When people register for FediForum, we ask them what topics they’d like to discuss at FediForum. Here is some of what they said we could publish:

Saskia Welch (Saskia@newsmast.social):

How we make the fediverse mainstream & how we can bring more young people to fediverse platforms.

Andressa Inácio de Oliveira Bonatto (@andi@red.niboe.info):

Open science

Bryan Newbold (@bnewbold@social.coop):

• collaboration and coordination with atproto and other protocols

• interoperable identity systems

• moderation tooling

• data portability

@alontra@ursal.zone:

New applications of the federated social media model (music, games, film, etc.); geopolitical implications of the expansion of the fediverse;

Seth Goldstein (@pch@s3th.me):

How to get the most out of the fediverse

T Foster (@FreddieJ@newsmast.social):

Patchwork & channel.org.

news publishing, the future of news and the fediverse.

growing the fediverse and onboarding organisations.

@emilynguyen@flipboard.social:

Moderation, federation, unified identity, trust & safety

Jon Wesselink (@Jon@m.fedica.com):

Tools and apps on the fediverse

Babette Knauer (@Bibliothecaris@social.edu.nl):

• studying academics’ mastodon use: drivers and hurdles

• decentralized social media in academia; a university library’s perspective

• applying open science in our mastodon communications

Julian Lam (julian@community.nodebb.org):

Conversational context syncing (topic backfill, improving sync between instances, etc.)

Rainer Fehrenbacher (@rainer@climatejustice.social):

Enabling and supporting journalists, news agencies, and progressive ngos onto the fediverse to escape the influence of billionaire madmen.

Dave Peck (@davepeck@davepeck.org):

I’m unfortunately pretty busy on the days of this forum, so i plan to hang back and mostly listen & learn.

Tim Chambers (@tchambers@indieweb.social):

Emerging fediverse software platforms, evolving fediverse standards more quickly, and enabling new funding models for fediverse development

Mayel de Borniol (@mayel@sunbeam.city):

+1 for the open science network discussion

Dr Implausible

Meh. that’s it, that’s the topic: why am i feeling so ambivalent about posting on mastodon. why does it feel like a bad toothache? is it me? am i the problem? or is it some lingering trauma from usenet flamewars of yore? dunno.

Stan Ros (https://www.threads.net/@stan_ros_):

Spam/scripts

blocklists

defederation propagation and observability

André Menrath (@linos@graz.social):

Feps, non-note object types, relays.

Eric Fassbender (@fassbender@sciences.social):

Privacy, trust and surveillance

Georgia Mountford

Leading with ai, shaping the future, breaking boundaries, smart systems, and so much more.

bonfire@indieweb.social:

Open science network ( https://openscience.network )

Jeff Sikes (@box464@mastodon.social):

The “trillian” era of open social is upon us - clients like tapestry, flipboard, newsmast, openvibes, friendica, etc. that combine timelines of multiple platforms into one.

Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca):

Social web foundation

activitypub book from o’reilly media

activitypub end-to-end encryption

activitypub api

Gilles Dutilh (@depemig@scicomm.xyz):

• music in the fediverse

• discoverability of content

• user experience (in the broad sense)

Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social):

How to persuade journalists and public officials to migrate away from centralized platforms.

Richard MacManus (https://mastodon.social/@ricmac):

Fediverse development

Jay Baker (https://todon.eu/@MediaActivist):

How we can built a radical media network similar to the french reseau mutu, using the power of the fediverse. also: how to better communicate the differences between the fediverse and centralised social media to regular users, in order to promote the importance of the principles of the fediverse.

Akhilesh Thite (@akhileshthite@mastodon.social):

Social reader, a p2p offline client for reading and following microblogs on the fediverse.

Ben Pate (@benpate@mastodon.social):

How the fediverse outgrows the old social networking models

@andrs.svds@threads.net:

• integrity / trust & safety

• content moderation & the fediverse

• blocklists & appeals

Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq@mastodon.social & @quillmatiq@threads.net):

Ways to educate the public about the fediverse, tools to help build better integration across the network (auth, easier following mechanisms etc.), and moderation tooling.

palak_sheth@mastodon.social:

How the fediverse complies with gdpr

Peter Cottle (@pcottle@threads.net):

Fediverse education and adoption

Manton Reece (@manton@manton.org):

Activitypub compatibility across platforms, mastodon api improvements.

naturzukunft@mastodon.social:

C2s

Wesley Fryer (wfryer@mastodon.cloud):

Lists and discovering educators / users with similar interests

Erin Kissane (@kissane@mas.to):

Fediverse governance research

Kirsten Lambertsen

Identity

@johannab@wandering.shop:

Moderator networking; platform-independent moderation tools or resources; new platform initiatives

Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr@social.coop):

Eager to share news about our new open social incubator project at medlab, supporting a new cohort of community builders on the fediverse.

Simon Blackstein (@sblackst@ios.exchange):

• moderation and safety

• protocol security enhancements

• hear from the community

Lisa Dusseault

Activitypub account portability

Petri Kajander (@petri@mstdn.social):

How to consolidate your presence, content and distribution in a decentralised and preserved way. social media duplication is not productive.

Andrew Losowsky (@losowsky@mstdn.social):

Journalism and media

advertising

identity

simplifying inbox

moderation tools

Matthias Pfefferle (pfefferle@mastodon.social):

Publishing long form content (articles). federated intents (sharing, following, reply, …)

@Chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net:

New services supporting the fediverse, and how to get public services (eg local government) to move from proprietory/centralized systems

Ben Werdmuller (@ben@werd.social):

Onboarding the media / journalists, alternative platforms, ecosystem tools

@risottobias@tech.lgbt:

Federated decisions, federated administration

Anca Mosoiu (@anca@allpeep.social):

Private communities, content publishing and federation, wordpress

Daniel Bennett (@advocate@polity.social):

Standards, integrating with communicating with elected officials and government agencies.

Samir Al-Battran (samir@fedica.com):

I would like to discuss:

1. building tools for the fediverse

2. app discovery

Jaz-Michael King (@jaz@mastrodon.iftas.org):

Trust and safety, integrity, moderator support

Ujun Jeong (ujeong@mastodon.world):

Open ended

Chris Alemany (chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca):

Promotion, barriers to wider adoption.

Naghmeh Sabermajidi

Focus on user behavior: investigate how users interact within the fediverse. this could include studies on community building, content sharing, privacy concerns, and migration patterns from traditional

Jayne Samuel-Walker (@TCMuffin@toot.wales):

Llms (erroneously called ai!) and their impact on the fediverse…positive as well as negative.

Michael Foster (@michael@newsmast.social):

Expanding the social web, onboarding organisations, patchwork

Çağan Mert İŞLEK (@islekcaganmert@pebble.social):

Decentralized super apps via theprotocols, competing with disinformation against fediverse, united moderation possibilities, account migration standard

Bjorn Beijnon (@bbeijnon@mastodon.nl):

Resisting dominant data practices by big tech companies in everyday life.

David Abramson

Funding of open source development projects

regenerative economies and open tech

how blockchain will impact/aid in decentralized social media

Tom Brown (tom@herestomwiththeweather.com):

Interoperability, testing

Thomas Webb (@tjw@haxe.social):

Software developmente

@thisismissem@hachyderm.io:

Moderation, trust & safety, federation management

Richard Whitt

Governance and ethics