Moving the
Open Social Web
Forward.
The unconference where the people rebuilding how we best interact online — across every open protocol — meet, compare notes, demo their work, and set the agenda themselves.
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.
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Next FediForum: 6–7 October 2026
Registration is open. Propose sessions. Suggest cool demos.
Recordings and session notes from FediForum April 2026 are now available
Speed demos, intro talks to ActivityPub and ATProtocol, a fireside chat, and notes for over 40 unconference sessions
Announcing FediForum Connect
Connecting value-aligned organizations, communities and creators with products and services that make them successful on the Open Social Web
About the unconference
Learn what FediForum is all about
Check out our recent events, watch our PeerTube channel, or read session summaries organized by topic.
As FediForum is an unconference, the session agendas you see there were created democratically each morning, and then run by FediForum participants themselves.
What’s an unconference?
Good question — and a few others come up a lot too. We keep a running answer for both.
Every FediForum, in full
Each of these opens that event's proceedings: the agenda as the room built it, speed-demo and keynote videos, and notes from every session, written up by the people who were in them.
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Highlights
A sample of what happens at FediForum — introductions to the core protocols, fireside chats, and keynotes from across the open social web.
FediForum April 2026
Previous highlights
In the news
Press coverage
- TechCrunch: Bounce introduces a tool to move your Mastodon account to Bluesky
- TechCrunch: Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse
- The Verge: AltStore's alternative iPhone app store is coming to more countries
- 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
- The Verge: Meta showed off their Threads product's Fediverse integration for the first time at FediForum — also covered by Engadget, TechCrunch, 9To5Mac, TimesNow
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