mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Moving the Open Social Web forward.
Join us at our next unconference, online?
How does AT Protocol (#ATProto) really work?
Listen to Bluesky head of protocol @dholms.at given at the last FediForum:
The #Fediverse now has its own link-in-bio, with new project FediProfile. Share links, collect badges, and own your online presence – no corporation in the middle.
Maho Pacheco demo'd it last week at #FediForum.
https://spectra.video/w/hBLR8YT3NrX1yEdjezToRh
/cc @mapache@hachyderm.io, @maho.dev
How do you keep out the spammers from registering at your Mastodon instance, but still keep registration open?
At #FediForum, Stefan Hayden demo'd a new tool for helping with that.
FediForum is one of the supporters of the European Social Stack declaration that was published today.
in the cooperative spirit of FediForum, we are glad that so many -- often competing -- organizations are coming together to the common cause of advancing better forms of social media in Europe.
Kudos to many to make this happen, but particularly to @michael@backend.newsmast.org and @bjoernsta@eimsbuettel.social who spearheaded it.
How does ActivityPub really work?
Listen to this presentation by #ActivityPub co-author @evanprodromou given at the last FediForum:
Congratulations to:
Blacksky Algorithms
for winning an Excellence Award as part of the Open Social Awards today.
Next FediForum, the online unconference to move the Open Social Web Forward will be:
October 6-7, 2026, online.
Mark your calendars! And registration is open. More info: http://fediforum.org/2026-10/
Congratulations congratulations congratulations to:
** Newsmast Foundation **
for winning the very first Open Social Award.
Congratulations to:
Sill.social
for winning an Excellence Award as part of the Open Social Awards today.
Next #FediForum: October 6-7, 2026. Online.
Join your peers building a better online future, in an unconference format where everybody can contribute, teach and learn. We can only do this together!
More info and registration: https://fediforum.org
Flohmarkt is federated decentralized classified ad software using ActivityPub. They showed off how you can use other fedi platforms (e.g. Mastodon) to interact with small ads and talk to the seller via direct messages.
Demo by Philip Patsch at the most recent #FediForum.
Missed this spring #FediForum https://fediforum.org?
We will publish video recordings of the speed demos, of the fireside chat, and the protocol presentations on our video accounts at @fediforum@spectra.video (PeerTube) and @fediforum@youtube.com shortly.
The session notes will go up on fediforum.org like previously. In meantime, consider previous notes: they are an incredible repository of knowledge on the Fediverse and the Open Social Web: https://fediforum.org/topics
And congratulations to the honorable mentions:
* Bounce
* Dandelion
* Streamplace
* Leaflet
* Bonfire Network
at today's Open Social Award.
We publish events on our website that are about the Open Social Web, from anywhere on the planet. Not just FediForum events.
To make it easier for you to keep track of them, we now also publish them as iCalendar feed that you can subscribe to in your calendar app.
Check it out at https://fediforum.org/events
And let us know if there are issues, because it's all new and the behaviors for various calendars and browsers on various operating systems are apparently all different.
Thanks for the shout-out by @team and earlier by @fediversereport@mastodon.social :
Bluesky added a new feature today: groups.
We thought we might as well try it out. Join us there?
@zzepposs@chaos.social is coming to #FediForum to run sessions on:
