Proceedings from FediForum, March 2024

All times given in Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC-7).

Schedule

Tuesday, March 19

8:00am	Welcome and introduction
	Speed demo session 1 Developers of cool Fediverse applications demo their creations in 5 minutes each. ActivityPub integration in NodeBB How do forums look on the fediverse? Let’s find out. More about NodeBB. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Julian Lam (@julian@community.nodebb.org). Elk: A nimble Mastodon web client Discover the open-source Mastodon progressive web app built with web technologies. More about Elk. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Daniel Roe (@daniel@roe.dev). Customise posts to Bluesky, Mastodon and Nostr with Nootti Learn how to enhance your decentralized social media presence with Nootti in this quick tour guide session. More about Nootti. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Petri Kajander (@petri@mstdn.social). Fediverse communities and technology from Newsmast Introducing Newsmast - our knowledge-sharing community experience, content curation and charitable mission - and our spin-off technology, Patchwork. More about Newsmast. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Michael Foster (@michael@newsmast.social). PieFed, a federated forum / reddit / lemmy alternative made with Python PieFed is a decentralized, ad-free social platform in the fediverse, prioritizing individual control, safety, and community engagement. Built with Python and open-source. More about PieFed. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Rimu Atkinson, founder and developer (@rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz). Threads in the Fediverse! This demo will be a quick overview of how we’re onboarding Threads users to the Fediverse, and a brief overview of the functionality! More about Threads and the Fediverse. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Peter Cottle, Software Engineer (@pcottle@threads.net).
	Collaborative agenda creation Raise your hand to propose a session, announce it to the group, and put it on the schedule. (More info about unconferences in the FAQ)
9:30am	Session: Patchwork and more: innovating with Mastodon Session: User migration across multiple social media platforms Session: Accountable data governance Session: The Threadverse - Lemmy, Kbin, PieFed Session: Onboarding new developers to the Fediverse Session: Fedicamp? Ideas for fediverse alternatives to bandcamp for musicians
10:30am	Session: Politics of Threads joining the Fediverse and surveillance capitalism Session: Fediverse features brainstorming: what do you want to see in a new Fediverse platform? Session: IFTAS quarterly activities update - supporting Fediverse moderators / Fediverse trust & safety Session: Data migration (identity, content, etc) SocialCG task force Session: User migration across multiple social media platforms (repeat session) Session: What is acceptable for organizations/businesses to do in the Fediverse? What does the Fediverse need to support enterprises, running their own instances?
11:30am	Session: An advocacy organization for the Fediverse Session: Application interoperability Session: CSAM (Child Sexual Abuse Material) on the Fediverse Session: Private vs. public communities on Fediverse: features, onboarding, etc Session: FediTok Session: Bringing groups to Mastodon (private or public groups)
12:30pm	Closing

Wednesday, March 20

8:00am	Welcome
	Speed demo session 2 Developers of cool Fediverse applications demo their creations in 5 minutes each. Emissary: ActivityPub+RSS+IndieWeb Emissary is a personal/small group Fediverse server that bridges ActivityPub, RSS, and IndieWeb protocols. More about Emissary. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. by Ben Pate (@benpate@mastodon.social) SoraSNS: iOS Fediverse client with local algorithms SoraSNS for Mastodon, Misskey, Bluesky, Catodon is a futuristic Fediverse iOS app, with local prediction algorithms to learn interests and feature posts from across the Fediverse into your timeline. More info about SoraSNS. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Houshida Ryukichi, Solo developer (@me@mszpro.com). IFTAS FediCheck IFTAS FediCheck is a managed service that can push domain blocks to your server and redact them too. More about IFTAS. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. by Emelia Smith (@thisismissem@hachyderm.io) Fediverse Communication between Nostr, Mastodon & Bluesky with nos.social Specifically how both Mastodon and Bluesky posts are visible in Nostr and communication / replies amongst the three protocols. More about nos.social. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Evan Henshaw Plath, CEO nos.social (@rabble@nos.social). Fediverse support for static websites with Social Inbox The Social Inbox combines the security of a static website with distribution of content and social interactions through the Fediverse. More about Social Inbox. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By fauno (@f@sutty.nl) and Mauve (@mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe) ActivityPods, a framework to build decentralized ActivityPub-compatible apps Presentation of the Pods provider frontend and of several apps (including Mastopod, a Mastodon-compatible app) that all store data in the user’s Pod. More about ActivityPods. Recording on PeerTube, YouTube. By Sébastien Rosset, lead developer (@srosset@framapiaf.org).
	Collaborative agenda creation Raise your hand to propose a session, announce it to the group, and put it on the schedule. (More info about unconferences in the FAQ)
9:15am	Session: Fediverse Developer Network / fedidevs: building a resource for developers Session: ActivityPods: questions & answers, feedback of any kind Session: Nostr & the Fediverse Session: Happiness in the Fediverse Session: Distributed Press & P2P ActivityPub Session: I started an instance for my IRL friends and it worked. Ask me anything!
10:15am	Session: Fediverse Moderation: challenges, best practices, resources, and future directions Session: A plugin architecture for Fediverse? Session: Making a living on the social web (e.g. monetization) Session: Building tools for the Fediverse Session: Testing the Fediverse and FediTest Session: Threads as a gateway to mass adoption of open social web Session: Empowering creatives in the Fediverse
11:15am	Session: IFTAS trust & safety / moderation AMA Session: BOTS! OMG BOTS! Keep them out with human attestation and decorrelated pseudonyms Session: Marketing messaging / content creation to advocate for Fediverse Session: Opt-in federation - getting beyond just allowlists Session: Awesome Fediverse apps part 1 (Emissary and beyond) Session: Scholarly communication in the Fediverse Session: Data portability in a distributed and federated world Session: Attention Democracy Session: Verified accounts and authenticated content
12:15pm	Closing