Community & culture (64)
April 2026
- Advice for Code to Take Census of Fediverse Handles
- Embedded Comments & Groups in Bonfire and in the Fediverse
- Intro to the Open Social Web
- Q&A Open Social Awards and PublicSpaces conference & Bazaar
- Small is Beautiful (Smaller Focused Group Discussions on Fediverse)
- Tools for Collective Sense-Making
- Trust Commons, or: What Would We Build Without Digital Identities?
October 2025
- Anchoring Our Work in Real Community Needs
- Connectivity Builder for Guided Tours, Building Follow List, Topical Discussion, Connecting with a Community
- Digital Sovereignty in Academic Organizations and the Role of the Fediverse
- First Person Project: Self-Sovereign Identity, Webs of Trust Discussion
- FOSDEM 2026
- Globally-inclusive Fediverse Handles (i.e. non-ASCII)
- How Can We Make the Fediverse a Safe Space for BIPOC... Again?
- How Do We Grow the Open Social Web and How Can FediForum Best Help?
- LinkedOut
- Making the Fediverse an Attractive and Engaging Space for People who aren't Geeks
- OnlyFed: Empowering Digital Sexworkers in the Fediverse
- Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism
- Scratching the Epidemic of Loneliness Using the Fediverse? Aka The Bristol Channel + Leaving/Joining parties with Media Revolution
- Two Years Since Oct 7 on the Fediverse
- What Does a Federated Future Look Like?
June 2025
- Ensuring Quality Remains Consistent (i.e. "Non-Enshittification")
- FediForum Strategy: How Can FediForum Work Even Better For You?
- More Than "Moderation": Leveraging Community Connectors and Building Effective Third Places
- Moving Slow and Moving Collectively: Against Performativity on the Fediverse
- Organizing, Mutual Aid, and Activism
- Platforms For Young People in the Fediverse
- Presenting the Fediverse to Regular Folks Who Want to Quit Meta and X
- Resisting Surveillance Capitalism, On and Off the Fediverse
- Setting Up a Safe and Fun Social Network for a School Class
- Threadiverse: Forums, Link Aggregators, and More!
- Welcoming New Folks to Fedi and Bringing Small Communities to Fedi
- What Will It Take to Implement Cory's Vision?
September 2024
- ActivityStreams Types and Protocols for Events, Schedules, Calendars for Meetings, Conferences, and Unconferences
- Building Communities in the Fediverse: Channel.org & Patchwork
- Content Discovery and the Chicken and Egg Problem (Workshop)
- Decentralized Change Making: Harnessing the Fediverse for Political and Civic Organizing
- Democracy in the Fediverse
- Fedica Q&A and Full Demo
- Learn How to Use Friendica
- Marketing & Messaging for 'Open Social Web' / the Fediverse (PR for the Layperson)
- The Social/Political/Economic Approach to Essence of the Fediverse and Decentralization
- Unwritten Rules of Fediverse Development: What Do We Need to Know?
March 2024
- Attention Democracy
- Bringing groups to Mastodon (private or public groups)
- Empowering creatives in the Fediverse
- Fediverse Developer Network / fedidevs: building a resource for developers
- Happiness in the Fediverse
- I started an instance for my IRL friends and it worked. Ask me anything!
- Marketing messaging / content creation to advocate for Fediverse
- Politics of Threads joining the Fediverse and surveillance capitalism
- Private vs. public communities on Fediverse: features, onboarding, etc
- The Threadverse - Lemmy, Kbin, PieFed
September 2023
- Session: Blocklists from a social science perspective; tension field between federation and safe spaces
- Session: From Fediverse to the Pluriverse of the Future
- Session: How can white people and guys improve the race and gender situation in the Fediverse?
- Session: Implications of TikTok for the Fediverse
- Session: Plugin architecture / interoperability / compositing ecosystem for Fediverse communities
- Session: Private groups on the Fediverse (limited access, self moderated, like Facebook private groups)
- Session: Server governance