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.

Here’s the preliminary agenda. All times are given in pacific daylight time (UTC-7) (Link to time zone converter).

Monday, April 27 (the day before FediForum)

Optional “Meet & Greet” at 10:00am. Come by to check out our online venue and test your equipment if you like. This is entirely optional.

Tuesday, April 28

8:00am	Welcome and opening.
	Speed demos! Innovative Open Social Web software presented by their developers. We bet there is some cool software you had not seen yet but you'll start using!
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
9:30am	Pre-scheduled sessions: "How To Bullshit Your Way Through a Conversation about ActivityPub". By Evan Prodromou, Social Web Foundation and editor of the ActivityPub standard (@evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org) 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. "Atproto: A Technical Introduction". By Daniel Holmgren, head of protocol at Bluesky PBC (@dholms.at). 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. In parallel: attendee-led unconference sessions
12:30pm	Community announcements.
	Session recaps, closing.
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 1.

Wednesday, April 29

UPDATED 2026-04-28

8:00am	Welcome and opening.
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
	Fireside chat with Kim van Sparrentak, member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Groenlinks-PvdA party, who co-wrote legislation that limits the influence of major tech companies and is focused on digital affairs and LGBTQIA+ rights. (Wikipedia page)
9:30am	3 attendee-led unconference sessions, with parallel tracks.
12:30pm	Session recaps, closing.
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 2.

Thursday, April 30

8:00am	Welcome and opening.
	Speed demos! Innovative Open Social Web software presented by their developers. We bet there is some cool software you had not seen yet but you'll start using!
	Collaborative agenda making for the unconference. Bring your session ideas!
9:30am	3 attendee-led unconference sessions, with parallel tracks. Bring your session ideas!
12:30pm	Session recaps, closing.
1:00 pm	End of FediForum day 3.

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:

Jantien Borsboom (@Digi_tien@mastodon.social, @jantien.eurosky.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Run a session (or several)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Q&a on the open social awards by new_ public, publicspaces and waag futurelab and info on the publicspaces conference

Wants to learn more about:

• How we can join forces from different protocols to shape the future of the open social web

Name withheld:

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Learn what the open social web is all about
• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Run a session (or several)

Manton Reece

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• To hear about what people are doing with the fediverse, atmosphere, and blogging.

William Maggos (@wjmaggos@liberal.city)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

@zzepposs@chaos.social, @FediVariety@mastodon.social

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Run a session (or several)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Digital commons? fediverse as a public interest infrastructure
• Outcomes of our unconference, last month about the fediverse in/for public institutions (https://www.fedivariety.org/noaw-amsterdam)

@hpod16@eupolicy.social

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Learn what the open social web is all about

Name withheld:

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Potential collaborations and funding, hearing about other people’s and initiatives experiences, fediverse for public institutions

Gilles Dutilh (@depemig@social.coop)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Getting input on our research for making the fediverse thrive. (org.basel.social)

ivan minutillo (https://bonfire.cafe/@ivan)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Learn what the open social web is all about
• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Demo your software

Wants to learn more about:

• Governance and community tools

Lars Lipinski (@lars_li@fosstodon.org)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• The human side of interoperability.
• New projects and applications on the open social web.

Mayel de Borniol (@mayel@bonfire.cafe)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Demo your software

Brian Rayburn (@brianrayburn@mastodon.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Name withheld:

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Demo your software

@mcorbettwilson

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Fediverse

Thomas Webb (@thomasjwebb@mastodon.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Jim DeLaHunt (@jdlh@mstdn.ca)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Globally-inclusive fediverse handles

Wants to learn more about:

• Any fediverse activity in languages other than western european, japanese, and korean, and scripts other than latin, japanese, and korean.

Aaron Klemm (@aklemm@mastodon.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Identity
• Self-hosting

Wants to learn more about:

• Identity

Joan Pla (@joanpla@mastodon.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Other

Wants to learn more about:

• Public institutions and civic movements engaging with the social web.

Lucca Jäger

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Marci McCue (@marci@flipboard.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Expanding the fediverse, new products and services for creators, general updates from builders across the open social web.

