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We’re still alive, just kind of on a hiatus for the moment. We want to get things going again soon, what cool developments have you seen happening in the #Fediverse recently?

FediCon is a new #Fediverse conference in Vancouver, Canada, taking place on August 1st and 2nd, 2025. So far, there’s an impressive lineup of attendees and speakers!

Sean Tilley and Damon Outlaw are making an effort to get to Canada, and we hope to host an IRL panel there!

For more information, check out the FediCon site: https://fedicon.ca/

Saskia Welch from Newsmast joins us to talk about last week’s FediForum event, and we discuss some of the big themes people were talking about!

Welcome back! We’re here to talk about all things happening at FediForum for the next three days. Look at the space below to see our updates!

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The Social Web Foundation (@swf) recently launched places.pub, a service that ties OpenStreetMap location data into ActivityPub vocabulary. Maybe this could be used as a building block for a federated FourSquare, or event locations?

places.pub

Fireside Fedi Interviews Dansup!

The Fireside Fedi podcast beat us to the punch in interviewing the creator of Pixelfed and Loops. @dansup has an impressive portfolio of Fediverse apps, and it’s interesting to hear about the experiences that brought him to where he is today.

In the face of public backlash, a Fediverse developer is forced to shut down a hobby project after people misunderstood what it did.

https://wedistribute.org/2025/02/fedionfire-shutdown/

A popular open source software for forums marks their 4.0 release with ActivityPub support, bringing their message boards to the network.

https://wedistribute.org/2025/01/nodebb-officially-joins-fediverse/

Flipboard has unleashed Surf, a new kind of social app that combines a Feed Reader with a Feed Builder, with Social Interactions sprinkled in.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/12/surf-social-browser/

Loops is a brand new Fediverse platform for short-form video. This guide covers some of the things we do with making Loops Videos.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/12/make-loops-video/

This is our second microblogging test for the #Fediverse from #WordPress. Some things might still come up looking funky, we’re currently exploring how to make content look and feel as native as possible.

https://wedistribute.org/note/12189/

That may have been caused by our caching, we’re still trying to balance that out. You should be able to access it now.

Bluesky’s Public Benefit Corporation expands its roster by bringing in the author of “Protocols, Not Platforms” to help take them to the next level.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/mike-masnick-joins-bluesky/

It’s now possible for WordPress blogs to integrate with the rest of the Fediverse. Here’s some tips and tricks on how to get started.

https://wedistribute.org/2023/09/connect-wordpress-to-the-fediverse/