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What if, as we are building out the open social web, we prioritized increasing the joy people can feel when interacting with other people online? Like Christine proposed in her keynote! https://spectra.video/w/aQgZJDLam35wUcBd23yU2t?start=0s

#FediForumFriday

Watch Christine Lemmer-Webber present on Fun, the Fediverse, and Spritely, a positive future for an era of crisis, in her keynote at FediForum June 2025.

PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/aQgZJDLam35wUcBd23yU2t
YouTube: https://youtu.be/jSOk8XQuqms

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/cc @cwebber, @dustyweb.bsky.social

Watch Cory Doctorow outline how to de-enshittify technology and more in his keynote at FediForum June 2025.

PeerTube: https://spectra.video/w/7wEFKqfZSPWZyFtbBHRUCs
YouTube: https://youtu.be/7_Gs1t0qe78

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/cc @pluralistic

@blog We were almost too late for #fediforumfriday, but we managed to get the keynote recordings out today: https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/114678236254903208

The recordings of the keynotes, and the movie premiere, from FediForum June 2025 are now online.

You can find them from https://fediforum.org/, our PeerTube https://spectra.video/@fediforum and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlI78hhgYh_oSg8Wws2m66YuRObWa7lJf channels.

#FediForum #FediForumFriday

Did you join us at this most recent #FediForum?

Connect with the people you met this FediForum by using #FediForumAttendee in a post sharing your experience.

Congratulations to our friends at A New Social who launched their new Bounce tool today at #FediForum, and got a nice writeup on Techcrunch!

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/introducing-bounce-a-tool-to-move-your-follwing-between-bluesky-and-mastodon/

We asked people signing up for #FediForum why they are coming.

The biggest reason, by far: to connect with other, like-minded people.

Second: learning about the Open Social Web.

Followed by demoing software, telling others about their projects, and running sessions.

Here are the topics that people registering have said they want to discuss this FediForum.

The very technical:
* Digital identity
* Better APIs
* AI-assisted communications and coordination
* Surveillance-avoidance, better privacy
* evolving ActivityPub and ATProto, standards
* Projects beyond microblogging
* Semantic web, richer data types

Promotion, advocacy, growing the Open Social Web
* Greater interoperability
* In-person meetups
* Moving civil and civic society away from Big Tech

* Interoperability by Big Tech
* Adoption by small businesses
* Funding then Open Social Web
* Broaden and advance the Fediverse
* Local journalism
* Creating a community in West Africa.

Curation, and trust & safety
* Self-curation
* Knowledge creation and management
* Content moderation
* Online safety

Public good:
* Pathways to a better web for a better world (wow!)
* Adoption, policies for public infrastructure in Europe

And that's just what they put into the form!

If you were registered for the canceled April 2025 FediForum and have not asked for a refund, you are automatically registered for FediForum this week Thu-Sat, and will get an invite to our online venue before the (optional) Meet & Greet on Wednesday.

If you are registered for FediForum Thu-Sat this week, you can also (optionally) join us for a "Meet & Greet", the day before at 10:00 pacific, to check your equipment, get a tour of the online venue, or say Hi!

Here's the schedule: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/

Invite e-mails coming soon.

Added: expected session topics for FediForum June 5-7.

What a long list! Check it out: https://fediforum.org/2025-06/

Something important not on the list? Come to FediForum, and announce a session on that subject during agenda making in the morning! Unconferences for the win!

What kinds of subjects are being discussed at FediForum?

Wonder no more: we (tried to) categorize sessions from past FediForum, and here is the full list:

https://fediforum.org/topics/

Join us next week and make the list even longer! :-) Lots to discuss on the open social web!

https://fediforum.org

Again we have a full roster of software speed demos at FediForum next week, and even a waiting list!

Several "first-evers" on the Open Social Web have been shown at past FediForums, and it looks like there will be several more next week!

Check past recordings and register: https://fediforum.org

What is the future of social media? Is there a future? Could it be better than it is today? Anybody working on this?

Come join us next week at FediForum and find out! Or even better: collaborate with your peers to make a better future!

More info and registration: https://fediforum.org

So many great demos, so little time.

We'll do demos Thursday morning (after the 1st keynote) and first thing Saturday morning. And a special surprise after the Friday keynote.

So much great work in the Open Social Web, it's becoming impossible to show it all.

Join us? https://fediforum.org

Uncertain whether #FediForum is for you? Or how to get prepared? Or how to run a session?

Come to our office hours Tuesday, May 27, 10:00am pacific (19:00 central Europe) to ask whatever question might have.

Sign-up: https://apps.fediforum.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/s/kaDkD38YxL4cQgNmYWPBeYo9

It's just three weeks to FediForum June 5-7! Join us for 3 half-days of discussions, presentations, software demos and plotting next steps with your fellow enthusiasts for a better and more open social web.

And a couple of special other things 😀. Stay tuned.

https://fediforum.org

You asked, we listened. FediForum June 5-7 will have keynotes from amazing people:

Christine Lemmer-Webber, co-author of the ActivityPub standard and long-term innovator on the federated social web,

Ian Forrester, who helped with bringing Mastodon to the BBC and advocates for a public service internet, and

Cory Doctorow, long-term digital rights activist, journalist and sci-fi author. (Read some of his novels to see what happens if we don't get this right!)

Join us? https://fediforum.org