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Proceedings of FediForum, April 2026

/2026-04/

All times given in Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC-7).

Tuesday, April 28

8:00am	Welcome and opening.
	Speed demos: developers show off their cool open social web software in 5 min. Full playlist on PeerTube or YouTube. End to End Encryption with ActivityPub and MLS Emissary and Bonfire are building end-to-end encrypted messaging for the Fediverse, with general availability planned for the end of June. Here’s a peek at progress in Emissary. More info about Emissary. By Ben Pate (@benpate@mastodon.social). Bounce Update: PDS Provider Migrations A new flow in Bounce that allows you to choose a PDS to migrate your bridged Atmosphere Account to. More info about Bounce. By Ryan Barrett (@snarfed.org, @snarfed.org@snarfed.org), A New Social. FediProfile The decentralized link-in-bio that connects to the Fediverse. Share links, collect badges, and own your online presence – no corporation in the middle. More info about FediProfile. By Maho Pacheco (@mapache@hachyderm.io, @maho.dev). Fedica for PeerTube Fedica for PeerTube is for creators who publish videos across social media platforms, or those who want to plan their social media calendar. This integration introduces PeerTube to hundreds of thousands of creators who use Fedica. More info about Fedica for PeerTube. By Samir Al-Battran (@samir@m.fedica.com, @samir.fedica.com). Open registration on Mastodon is possible with the right tools monitoring new accounts! A new Mastodon tool for administrators that will watch all new signups and apply a broad range of customizable test to determine if accounts are likely to be real people or bot accounts. More info about this tool. By Stefan Hayden (@stefan@gardenstate.social). FediForum Connect A curated directory connecting organizations, communities and creators to projects and organizations who are committed to making their customers successful on the Open Social Web. More info about FediForum Connect. By Johannes Ernst (@j12t@j12t.social, @j12t.org).
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
9:30am	How To Bullshit Your Way Through a Conversation about ActivityPub By Evan Prodromou, Social Web Foundation and editor of the ActivityPub standard. One of the best bluffers in the field of distributed social networks gives you just enough knowledge about ActivityPub to sound smarter than everyone around you. In this talk, Evan will cover the essential architecture of ActivityPub, what works and what doesn’t, and what is coming up next for the standard. You’ll walk out of this talk with just enough knowledge to speak with confidence about anything at Fediforum. Follow Evan at @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org. Attendee notes.
	Atproto: A Technical Introduction By Daniel Holmgren, head of protocol at Bluesky PBC AT Protocol (atproto) is the open protocol powering Bluesky and the emerging Atmosphere. This talk gives a high-level overview of atproto’s approach to decentralized networking, including the data model, identity, the firehose, the lexicon schema system, and how these pieces work together to facilitate large-scale open social applications. Follow Daniel at @dholms.at. Attendee notes.
	Unconference sessions: FediProfile/BadgeFed: Office Hours Setting up Fediverse at Universities How to Bring More People into the Fediverse? Surveying (to be) Fediversians Turning static sites into Fediverse nodes Fedi Appliance How to Collect Content Moderation and Other User Data for Social Science Research (AT Protocol) The Feasibility of Implementing More Democratic Governance Models in Online Social Spaces If Not Now, Then When? A Call for Action to Collaborate for the Fediverse as a Public Interest Infrastructure! Intro to the Open Social Web Tools for Collective Sense-Making Theory of the Post-Social Media Era: Discussion of a Recent Academic Paper Mycelium: How Can the Social Web Enable Governance and Bring Trust to AI Agents? Fediverse Content Creation
12:30pm	Community announcements.
12:30pm	Session recaps, closing.
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 1.

Wednesday, April 29

8:00am	Welcome and opening.
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
	Firesite Chat with Kim van Sparrentak Kim, a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Groenlinks-PvdA party, co-wrote legislation that limits the influence of major tech companies and is focused on digital affairs and LGBTQIA+ rights. (Wikipedia page) In conversation with Johannes Ernst. Follow Kim at @kimvsparrentak@eupolicy.social or @kimvsparrentak.bsky.social.
9:30am	Unconference sessions: It’s the Arts: the Fediverse as a tool for creating art and collaboration among artists Q&A Open Social Awards and PublicSpaces conference & Bazaar Bringing personal domains with provider approach, addressing portability Globally Inclusive Fediverse Handles (i.e. beyond simple Latin Script letters) Stefan’s Awesome Admin Tool for automated spam account management and other stuff FediForum Connect: Curated Product & Service Directory for the Open Social Web. Feedback Requested FediUrbanism Evolution: Community-first Digital Governance Frameworking Fediverse Join Parties 🎉 Fedica for PeerTube (+Mastodon+Pixelfed+Bluesky) Demo/Feedback Democracy of Reach Separating Moderation Tooling from Open Social Software / Third-party Moderation Software & You Small is Beautiful (Smaller Focused Group Discussions on Fediverse) Bell Ringers - Going Back to the Walled Gardens Advice for Code to Take Census of Fediverse Handles Trust Commons, or: What Would We Build Without Digital Identities?
12:30pm	Session recaps, closing.
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 2.

Thursday, April 30

8:00am	Welcome and opening.
	Speed demos: developers show off their cool open social web software in 5 min. Full playlist on PeerTube or YouTube. tags.pub tags.pub is a global hashtag server for the Fediverse. You can follow an account like @example@tags.pub and it will boost all the content tagged `#example` from across the Fediverse. More info about tags.pub. By Evan Prodromou (@evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org). Mastodon's recent UX changes We’re demoing some recent feature additions and UX improvements introduced to Mastodon 4.5 and 4.6, as well as the rationale behind many of these changes. More info about Mastodon. By Imani Joy, Head of Design (@imanijoy@mastodon.social). Eurosky accounts A quick walk through Eurosky account creation and migration for existing accounts and an overview of future features. More info about Eurosky accounts. By Sherif Elsayed-Ali (@sherif.eurosky.social). Bonfire Mosaic: co-designing federated groups and publisher tools with Jacobin DE & Totnes Pulse Bonfire is a modular framework for building community-governed digital spaces on the Fediverse. We are demoing federated groups and new publisher tools, including embeddable federated comment threads for blogs and CMS sites, co-designed with Jacobin DE (a political magazine) and Totnes Pulse (a local community newspaper) as first pilot communities. More info about Bonfire Mosaic. By Ivan Minutillo & Mayel de Borniol, Bonfire creators/maintainers (@bonfire@bonfire.cafe) Flohmarkt – federated decentralized classified ad software using ActivityPub We are showing how you can use other fedi platforms (e.g. Mastodon) to interact with small ads and talk to the seller via direct messages. More info about Flohmarkt. By Philip Patsch, Decent Software (@Profpatsch@mastodon.xyz)
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
9:30am	Unconference sessions: Mastodon 4.6 Demo, continued Embedded Comments & Groups in Bonfire and in the Fediverse Growth of the Open Social Web: Follow-up from the Un-workshop Activitypub Quo Vadis – Standardization, FEPs, a living standard? Fediverse Payments Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media + Sneak Peek Demo of Evidence-based “Nutritional Labels” Tool for Community Governance Is It Possible to Create a Large Social Company That Pays Good Salaries and Can Raise Capital That Is Structurally Incapable of Enshittifying? Defining “Reasonable” for Commercial Presence in Fediverse Collecting Ideas For the “Plus One (+1)” Concept (a Public Advocacy Strategy Designed for Collective Advocacy for the Wider Open Social Web) Moderator Praxis on Distributed Platforms: Standing in the Gaps so Others Don’t Fall
12:30pm	Session recaps, closing.
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 3.