FediForum
@fediforum.org
The online unconference for the people who move the Open Social Web forward.
Firs WebSocialBR – Brazilian Fediverse Forum event in Brasil coming up on December 3rd. We are glad to support the event.
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websocial.org.br
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Firs WebSocialBR – Brazilian Fediverse Forum event in Brasil coming up on December 3rd. We are glad to support the event.
The Fediverse track at #SFSCon will start in 20 minutes in room Seminar 4. Go down the stairs and to the left, in the corner, left of the coffee station.
Shttps://www.sfscon.it/tracks...
Shttps://www.sfscon.it/tracks...
November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Fediverse track at #SFSCon will start in 20 minutes in room Seminar 4. Go down the stairs and to the left, in the corner, left of the coffee station.
Shttps://www.sfscon.it/tracks...
Shttps://www.sfscon.it/tracks...
The #Fediverse track at #SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy, that we've organized is starting in 24 hours.
We have a Signal back channel for attendees. DM for an invite if you are attending.
www.sfscon.it/tracks...
We have a Signal back channel for attendees. DM for an invite if you are attending.
www.sfscon.it/tracks...
November 6, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The #Fediverse track at #SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy, that we've organized is starting in 24 hours.
We have a Signal back channel for attendees. DM for an invite if you are attending.
www.sfscon.it/tracks...
We have a Signal back channel for attendees. DM for an invite if you are attending.
www.sfscon.it/tracks...
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!
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!
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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!
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!
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?
See you in Bolzano?
FediForum
FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward
fediforum.org
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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?
See you in Bolzano?
The Open Social Web is for far more than just social media.
In this #FediForum demo, @riley.social 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.
In this #FediForum demo, @riley.social 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.
FediForum Demo: The World's First Federated App Store
Speed demo by Riley Testut, AltStore CEO (@rileytestut@mastodon.social, @rileytestut@threads.net, @riley.social) at FediForum October 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-10
spectra.video
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Open Social Web is for far more than just social media.
In this #FediForum demo, @riley.social 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.
In this #FediForum demo, @riley.social 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.
FASPs are a new protocol by which Fediverse servers can delegate some of their functionality to other services. Sounds very geeky?
Here's James Smith showing what this looks like in practice, in his #FediForum demo of search for 3D model sharing app Manyfold.
Here's James Smith showing what this looks like in practice, in his #FediForum demo of search for 3D model sharing app Manyfold.
FediForum Demo: Cross-instance search in Manyfold using Fediscovery & FASPs
Speed demo by James Smith (@floppy@mastodon.me.uk) at FediForum October 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-10
spectra.video
October 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
FASPs are a new protocol by which Fediverse servers can delegate some of their functionality to other services. Sounds very geeky?
Here's James Smith showing what this looks like in practice, in his #FediForum demo of search for 3D model sharing app Manyfold.
Here's James Smith showing what this looks like in practice, in his #FediForum demo of search for 3D model sharing app Manyfold.
To support your work, you can now raise money natively on the Fediverse.
@reiver.bsky.social is showing how in this demo of CrowdBucks at #FediForum.
@reiver.bsky.social is showing how in this demo of CrowdBucks at #FediForum.
FediForum Demo: CrowdBucks
Speed demo by Charles Iliya Krempeaux (@reiver@mastodon.social) at FediForum October 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-10
spectra.video
October 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
To support your work, you can now raise money natively on the Fediverse.
@reiver.bsky.social is showing how in this demo of CrowdBucks at #FediForum.
@reiver.bsky.social is showing how in this demo of CrowdBucks at #FediForum.
October 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Fediverse platforms don't have to be monolithic.
Here's Benjamin Bellamy showing off the new plugin architecture for Castopod in a #FediForum demo.
Here's Benjamin Bellamy showing off the new plugin architecture for Castopod in a #FediForum demo.
FediForum Demo: Castopod v2.0 has Plugins!
Speed demo by Benjamin Bellamy (@benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social) at FediForum October 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-10
spectra.video
October 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Fediverse platforms don't have to be monolithic.
Here's Benjamin Bellamy showing off the new plugin architecture for Castopod in a #FediForum demo.
Here's Benjamin Bellamy 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 @jesseplusplus.bsky.social's demo at #FediForum showing off Frequency Social, a federated, privacy-first social networking app.
Here's @jesseplusplus.bsky.social's demo at #FediForum showing off Frequency Social, a federated, privacy-first social networking app.
FediForum Demo: Frequency Social
Speed demo by Jesse Karmani, founder (@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social, @frequency@frequency.app, @jesseplusplus.bsky.social) at FediForum October 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-10
spectra.video
October 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Social media does not have to be on a public town square, or manipulate you.
Here's @jesseplusplus.bsky.social's demo at #FediForum showing off Frequency Social, a federated, privacy-first social networking app.
Here's @jesseplusplus.bsky.social's demo at #FediForum showing off Frequency Social, a federated, privacy-first social networking app.
"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:
spectra.video/w/nUaL... (one way)
spectra.video/w/pMRU... (the other way)
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:
spectra.video/w/nUaL... (one way)
spectra.video/w/pMRU... (the other way)
FediForum Demo: Bounce: A Migration Tool for the Open Social Web
Speed demo by Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq@mastodon.social, @quillmatiq.com) and Ryan Barrett (@snarfed.org@snarfed.org, @snarfed.org) at FediForum June 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-06
spectra.video
October 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"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:
spectra.video/w/nUaL... (one way)
spectra.video/w/pMRU... (the other way)
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:
spectra.video/w/nUaL... (one way)
spectra.video/w/pMRU... (the other way)
"The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now."
