FediForum September, 2024
/2024-09/
Thursday, September 12
Speed Demos
- Fedica
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A social media publishing, analytics and discovery platform. Focusing on federated social networks and bridging the transition with legacy socials. More info about Fedica.
By Samir Al-Battran (@samir@m.fedica.com).
- IFTAS CCS
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Content Classification Service from IFTAS, subscribes via webhooks, detecting and alerting if certain content such as known CSAM is posted to your instance. More info about IFTAS CCS.
By Emelia Smith, Tech Lead (@thisismissem@hachyderm.io).
- TrueFans
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A new podcasting 2.0 super app which creates an ActivityStream for each user. Each user can choose what activities to share with the Fediverse, e.g Podcast played, time listened and value paid. More info about TrueFans.
By Sam Sethi, CEO TrueFans (@samsethi@podcastindex.social).
- Quiblr
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A modern, accessible client for Lemmy with an intuitive interface and a private, on-device recommendation engine. More info about Quiblr.
By Marcus Joseph (@Aurelius@lemmy.world).
- Threads ActivityPub Progress
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Going to demo the new features since our last demo, and also give a mini state-of-the-union. More info about ActivityPub and Threads.
By Peter Cottle (@pcottle@threads.net).
Unconference Session Notes
- Session: Non-Centralized Social Media Protocols: When to Use What and How They Work Together?
- Session: Trust & Safety in the Fediverse + Protocol Issues
- Session: WordPress as a Publishing Tool for the Fediverse
- Session: Discussion About Fedisharing (Mastodon vs Threads)
- Session: How the Fediverse Can Help Artists Thrive
- Session: App Libraries and Integration Tools
- Session: Content Discovery and the Chicken and Egg Problem (Workshop)
- Session: Democracy in the Fediverse
- Session: Fedica Q&A and Full Demo
- Session: TrueFans: Podcasting and Music. How We Use ActivityStreams, Micropayments and Share to the Fediverse.
- Session: Federated Super Apps Based on Fediverse
- Session: Funding and Sustainability for Open Source Technology
- Session: The Role of Decentralized Social Media in Academia
- Session: Marketing & Messaging for ‘Open Social Web’ / the Fediverse (PR for the Layperson)
- Session: LOLA: Account Portability Interop Spec
- Session: Nostr’s Fediverse Projects: ditto.pub, protest.net etc.
- Session: User Personas of the Fediverse and Social Media
- Session: Learn How to Use Friendica
- Session: The Social/Political/Economic Approach to Essence of the Fediverse and Decentralization
Friday, September 13
Speed Demos
- sub.club
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We’ll be demo’ing the creator and fan experience using sub.club to offer premium content on ActivityPub. More about sub.club.
By Bart Decrem (@bart@moth.social).
- Social Reader: A New P2P Offline ActivityPub Client
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A P2P and offline ActivityPub client for reading and following microblogs on the Fediverse. More about Social Reader.
By Akhilesh Thite (@akhileshthite@mastodon.social).
- Open Science Network
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A Bonfire flavor focused on Open Science features for a network of scientists, developers and organizations building the next generation of federated digital spaces for open science. More about Open Science Network.
By Ivan Minutillo (@bonfire@indieweb.social)
- Mastodon API Clients With Micro.blog
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We’ve had ActivityPub support for years. Now we’re adding initial support for posting to Micro.blog from clients that use the Mastodon API, and a new FEP to describe what parts of the API servers support. More about micro.blog.
By Manton Reece (@manton@manton.org).
- New ActivityPub Features in Flipboard
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This new feature is the next step in our federation roadmap that we’ve announced just recently. It allows more connection in the fediverse. More info about ActivityPub at Flipboard.
By Emily Nguyen, Head of Product (@emilynguyen@flipboard.social).
Unconference Sessions
- Session: Fediverse Discovery Provider Project
- Session: Fediverse and Academia
- Session: Scheduling + Analytics Tools in the Fediverse
- Session: Interop Quality Assurance & FediTest – Making ActivityPub Systems Reliably Interoperate
- Session: OAuth Changes in Mastodon
- Session: Role of Public Institutions for the Positive Development of the Fediverse
- Session: Open Science Network
- Session: Adapting Client APIs to Different Fediverse Platforms
- Session: How to Handle the Explosion of Identies We Create When Participating in Fediverse
- Session: Onboarding the News
- Session: How Large Should Servers Be and How Can That Influence the Federation Health?
- Session: Experimenting With Federated Content Labelling & Fact-checking / Peer-review
- Session: Handling ActivityPub Replies with Limited Visibility
- Session: Using ActivityPub (Mastodon, etc) for Citizens to Communicate With Their Elected Officials and Government Agencies
- Session: Persuading Journalists and Other Info Providers to Move Off Twitter and into the Fediverse
- Session: Payments on the Fediverse: sub.club & Decentralized Payments
Saturday, September 14
Speed Demos
- Ghost
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A first look at federated long-form publishing in Ghost. More info about federation with Ghost.
By John O’Nolan (@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz).
- An ActivityPub Observatory
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This tool will help server developers understand what messages they are likely to encounter in the wild rather than in theory.
By Darius Kazemi (@darius@friend.camp).
- Channels (Custom Feeds) and Patches (Server Plugins) for the Fediverse
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New ways to deliver content and onboard organisations through Fediverse channels. Backed up by easy to use plugins and third party services on the Patchwork Dashboard. More info about Newsmast.
By Michael Foster (@michael@newsmast.social).
- Fediverse Workflows: Beyond ActivityPub with Emissary / Bandwagon
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Launching a Fediverse app that’s not just a micro-blog requires new workflows for regular people. Demo’ing my first try. More info about Emissary / Bandwagon.
By Ben Pate (@benpate@mastodon.social).
Unconference Sessions
- Session: Building Communities in the Fediverse: Channel.org & Patchwork
- Session: Location Check-ins, Place and Arrive Activity
- Session: DIDs, Portability, and Interoperability
- Session: Better Workflows for the Social Web: ActivityPub, Bandwagon, and More
- Special joint session with our Fediverse friends in Berlin, Germany, who had their own Fediverse day at the same time.
- Session: Decentralized Change Making: Harnessing the Fediverse for Political and Civic Organizing
- Session: Fediverse Governance Research Findings Discussion
- Session: Activity Streams Types and Protocols for Events, Schedules, Calendars for Meetings, Conferences, and Unconferences
- Session: Exploring the IETF as a Venue for Fediverse Standardization
- Session: Federated ePortfolios for Lifelong Learners
- Session: IFTAS Update
- Session: Brainstorm: Collect the Value Proposition of the Fediverse
- Session: ActivityPub Data Observatory Discussion
- Session: Unwritten Rules of Fediverse Development: What Do We Need to Know?