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:

Emelia Smith (@thisismissem@hachyderm.io):

Moderation, trust & safety, the usual.

Kirsten Lambertsen (@mizkirsten@mastodon.social):

How the fedi is uniquely positioned to empower and support artists and creatives.

Matthew Terenzio (@librenews@mastodon.social):

Geosocial, signed content, portable identities

Ujun Jeong (@ujeong1@mastodon.world):

Fediversesharing: a novel dataset on cross-platform interaction dynamics between threads and mastodon users. the first dataset capturing interactions between 20,000+ threads users and 20,000+ mastodon users over a ten-month period. this dataset serves as a foundation for studying cross-platform interactions and the impact of federation as previously two separate platforms integrate. paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17926

Michelle Hughes (@MegaMichelle@a2mi.social):

Activitypub with events (like mobilizon).

end-to-end encryption.

better support for groups and threads (like lemmy, discourse).

Jaidyn Levesque (@jadedctrl@jam.xwx.moe):

Activity-servist, an activitypub implementation for common lisp.

Matze Schmidt

Private and social equity in context of content

Tom Brown (@tom@herestomwiththeweather.com):

Testing, interoperability

Seth Goldstein (@phillycodehound@indieweb.social):

The growth of pixelfed and the overall integration of the decentralized web.

Chad Kohalyk (@chadkoh.com):

Fiscal sustainability, bridging, standards, but also analytics and helping journalism orgs get on open social media platforms by building capabilities they rely on for trust and revenue. we need to talk about building power over the next 4 years. i hope we are not too late!

Edward Platt (@elplatt@greatjustice.net):

New user experience, conflict resolution, groups

Richard Whitt

With the impressive rise of fediverse projects, comes the need to align governance structures that bolster authentic human trust and accountability. join a conversation with richard whitt, president of the glianet alliance, to discuss how his growing coalition of net fiduciaries can help enhance the empowerment of humans at the edge of the net.

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

Threaded discussions on activitypub, conversation contexts, backfill, federated private groups (!!!!)

Michail Famelis (@mfamelis@fediscience.org):

How can i contribute as a computer science/software engineering academic researcher

Alissa Cooper (@alissacooper.bsky.social):

Recommender systems

Thomas Bennett (@tomi@mamot.fr):

I’m learning about scheme and guile, to get a better grip on what happens in spritely. also interested in all activitypub related subjects.

but, i’m new and come mostly to discover the community.

@samvie@chaos.social:

Fediverse and the public sphere, fediverse and the need for policy advocacy

Daniel Supernault (@pixelfed@pixelfed.social):

Pixelfed and loops

Eric Fassbender (@fassbender@sciences.social):

Blocklists and their effectiveness

relays and their effect on content federation

bridging systems

John Wunderlich (@privacycdn.bsky.social):

Federated id

Björn Wijers (@BjornW@mastodon.social):

Sharing experiences on how to help civil/civic organizations to onboard the fediverse

Wes Biggs

Interoperability, decentralization

Lisa Dusseault (@lisarue@mastodon.geekery.org):

Activitypub chartering & chartered items, implementations, data rights

Zander Arnao (@zublius.bsky.social):

Strategies for growth and development of decentralized web platforms.

Preston Doster (@esk@hachyderm.io):

Instance resilience, scaling, sharding. open source mastodon infra. alternate domains + impending issue with .io tld. ideas for scaling moderation across communities.

ozoned@social.ozoned.net:

How do we create a more social social media? there are people behind all of the software that have given away their hard work for a better world. they deserve respect and for all of us to talk to them and not just yell across the internet at them. i’ve started fireside fedi in order to get to know some of these folks, but what more can us non-developers do?

Koen de Jonge (@koen@procolix.social):

I would like to present the fediversity.eu project and give a very rudimentary demo of what we are building and why that is interesting for the community.

Bryan Newbold (@bnewbold.net):

Identity systems (eg, dids)

oauth

user intents (eg, opt-in / opt-out mechanisms)

moderation: rule engines, design interventions, assessment

Ana Jamborcic (@Eurotrashpanda@mastodon.social):

Intimacy gradients and new ways to structure communications on decentralized platforms.

Sohyeon Hwang (@s0hw@hci.social):

Governance tools and policies (especially, for coordinating on big issues across communities). incompatibilities and interoperability. bridges.

LX Cast (https://linkedin.com/in/xplusx):

Integrating federation principles and standards, interoperability, peer2peer, prosocial design

Johanna B (@johannab@cosocial.ca):

Better ways to network amongst admins/moderators for shared intel.

getting public institutions and governments and officials moved to open platforms

Timnit Gebru (@timnitGebru@dair-community.social):

Accessibility on the fediverse, genocide prevention in multiple languages, using the fediverse for activism.

Julian Fietkau (@julian@fietkau.social):

Academic exchange and collaboration on the fediverse – what’s already working and what’s still missing?

Gilles Dutilh (@DePemig@social.coop):

• how to (not) persuade friends and family to cross the rubicon

• matching people (like me) with projects to contribute to

• scientific communication and publishing

Jeff Sikes (@box464@mastodon.social):

Excited to see demos of new development ideas across the fediverse and beyond.

@icaria36@sonomu.club:

How to build a fun & sustainable scene for musicians and music lovers

Tolulope Oshinowo (@tolu@micro.blogs.princeton.edu):

Feeds, mastodon clients and bluesky clients

Gabriel Marin (@gabriel@hci.social):

Feeds, mastodon clients, bluesky clients

@dawn@cosocial.ca:

Cooperative governance, financially sustainable operations, climate impacts of decentralized hosting

Freddie Johnson (@FreddieJ@newsmast.social):

Social web advocacy, growing the fediverse, strategic steps at a network level, what to do about trust & safety.

Saskia Welch (@saskia@newsmast.social):

Growing the open social web and raising awareness beyond the current ecosystem.

Bruce Lawson (@brucelawson@vivaldi.net):

Making fediverse more accessible to legacy social media users

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

Trust & safety on the open social web

Anca Mosoiu (@anca@mastodon.xyz):

Opt-in federation

James Marshall (@jamesmarshall@sfba.social):

Private posting! i’d like to give a short (~10 slides) presentation about it.

Sebastian Korfmann (@skorfmann.com):

Atproto / rapidly increasing adoption / embedded social experiences in existing platforms

Jesse Karmani (@jesseplusplus@mastodon.social):

Private account use cases with activitypub, including private posts and mutual connections.

Davide Eynard (@mala@fosstodon.org):

Local-first, privacy-preserving algorithms (search, ranking, recos)

Gregory Scallan (@greg@flipboard.social):

Making the fediverse useful for newbies

Scott Stolz (scott@loves.tech):

Multi-protocol platforms, bridges, portable and nomadic identity, federated single sign on, financially sustainable operations, empowering creators, artists, and freelancers.

Michael Sprague (https://sez.us/user/mespr):

Standards, healthy collaboration and the business models that promote it. identity, provenance and trust.