FediForum June, 2025

/2025-06/

All times are given in pacific daylight time (UTC-7). Schedule is subject to change.

Wednesday, June 4 (the day before FediForum)

Optional “Meet & Greet”. Come by to check out our online venue and test your equipment if you like. This is entirely optional.

Thursday, June 5

8:00 am	Welcome and opening
	Keynote: Ian Forrester Ian recently left BBC R&D where he was the senior firestarter, had a hand in their Mastodon instance, and worked on the future of social report. Ian is a huge believer in a notion of the public service internet which the fediverse plays an absolutely essential role in. Very interested beyond microblogging, and a regular user of Peertube, Pixelfed and others. Follow @cubicgarden@mas.to or @cubicgarden.com.
	Speed demos: developers show off their cool open social web software in 5 min Bounce: A Migration Tool for the Open Social Web Bounce is a tool that lets users migrate between platforms that use different protocols (ActivityPub and ATProto), using Bridgy Fed as a mediator to maintain as much of your social graph as possible. More info about Bounce. By Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq@mastodon.social, @quillmatiq.com) and Ryan Barrett (@snarfed.org@snarfed.org, @snarfed.org) Bandwagon and Emissary: The Fediverse is a Marketplace Bandwagon is rolling out online album sales, private releases, and more. Built on the new product connectors in Emissary. More info about Bandwagon By Ben Pate, Wagonmaster (@benpate@mastodon.social) Channel.org from Newsmast A public feed builder for the open social web, community-based micro-servers and an education programme for organisations. More info about Channel.org. By Michael Foster, Co-Founder (@michael@newsmast.social) Bonfire Social We will be announcing the Bonfire Social 1.0 release candidate and showcasing the latest features included in the release. More info about Bonfire Social By Ivan Minutillo, Bonfire maintainer (@bonfire@indieweb.social) Rethinking the social experience with Surf Break free from a single home feed and curate multiple timelines with sources from across the open social web, filtered to suit your mood. More info about Surf. By Mike McCue (@mike@flipboard.com) Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm (BYOTA) An approach to personal, local timeline algorithms that people can either run out-of-the-box or customize. More info about BYOTA. By Davide Eynard (@mala@fosstodon.org)
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
10:00 am	Unconference sessions, including: Orientation session: What's new on the Open Social Web? Laurens Hof, Fediverse Report.
12:00 noon	Keynote: Cory Doctorow Cory is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently PICKS AND SHOVELS and THE BEZZLE (followups to RED TEAM BLUES) and THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction book is THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION, a Big Tech disassembly manual. Follow @pluralistic@mamot.fr.
12:30 pm	Closing and recap
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 1

Friday, June 6

8:00 am	Welcome and opening
	Keynote: Christine Lemmer-Webber Christine has devoted her life to advancing user freedom. Realizing that the federated social web was fractured by a variety of incompatible protocols, she co-authored and shepherded ActivityPub’s standardization. She has also contributed to many other free and open source projects, including co-founding MediaGoblin. Christine established the open source Spritely Project to solve known problems in existing centralized and decentralized social media platforms and to re-imagine the way we build networked applications - work that now continues at the Spritely Institute under her guidance as Executive Director. Follow @cwebber@social.coop or @dustyweb.bsky.social.
	Movie premiere Premiere of the Fediverse movie by film maker Elena Rossini. Follow @_elena@mastodon.social.
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
9:30 am	Unconference sessions
12:30 pm	Community announcements
12:30 pm	Closing and recap
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 2

