Next FediForum: 6–7 October 2026
Registration is open. Propose sessions. Suggest cool demos.Registration is open. Propose sessions. Suggest cool demos. FediForum Fall 2026 is now over
The next FediForum online unconference will take place:
- 6–7 October 2026, online
- 15:00 to 20:00 UTC — that is 8am to 1pm US Pacific and 17:00 to 22:00 Central European — so people from many time zones can participate.
As always, most of FediForum will be an unconference. That means that you, the attendee, will help determine what subjects are discussed. So bring your session ideas! You can mention some during registration, but you can change your mind until the very morning of FediForum when we together make the agenda.
We will also again see speed demos of cool Open Social Web software using open protocols such as ActivityPub and ATProtocol. If you have a suggestion who we should invite to demo, please let us know.
And there will be time for one keynote. To be announced.
Here are some reasons why you might want to come to this FediForum:
You’ve heard about the Fediverse or the ATmosphere or the Open Social Web, are intrigued, and would like to learn more. At FediForum, you certainly will!
You want to meet people who have moved from the closed commercial social media platforms onto the Open Social Web, and love it! Lots of people like this at FediForum, and the unconference format makes it possible to have good conversations with them.
You are thinking of, or are already developing software that supports any of these open social standard protocols. You want to connect to others who do. At FediForum, you can meet and engage with plenty of other developers.
You like to hang out with people who actually want to make a positive difference in the world with technology. Not just money. They exist! And at FediForum you can meet many of them. And make friends.
So many things are changing. Age verification. Social media bans for minors. The press is now talking about “Big Social = Big Tobacco”. How do we participate in this discussion and steer it in a better direction?
And many more! Join us in October, we again have tickets for all wallet sizes, starting at almost free.
Attendee-Proposed Topics
When people register for FediForum, we ask them which topics they’d like to discuss. Here is some of what they said we could publish:
- Tom Brown (@tom@herestomwiththeweather.com)
- Is coming to FediForum mostly to:
- Meet and connect with like-minded people
- Wants to learn more about:
- Interoperability
- Julia Kamin
- Is coming to FediForum mostly to:
- Meet and connect with like-minded people
- Ashley Young (@flwrstems.bsky.social)
- Is coming to FediForum mostly to:
- Meet and connect with like-minded people
- Tyler Fisher (@tylerjfisher.com, @tylrfishr@social.tylerjfisher.com)
- Is coming to FediForum mostly to:
- Meet and connect with like-minded people
- Demo your software
- Is thinking about running a session on:
- Would love to demo sill!
- Wants to learn more about:
- Atproto/activitypub bridging, healthy social media experiences
- @johannab@cosocial.ca
- Is thinking about running a session on:
- I will consider continuation of the community-implementation or moderation/trust&safety networking sessions that i’ve proposed in the past, if there’s interest and room.
- Wants to learn more about:
- Looking to catch up on the latest innovations outside of the big few (amazing! but we already know those ones) open social platforms.
- Ben Werdmuller (https://werd.social/@ben, https://bsky.app/profile/werd.io)
- Is coming to FediForum mostly to:
- Meet and connect with like-minded people
- Run a session (or several)
- Other
- Is thinking about running a session on:
- The open social web for journalism: how communities can build trust and loyalty
- Seth Goldstein (@phillycodehound@indieweb.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)
- Demo your software
- Is thinking about running a session on:
- Fedideck the tweetdeck for the open web
- Wants to learn more about:
- All things open web
- Courtney Rosenthal (@courtney@pdx.social)
- Is coming to FediForum mostly to:
- Meet and connect with like-minded people
- Other
- Wants to learn more about:
- Mastodon apis
- 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 and maintaining membership of, and engagement with, the fediverse
- Wants to learn more about:
- Growing and maintaining membership of, and engagement with, the fediverse