Manfred Zielinski (@manfredzielinski@mastodon.nl)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Luis Quintanilla

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Run a session (or several)
• Demo your software

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Mycelium - federated ai systems on at proto https://github.com/lqdev/mycelium.
• Bringing an indieweb site onto the fediverse
• Https://lqdev.me/notes/website-now-natively-posts-to-the-fediverse-2026-01-22/

Wants to learn more about:

• New fediverse projects,
• Identity in the fediverse,
• Indieweb and the fediverse
• Posse / pesos

@abosio@fosstodon.org

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Learn what the open social web is all about
• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Paul Fuxjaeger (@samvie@chaos.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Paul Fuxjaeger (@cypherhippie@chaos.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Matthias Pfefferle (@pfefferle@mastodon.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Michael Foster (@michael@newsmast.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Name withheld:

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Jeffrey Campo (@jeffcampo@mastodon.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Learn what the open social web is all about

Wants to learn more about:

• How the fediverse can build antifragility into social media

https://techhub.social/@technically_good

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• The future of decentralization, how to increase appeal to users vs big tech platforms

Melanie Bartos (@melaniebartos@chaos.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Run a session (or several)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Fediverse and (public) institutions: i’d like to run a session on how public institutions can adopt activitypub and the fediverse in practice, based on the introduction of a fediverse instance for mastodin at the university of innsbruck with single sign-on access for staff. the focus is on what it takes to make this work within an institution, especially when bringing a large and diverse group into a decentralised social environment.

@kamihack@mastodon.cr

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

@laescude@mastodon.cr

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Setting out communities of big tech resistance in the global south

Anuj Ahooja (@quillmatiq.com, @quillmatiq@mastodon.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Run a session (or several)
• Demo your software

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Potentially about bridgy fed + bounce client and platform apis if needed

Wants to learn more about:

• Multi-protocol, identity, and new projects

Benjamin Bellamy (@benjaminbellamy@framapiaf.org)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Michal Hron (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mhron/)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Learn what the open social web is all about

Darius Kazemi (@darius@friend.camp)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Raphael Lullis (@raphael@communick.com)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Demo your software

Is thinking about running a session on:

• I am working on “fiber: functional interface for browsing entity relations”, which is a browser extension that uses nothing but the activitypub api and can be used to see and interact with the fediverse. it is already usable as an alternative to mastodon-like application servers and i am on the way to extending it to work as a lemmy-like ui. the idea is to eventually make it possible to use it as a generic browser for any social web application that can use activitypub as the transport layer and json-ld to represent resources.

Wants to learn more about:

• Activitypub api and c2s

Charles Krempeaux (https://mastodon.social/@reiver)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Name withheld:

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Government adoption of ffoss

Zoyander Street (@zoy@merveilles.town)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Video replies and correspondence art

Wants to learn more about:

• Arts and creativity initiatives to draw in audiences and demonstrate use patterns

Jaz-Michael King (@jaz@toot.wales)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Trust & safety projects and initiatives; digital sovereignty issues; regulatory compliance; improving access to social web for broad audiences; funding opportunities for institutions and organisations building and protecting the social web.

Ezra Boeth (@ezraboeth.com)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Digital gardening.
• Why we should think less about openness and more about power (governance/infrastructure).

Wants to learn more about:

• Connecting science and research to open social networks, the feasibility of implementing more democratic governance models in online social spaces

@vgrass@chaos.social

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Matt Tutt (@matttutt.me)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Learn what the open social web is all about
• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Run a session (or several)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Anything against big tech - i am the founder of the no to big tech movement (https://www.notobigtech.org/)

Wants to learn more about:

• Alternatives to big tech

Jeremiah Lee (@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

caroline sinders (@carolinesinders.bsky.social‬)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Learn what the open social web is all about
• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Run a session (or several)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Digital addiction and pro social design

Wants to learn more about:

• Learn more about new types of apps and communities on the open social web! i wanna meet tool makers and find new communities to connect with.

Alexis Bushnell (@alexisbushnell@toot.wales)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Getting more people onboard with fedi and keeping them here.
• What mods can do to welcome and onboard new people.

Tom Brown (@tom@herestomwiththeweather.com)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Intents, standards updates, testing

Name withheld:

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• More activitypub-compatible software

Name withheld:

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Existing or planned education/communication materials about the open social web for working with local institutions/organizations.

Mathilde Sanders (@MathildeS@mastodon.nl)

Wants to learn more about:

• Public (service) social media / business models non profit fediverse

Julia Kamin

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Julian Lam (@julian@activitypub.space)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Run a session (or several)

Is thinking about running a session on:

• Setting up a successful topic-based federating forum without having to find actual users

Ryan Barrett

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

@johannab@cosocial.ca

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

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.

Anthony Zone (@ozoned@btfree.social)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Name withheld:

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

Wants to learn more about:

• Current adoption, market potential, technological streams

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

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people
• Demo your software

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

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Meet and connect with like-minded people

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.

Cagan Mert Islek (@cagan@cmislek.me)

Is coming to FediForum mostly to:

• Run a session (or several)
• Demo your software

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