, note that #FediForum is not the only event for the Fediverse and the Open Social Web. We try to track them at https://fediforum.org/events Today, for example, is the first day of FediCon, an in-person meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Good luck, #FediCon! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Today's the day! If you want to give a talk, or do a demo, or otherwise help out with our Fediverse track at SFSCON in Bolzano in beautiful South Tyrol, Northern Italy, in November, please fill out the form today. More info and link to form: https://fediforum.org/news/2025-07-09-fediforum-partners-with-sfscon-november-2025-bolzano/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Two more days to submit a proposed talk or other ideas for our Fediverse track at SFSCON, November 7-8, 2025 in Bolzano, Italy. https://fediforum.org/news/2025-07-09-fediforum-partners-with-sfscon-november-2025-bolzano/ #FediForum #FediForumFriday #SFSCon npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Do you have something interesting to say or present about the #Fediverse or the open social web, and are you looking for an opportunity to visit beautiful South Tyrol in the Italian Alps? Consider joining us https://fediforum.org/news/2025-07-09-fediforum-partners-with-sfscon-november-2025-bolzano/ We are still open to presentations and more. #FediForumFriday. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Can #enshittification be stopped and reversed? @nprofile…qz4x lays out how to in his recent #FediForum keynote. The key ingredient: the political will to require account portability. Watch: https://spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyFtbBHRUCs npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum It's #FediForumFriday! What's the best thing that happened to you on the Open Social Web all week? npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum What if, as we are building out the open social web, we prioritized increasing the joy people can feel when interacting with other people online? Like Christine proposed in her keynote! https://spectra.video/w/aQgZJDLam35wUcBd23yU2t?start=0s #FediForumFriday npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Discussions are ongoing about a possible #FediForumEurope . The idea would be to bring the European open social web community together, across countries, across protocols, from the private sector to the public sector and everything in between etc. Details still being figured out. If that is of interest to you, reach out! #FediForumFriday npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum The notes for 50+ unconference sessions from FediForum June 2025 are now on-line, covering a wide spectrum of open social web topics from technology to culture and more. If you are interested in leading-edge thinking on the open social web, there is so much insight there! https://fediforum.org/2025-06/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum The recordings of the speed demos from FediForum June 2025 are now online. They have been added to the agenda on our website: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/ , our PeerTube channel https://spectra.video/@fediforum and your YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@fediforum Some amazing innovations there, check it out! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Watch Elena Rossini announce her Fediverse movie in its world premiere at FediForum June 2025. PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/7Pnt9zovVRYUUy8uvrU5Ka YouTube: https://youtu.be/p9c2f63pIag #FediForum /cc @nprofile…74c4 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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: https://youtu.be/7_Gs1t0qe78 #FediForum /cc @nprofile…qz4x npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum The recordings of the keynotes, and the movie premiere, from FediForum June 2025 are now online. You can find them from https://fediforum.org/, our PeerTube https://spectra.video/@fediforum and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlI78hhgYh_oSg8Wws2m66YuRObWa7lJf channels. #FediForum #FediForumFriday npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Did you join us at this most recent #FediForum? Connect with the people you met this FediForum by using #FediForumAttendee in a post sharing your experience. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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! https://anew.social/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum FediForum starts in 30 minutes! After a brief intro, we'll have the first FediForum keynote ever, followed by 6 speed demos of innovative Open Social Web software, including something never seen before. Two unconference sessions follow, including an intro to the Open Social Web for people who are new to the space. The day concludes with another keynote, community announcements and unconference closing. Registration for this online event is still open: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum * Interoperability by Big Tech * Adoption by small businesses * Funding then Open Social Web * Broaden and advance the Fediverse * Local journalism * Creating a community in West Africa. Curation, and trust & safety * Self-curation * Knowledge creation and management * Content moderation * Online safety Public good: * Pathways to a better web for a better world (wow!) * Adoption, policies for public infrastructure in Europe And that's just what they put into the form! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Here are the topics that people registering have said they want to discuss this FediForum. The very technical: * Digital identity * Better APIs * AI-assisted communications and coordination * Surveillance-avoidance, better privacy * evolving ActivityPub and ATProto, standards * Projects beyond microblogging * Semantic web, richer data types Promotion, advocacy, growing the Open Social Web * Greater interoperability * In-person meetups * Moving civil and civic society away from Big Tech npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum We asked people signing up for #FediForum why they are coming. The biggest reason, by far: to connect with other, like-minded people. Second: learning about the Open Social Web. Followed by demoing software, telling others about their projects, and running sessions. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum @nprofile…74c4 The honor of hosting the premiere of your #Fediverse video is all ours! We can't wait to see it!!! