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2025-07-09
FediForum partners with Free Software conference SFSCON for November 7-8, 2025 in Bolzano, Italy
FediForum is organizing the Fediverse track, an Open Social Web exhibit, and more. You are invited!
Moving the
Open Social Web
Forward.
Join us for the Fediverse Track
at SFSCon in Bolzano, Italy
November 7-8th, 2025
Open protocols, not closed platforms. The Fediverse, Mastodon and ActivityPub. ATmosphere, Bluesky and AtProto. Human connections, not AI bots, nor fake news nor manipulative algorithms. New funding models. New forms of governance. Better trust and safety. Direct relationships to stakeholders and customers. Interoperability across social platforms everywhere, and so much more.
After a decade of stagnation, next-generation social media is breaking out of the closed silos and connecting the world into a global, open social web. It’s a wild world full of opportunity.
FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web.
SFSCon Fediverse Track program (November 2025)
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Learn what FediForum is all about
Check out what happened at our October 2025, June 2025, September 2024, March 2024, September 2023 and March 2023 events, watch our PeerTube channel or read session summaries organized by topic.
As FediForum is an unconference, the sessions agendas you see there were created democratically each morning, and then run by FediForum participants. (What’s an unconference and other FAQs.)
FediForum October 2025 Highlights
Keynote by Ben Werdmuller: The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now
AltStore Demo: The World’s First Federated App Store
More demo recordings and notes from the unconference sessions.
Previous Highlights
Keynote by Cory Doctorow: in June 2025:
The amazing Fediverse movie by Elena Rossini was first shown at FediForum June 2025:
Also check out our PeerTube channel @fediforum_demos@spectra.video (mirrored to this YouTube channel).
Press coverage
October 2025
- The New Stack: Everything Big Starts Small: Building Open Social Web Apps
- The Verge: Mastodon snags Bluesky’s starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out
Announcements made at FediForum:
- TechCrunch: Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse
- TechCrunch: Bounce introduces a tool to move your Mastodon account to Bluesky
- The Verge: AltStore’s alternative iPhone app store is coming to more countries
Previous
- TechCrunch: Introducing Bounce, a tool to move your following between Bluesky and Mastodon
- TechCrunch: Bonfire’s new software lets users build their own social communities, free from platform control
- The Verge: Here are three new apps building out the open social web
- WeDistribute: Our FediForum June 2025 Live Coverage
- The New Stack: Bringing Joy Back to the Web: Fediverse vs. Centralized Apps
- TechCrunch: Threads makes it easier to evangelize the open social web with a new direct link feature
- The Verge: An invitation to the Fediverse
- WeDistribute: Live coverage of FediForum September 2024
- The New Stack: FediForum Showcases New Fediverse Apps and Developer Network.
- Breaking coverage in The Verge: Meta showed off their Threads product’s Fediverse integration for the first time at FediForum. Other coverage at Engadget, TechCrunch, 9To5Mac, TimesNow and more.
- Live blog of FediForum by WeDistribute.
Recording from the first FediForum Special Event
On September 11, 2025, award-winning author, professor and researcher of contemporary communications technologies Robert W. Gehl presented his new book:
Move Slowly and Build Bridges. Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the struggle for democratic social media. Oxford University Press, August 2025.
Here is the recording:
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