Amazing keynote from @werd.io 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 right problems.
Amazing keynote from @werd.io 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 right problems.
FediForum Keynote: Ben Werdmuller
Keynote by Ben Werdmuller (@ben@werd.social, @werd.io, https://werd.io) at FediForum October 2025. More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-10
spectra.video
October 15, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now."
Amazing keynote from @werd.io 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 right problems.
Amazing keynote from @werd.io 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 right problems.
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.
Checkout our website https://fediforum.org, which also has links to our PeerTube and YouTube channels.
FediForum
FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward
fediforum.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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.
Checkout our website https://fediforum.org, which also has links to our PeerTube and YouTube channels.
Reposted by FediForum
Here’s my writeup of #fediforum (the openings at least). Loved the message of @ben’s keynote — everything big starts small — and I was impressed by the fedi products showcased: @altstore ( @rileytestut), Bounce ( @quillmatiq, @snarfed.org), Frequency ( @jesseplusplus), CrowdBucks ( @reiver) & […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Here’s my writeup of #fediforum (the openings at least). Loved the message of @ben’s keynote — everything big starts small — and I was impressed by the fedi products showcased: @altstore ( @rileytestut), Bounce ( @quillmatiq, @snarfed.org), Frequency ( @jesseplusplus), CrowdBucks ( @reiver) & […]
Very nice writeup by @ricmac@mastodon.social for The New Stack on what happened at #FediForum this week, and why the Open Social Web (should) matter to #developers.
Everything Big Starts Small: Building Open Social Web Apps
There's a small but growing app movement on the open social web. At the latest FediForum virtual event, developers showed their wares.
thenewstack.io
October 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Very nice writeup by @ricmac@mastodon.social for The New Stack on what happened at #FediForum this week, and why the Open Social Web (should) matter to #developers.
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.
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Next: meet in-person in South Tyrol in Northern Italy in about a month at sfscon.it.
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October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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.
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Next: meet in-person in South Tyrol in Northern Italy in about a month at sfscon.it.
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Now moving to unconference sessions. Yesterday we had 16 of them, all brought and run by FediForum attendees, covering a wide variety of technical and non-technical subjects on the open social web.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Now moving to unconference sessions. Yesterday we had 16 of them, all brought and run by FediForum attendees, covering a wide variety of technical and non-technical subjects on the open social web.
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... and FediForum Day 2 is starting just about now.
First: software demos! Including some very cool ones that you likely have not seen before -- because they haven't been shown anywhere else before!
You can still join us:
First: software demos! Including some very cool ones that you likely have not seen before -- because they haven't been shown anywhere else before!
You can still join us:
FediForum
FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward
fediforum.org
October 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
... and FediForum Day 2 is starting just about now.
First: software demos! Including some very cool ones that you likely have not seen before -- because they haven't been shown anywhere else before!
You can still join us:
First: software demos! Including some very cool ones that you likely have not seen before -- because they haven't been shown anywhere else before!
You can still join us:
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:
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:
FediForum
FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward
fediforum.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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:
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:
FediForum Day 1 News -- attendees already know, but here is it for the general public (middle of the page): fediforum.org/2025-10/
Some of this news is going to be demo'd at #FediForum, today, Day 2. You can still join us and see the demos and participate in discussions!
https://fediforum.org
Some of this news is going to be demo'd at #FediForum, today, Day 2. You can still join us and see the demos and participate in discussions!
https://fediforum.org
October 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
FediForum Day 1 News -- attendees already know, but here is it for the general public (middle of the page): fediforum.org/2025-10/
Some of this news is going to be demo'd at #FediForum, today, Day 2. You can still join us and see the demos and participate in discussions!
https://fediforum.org
Some of this news is going to be demo'd at #FediForum, today, Day 2. You can still join us and see the demos and participate in discussions!
https://fediforum.org
FediForum got a mention today in a piece on Mastodon Starter Packs in The Verge. Mastodon starter packs are coming, and were discussed at #FediForum today.
www.theverge.com/news/794988/...
www.theverge.com/news/794988/...
Mastodon snags Bluesky’s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out
Starter Packs, but for Mastodon.
www.theverge.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 PM
FediForum got a mention today in a piece on Mastodon Starter Packs in The Verge. Mastodon starter packs are coming, and were discussed at #FediForum today.
www.theverge.com/news/794988/...
www.theverge.com/news/794988/...
It's a wrap for FediForum Day 1. We had an amazing keynote, which we will publish to PeerTube and YouTube as soon as we can, and ~15 unconference sessions from the very technical to public policy, from the needs of communities to those of media and academia and more.
See you tomorrow for day 2!
See you tomorrow for day 2!
October 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
It's a wrap for FediForum Day 1. We had an amazing keynote, which we will publish to PeerTube and YouTube as soon as we can, and ~15 unconference sessions from the very technical to public policy, from the needs of communities to those of media and academia and more.
See you tomorrow for day 2!
See you tomorrow for day 2!
The first set of unconference sessions at #FediForum is about to start.
You can still join us, today and/or tomorrow, and help us and the community figure out the future of social media and the open social web.
You can still join us, today and/or tomorrow, and help us and the community figure out the future of social media and the open social web.
FediForum
FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward
fediforum.org
October 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The first set of unconference sessions at #FediForum is about to start.
You can still join us, today and/or tomorrow, and help us and the community figure out the future of social media and the open social web.
You can still join us, today and/or tomorrow, and help us and the community figure out the future of social media and the open social web.
Reposted by FediForum
@werd.io kicking off @fediforum.org with his keynote!
October 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
@werd.io kicking off @fediforum.org with his keynote!