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?
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 cause of advancing better forms of social media in Europe.
Kudos to many to make this happen, but particularly to @michael and @bjoernsta who spearheaded it.
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 https://fediforum.org/events
And let us know if there are issues, because it's all new and the behaviors for various calendars and browsers on various operating systems are apparently all different.
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.
https://spectra.video/w/5GXnaWQ4BByS55J8hM7EpB
/cc @Profpatsch
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 @Bonfire
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.
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 @fediforum@tags.pub 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 @evanprodromou
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