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Meet and Greet in 30 min, in case you want to say Hi and check your equipment for #FediForum tomorrow. Registrations are still trickling in! https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 24h until #FediForum starts. If you are registered, you should have received an e-mail invite to our on-line venue. We are very much looking forward to seeing you tomorrow! If you like, hang out with us, say Hi and get a tour of the venue in the optional Meet & Greet in about 2 hours. Use the same invite link. Not registered yet? Registration is still open! https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum FediForum is not just for technical people. While there is a lot of technical content, FediForum also attracts many discussions that have nothing or little to do with technology. Just look at the list of keywords here for sessions that happened at previous FediForums. https://fediforum.org/topics/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 48 hours left before FediForum starts. Join the community for three (!) half-days of discussions, presentations, demos, creating new projects and more on all aspects of better social communications, social media and the open social web. Now with keynotes! Registration: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum So many great demos, so little time. We'll do demos Thursday morning (after the 1st keynote) and first thing Saturday morning. And a special surprise after the Friday keynote. So much great work in the Open Social Web, it's becoming impossible to show it all. Join us? https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum What is the future of social media? Is there a future? Could it be better than it is today? Anybody working on this? Come join us next week at FediForum and find out! Or even better: collaborate with your peers to make a better future! More info and registration: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Again we have a full roster of software speed demos at FediForum next week, and even a waiting list! Several "first-evers" on the Open Social Web have been shown at past FediForums, and it looks like there will be several more next week! Check past recordings and register: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum What kinds of subjects are being discussed at FediForum? Wonder no more: we (tried to) categorize sessions from past FediForum, and here is the full list: https://fediforum.org/topics/ Join us next week and make the list even longer! :-) Lots to discuss on the open social web! https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Added: expected session topics for FediForum June 5-7. What a long list! Check it out: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/ Something important not on the list? Come to FediForum, and announce a session on that subject during agenda making in the morning! Unconferences for the win! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum In one hour: FediForum office hours. If you have never been to a FediForum, or another online unconference, and you aren't sure what to expect or whether it's for you, come by today and ask whatever questions you might have! To get an invite link for the office hours: https://apps.fediforum.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/s/kaDkD38YxL4cQgNmYWPBeYo9 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Uncertain whether #FediForum is for you? Or how to get prepared? Or how to run a session? Come to our office hours Tuesday, May 27, 10:00am pacific (19:00 central Europe) to ask whatever question might have. Sign-up: https://apps.fediforum.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/s/kaDkD38YxL4cQgNmYWPBeYo9 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum FediForum next week is going to be great! Join us for three half-days (or maybe just one or two half-days) of keynotes, demos, and lots of sessions on all aspects of the #Fediverse, the open social web, and what it all means from technology to societal impact. Registration: https://fediforum.org/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Unsure whether #FediForum is for you? Or how to get prepared? Or how to run a session? Come to our office hours Tuesday, May 27, 10:00am pacific (19:00 central Europe) to ask whatever question might have. Sign-up: https://apps.fediforum.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/s/kaDkD38YxL4cQgNmYWPBeYo9 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Are you coming to #FediForum June 5-7? Join us and your fellow open social web enthusiasts for three (!) half-days of discussions, presentations, software demos, keynotes and plotting next steps. Registration is open: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum FediForum advisory board member and Fediverse enthusiast @nprofile…cxgw 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) npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Registration is open for FediForum June 5-7, 2025. Join us and your peers for three half-days of moving the Open Social Web forward, online. More info and registration: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Mark your calendars: the next FediForum will take place Thu-Sat, June 5-7, 2025, online. While we aren't quite ready yet to provide details, we thought you should know about the dates as soon as possible. We are planning to update the format and organizing team based on your feedback, but the unconference and demos that you all love will remain at the core of the event. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum We are proud to announce the first-ever FediForum advisory board. We are very glad to have such an incredible group of committed and experienced Open Social Web pioneers and advocates come together to advise FediForum and help move the Open Social Web forward. Check out https://fediforum.org/people npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum The townhall notes have been augmented with what was discussed in the second townhall. https://fediforum.org/2025-04/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Draft notes from the April 1 townhall: https://fediforum.org/2025-04/ Thanks everybody who reached out since, and the many extremely good one-on-one and small group conversations with ideas for the next iteration of FediForum. Keep them coming! Planned next steps: another townhall likely next week, and a rescheduled & adapted FediForum in May. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 4. As next steps forward, we will be organizing a set of roundtables to listen to the FediForum community, to hear how we can do better -- with a reconstituted organizing team. I clearly am not able to do this myself. We want to do this with the community, and with all parts of the community, including trans folks, black people, and the many other marginalized groups that are under attack from so many directions these days. We want to do what we can to stand with you. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 2. 