Saturday, June 7

8:00 am	Welcome and opening
	Speed demos: developers show off their cool open social web software in 5 min Encyclia: bridging ORCID into the Fediverse A live sneak peek of Encyclia’s bridging of ORCID content seen via Mastodon. More info about Encyclia. By Julian Fietkau (@julian@fietkau.social) Gobo: a nice, simple way to manage your social media An overview of Gobo’s cross-posting functionality. More info about Gobo. By David Harper (@freeformflow@hachyderm.io, @freeformflow.com) Manyfold: 3D print models over ActivityPub Manyfold is a self-hosted platform for organising, hosting and sharing 3D models, particularly for printing, and supports ActivityPub federation. More info about Manyfold. By James Smith (@floppy@mastodon.me.uk) BadgeFed: ActivityPub-decentralized microcredentials BadgeFed is a decentralized platform for issuing and verifying microcredentials (e.g. badges) using the Open Badges standard and ActivityPub protocol. By Maho Pacheco (@mapache@hachyderm.io) CareerCupid, using Django ActivityPub Toolkit CareerCupid is OkCupid for Jobs. It implements communication with the Fediverse and website users via ActivityPub natively. More info about Django ActivityPub Toolkit. By Raphael Lullis (@raphael@communick.com) ActivityFuzz ActivityFuzz is small local software that will simulate a public feed containing mock data from all known ActivityPub implementations. By Darius Kazemi (Engineer, Applied Social Media Lab, @darius@friend.camp)
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
9:30 am	Unconference sessions
12:30 pm	Community announcements
12:30 pm	Closing and recap
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 3

Unconference Session Notes

Session: What’s New on the Open Social Web? Orientation Session
Session: Ensuring Quality Remains Consistent (i.e. “Non-Enshittification”)
Session: Local-first Super App With Open Social Web Integrations
Session: Tightening the Publishing Loop: CMS to Social Web
Session: Personal Algorithms on the Fediverse
Session: activitypub.rocks - Maintaining the ActivityPub Homepage
Session: EU Fediverse: What Policies Do We Need to Establish Digital Public Infrastructure?
Session: How the Fediverse Can Enable Online Dating and Matching in a Better Way
Session: Politics of Protocols and Designing With Power in Mind
Session: Funding the Open Social Web
Session: Identity on the Social Web
Session: Moving Slow and Moving Collectively: Against Performativity on the Fediverse
Session: Federated Private Posting: Discussing Generally, and Presenting FriendSafe
Session: Custom Feeds on the Social Web / ActivityPub
Session: Setting Up a Safe and Fun Social Network for a School Class
Session: OAuth for Clients: Where We Are and Where We’re Going
Session: Good Constraints for Onboarding and ScalingUp
Session: Welcoming New Folks to Fedi and Bringing Small Communities to Fedi
Session: A Fediverse Communication Tool Kit
Session: News Curation
Session: Personal Social Networks on ActivityPub - Private Posting and UX
Session: Decentralizing Microcredentials with ActivityPub + OpenBadges (BadgeFed)
Session: Fedi MMO: Collaborate Building a Cozy 3D Social Interface to Social Media
Session: Presenting the Fediverse to Regular Folks Who Want to Quit Meta and X
Session: Threadiverse: Forums, Link Aggregators, and More!
Session: Payments on the Fediverse: Shut up and Take My Money!
Session: Geosocial: Physical or Logical Locations Like traewelling.de
Session: Implementing ActivityPub in 2025
Session: Resisting Surveillance Capitalism, On and Off the Fediverse
Session: What Will It Take to Implement Cory’s Vision?
Session: Bridgy Fed, Bounce, and Other Cross-protocol Interop and Bridging
Session: The EU Stack & Third Way - What It Could Mean for the Fediverse?
Session: Tools Tools Tools for the Fediverse - Bring Your Tool
Session: Knowledge Bases: Decentralized, Federated, Local-first Wikis
Session: Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism
Session: Fediverse of Truth: Disinformation in the Fediverse in the Post-truth Era
Session: Data and Account Portability
Session: Metrics, KPIs, Reach: An Open Social Web Approach
Session: Long-form Text
Session: Platforms For Young People in the Fediverse
Session: Moderating the Fediverse: IFTAS Update, and Open T&S Conversation
Session: Identity Across Accounts, Networks, and Protocols
Session: Academia and the Fediverse
Session: What Are the Stories We Need to Tell, and How Do We Tell Them?
Session: Building Trust/Safety into the ActivityPub API (Better UX for All)
Session: DSNP (?)
Session: EU DMA 2026 and Interoperability: Why It Matters for the Fediverse
Session: FediForum Strategy: How Can FediForum Work Even Better For You?
Session: More Than “Moderation”: Leveraging Community Connectors and Building Effective Third Places
Session: Climate Change
Session: Drawbacks of “Content-Based Addressing” (“Self-Authentication” as in ATproto) Within the Fediverse?