Once again, the Open Social Web community is meeting online for the global FediForum unconference, to discuss, teach and learn, and move the Open Social Web forward.

If you think the commercial social media platforms are, let’s say, “not perfect”, and you are looking forward to alternatives that are:

• decentralized,
• community-governed,
• based on open protocols (such as ActivityPub, ATProto, and others),
• open-source,
• open for innovation,
• or all of the above and more!

Consider joining us and help the community build the future we all want to see. FediForum is scheduled from 8am to 1pm Pacific Time, which is 17:00 to 22:00 Central European Time. This allows people everywhere from central Europe and Africa to the west coast of the Americas to participate. We’ve had some brave souls come to FediForum from the Asia-Pacific region, too, so don’t let that deter you if you live there.

FediForum is an unconference, so You, the attendee, determine the topics that will be discussed. Bring your topic(s)! Whatever the open social web topic, chances are you will meet like-minded individuals at FediForum and have a great time discussing, teaching, learning, and often, start new projects with people you just met!

To see what has been discussed at FediForum in the past, browse the session notes from more than 200 sessions held over the past few years! And of course, there are the keynotes and software demos showing off the latest cool open social web software.

Whether you are a geek, a product builder, a community organizer, a political scientist, a user, an entrepreneur, an employee of a big company, or independent, a trust and safety professional or volunteer, or many other things, changes are you will have fun and create some invaluable new connections!

Questions? Ask!

Topics requested or proposed by attendees

When people register for FediForum, we ask them which sessions they are thinking of running (remember, FediForum is an unconference!) or wish they could attend. Here is some of what they said we could publish:

Cagan Mert Islek (@cagan@cmislek.me)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Getting personal blogs to replace social media pages (providers concept)
• creating a federated alternative to streaming services

Wants to learn more about:

• Rss and readers ul for activitypub
• relay-based fediverse setups
• digital ownership on activitypub
• defining “reasonable” for ‘commercial existence’ on fediverse

Jayne Samuel-Walker (@tcmuffin@toot.wales)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Growing the fediverse at a rate which is sustainable in the long term.

Wants to learn more about:

• Growing the fediverse at a rate which is sustainable in the long term.

Andre Kudra c/o esatus AG (@kudrix.bsky.social)

Wants to learn more about:

• Current adoption, market potential, technological streams

Johanna Botari (@johannab@cosocial.ca)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• I would like be part of discussions on implementation and integration for community purposes. we have built and are building great tech; how do we get the non-developers who have a need to contribute to building, as well?

Wants to learn more about:

• How others are implementing open social technologies for community benefits. looking to stay connected to those developing more niche platforms, and see what i can contribute as a technology integrator/tech services talent.