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/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Rebecca Sieber (@nprofile…wnhu) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about: Legal and ethical topics, trust & safety, developing policy demands, onboarding in the artist/music scene Join us this Tuesday and Wednesday, April 1-2, online? Info and registration: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Michael Sprague (https://sez.us/user/mespr) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about: Standards, healthy collaboration and the business models that promote it. identity, provenance and trust. Join us Tuesday and Wednesday this coming week, online? https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Jaz-Michael King (@nprofile…qkcu) from #IFTAS is again coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about: Trust & safety on the open social web Lots of work still to be done there! Join us to figure out next steps and move the state of the art forward? https://fediforum.org/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Gregory Scallan (@nprofile…h3ne) 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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! npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Bruce Lawson (@nprofile…ru80) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about: Making fediverse more accessible to legacy social media users He will also show off how the #Vivaldi web browser integrates with Mastodon! Join us for demos and discussion, Apr 1-2? https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Timnit Gebru (@nprofile…e5sk) 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Gilles Dutilh (@nprofile…zkr2) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about: How to (not) persuade friends and family to cross the rubicon. Matching people (like me) with projects to contribute to. Scientific communication and publishing. Join us Apr 1-2? https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Julian Fietkau (@nprofile…hj2e) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about: Academic exchange and collaboration on the fediverse – what’s already working and what’s still missing? Join us for this discussion and many others on April 1-2, online? More info: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum We're going to have some rather interesting social web demos next week. One of the fun parts of organizing FediForum is that we get to see or hear about some cool tech before anybody else, because people want to use FediForum to show it off publicly for the first time. And if you attend FediForum, you will part of the group that sees it first publicly. How is that as an incentive to come to #FediForum? Registration is still open: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Daniel Supernault (@nprofile…exed) is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about: Pixelfed and loops Want to learn more about this? Join us April 1-2! More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Wes Biggs from Project Liberty is coming to FediForum and wants to talk about: Interoperability, decentralization If you care about multi-protocol interoperability, here's another reason to come to FediForum April 1-2. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Second invite e-mail for previous FediForum attendees sent. April 1-2 is only three weeks away. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Ujun Jeong ([email protected] ) is coming to #FediForum and wants to talk about his project: Fediversesharing: a novel dataset on cross-platform interaction dynamics between 20,000+ #threads users and 20,000+ #mastodon users over a ten-month period. Join us April 1-2? https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Are there any User Experience / User Interface people who read this? ... and have opinions on how the Fediverse could work better for normal people if a bit more of their expertise were applied? If so, consider coming to FediForum April 1-2 to hang out with others who care about the Fediverse, including the developers of many Fediverse platforms. Perhaps a session could come together with ideas how to make #UX #UI better across the Fediverse? More info & registration: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum We've all been trained that at conferences, the "experts" proclaim things from the stage, and the "attendees" politely listen. At unconferences such as FediForum, it's different. Anybody can run a session. You don't need to be an expert. You can run a session like "I don't understand how xyz works. Maybe I'm not the only one. Let's figure it out together?" and that's usually what happens. The experts in the room usually learn things, too. Sounds like fun? Join us: https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Who are the people who "move the Open Social Web forward" as we put it? If you are wondering, it clearly includes you! It's everybody who cares about open social media systems, rather than walled gardens. About choice rather than one-size-fits-all. About participatory governance, rather than unilateral decisions by billionaires. About innovation and not just value extraction. And much more. Join us April 1 and 2 to move the open social web forward? https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum The countdown to the next FediForum is live. 40 days from now, on April 1-2, the Open Social Web community is again meeting online for two half-days, scheduled to work for people between the central European and American west coast time zones. More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum 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 @nprofile…qz4x, @nprofile…eznj, @nprofile…5mw3, @nprofile…6zhx, @nprofile…lp4l and @nprofile…czs7 ! If you are at SXSW, check it out! https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/ #fediverse #sxsw #activitypub #atproto #socialweb npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Reaching out to a bunch of folks today who have started interesting decentralized social media or open social web projects since the last FediForum. Maybe they want to come and run a session April 1 or 2. What projects do you think we should reach out to? npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum Hey @nprofile…p8x9, the list of protocols for an open social web is of course much longer than AP and AT. Just this is the title page and we don't want to lose people. However, we have added it to the much longer list here https://fediforum.org/about/ npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum If you have come to FediForum in the past, you should have received e-mail about our next online unconference April 1 and 2. Join us again? https://fediforum.org npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum @nprofile…smjs The tagline is long already, and adds one more word! Also, a lot of people seem to associate the term "open web" with something that is public and can be accessed/read/used without authentication. That doesn't really work for social-related functionality. We did think of "interoperable social web" but that's also an extra word, and a scary long one at that. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum @nprofile…dkyd "The social cyberspace" is not really a phrase that we've come across before, while "Social web" is a term that's been established for more than a decade. npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum @nprofile…eyff Have any suggestion for how to shorten it? npub1h922hu6rjv4tc0pyks3wp7z0whfdd09da6stcnyv7dn80p83e5qqasjhr8 FediForum @nprofile…fflq For us, the important thing is the network -- users can interact with each other in different places / websites / platforms -- and all technologies that help with that have always been welcome and in-scope for FediForum. As you probably know, we've had attendees advocating not just for ActivityPub, but also at least SSB, Nostr and AtProto.