Moving the
Open Social Web
Forward.
The unconference where the people rebuilding how we best interact online — across every open protocol — meet, compare notes, demo their work, and set the agenda themselves.
FediForum Fall 2026 is now over.
Open protocols, not closed platforms. The Fediverse, Mastodon and ActivityPub. ATmosphere, Bluesky and AtProto. Human connections, not AI bots, nor fake news nor manipulative algorithms. New funding models. New forms of governance. Better trust and safety. Direct relationships to stakeholders and customers. Interoperability across social platforms everywhere, and so much more.
After a decade of stagnation, next-generation social media is breaking out of the closed silos and connecting the world into a global, open social web. It’s a wild world full of opportunity.
FediForum brings together the leading thinkers and doers who build this new Open Social Web.
Good things come to those who wait.
… until the next FediForum · 6–7 October 2026 · Online.
FediForum Fall 2026 is happening now!
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Recordings and session notes from FediForum April 2026 are now available
Speed demos, intro talks to ActivityPub and ATProtocol, a fireside chat, and notes for over 40 unconference sessions
Announcing FediForum Connect
Connecting value-aligned organizations, communities and creators with products and services that make them successful on the Open Social Web
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Check out our recent events, watch our PeerTube channel, or read session summaries organized by topic.
As FediForum is an unconference, the session agendas you see there were created democratically each morning, and then run by FediForum participants themselves.
What’s an unconference?
Good question — and a few others come up a lot too. We keep a running answer for both.
Every FediForum, in full
Each of these opens that event's proceedings: the agenda as the room built it, speed-demo and keynote videos, and notes from every session, written up by the people who were in them.
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Highlights
A sample of what happens at FediForum — introductions to the core protocols, fireside chats, and keynotes from across the open social web.
FediForum April 2026
Previous highlights
Voices
What people say
There’s so much value in the design of FediForum! Not only does it provide an opportunity to hear from people pioneering the open social web, but also a place to discuss ideas and ask important questions. I always leave wishing we had more time together!
FediForum has been a must-attend for many years now. It’s one of the most important events for the fediverse community, writ large.
We’ve been to every one, and we’ve announced and demoed a bunch of our stuff there. Hugely worthwhile!
FediForum is where I first met most of my friends on the Fediverse, and where I work with others who share my passion for building the new Social Web
I’ve been going to Fediforum since the first one. The community is so welcoming and and the organizers are very organized and encouraging of open dialog and debate. I look forward to every Fediforum to reconnect with my Fedi-friends and colleagues.
I’ve been to every FediForum since the first one and I’ve loved every one of them.
At first I had imposter syndrome, but everyone was so welcoming, that feeling soon passed once the conversations started to flow and I learned so much.
At FediForum I first saw Elena Rossini’s brilliant video about the Fediverse and I’ve met such interesting people who I look forward to seeing again at this FediForum.
I appreciate how FediForum opened up to non-techies like myself! The first one I went to I felt very out of my depth and like I wasn’t qualified to be in the room, but more recent ones I have felt more like all skills and backgrounds are valued and welcomed to help move the Fediverse forward.
Attending FediForum accelerates understanding the ActivityPub protocol by exposing the gap between the formal W3C specification and real-world implementation realities. The schedule is built collaboratively each day by attendees rather than dictated by sponsored keynote tracks. This structure is fun and allows people to propose or join specific working sessions to build the future of Open Web Social together.
In the news
Press coverage
- TechCrunch: Bounce introduces a tool to move your Mastodon account to Bluesky
- TechCrunch: Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse
- The Verge: AltStore's alternative iPhone app store is coming to more countries
- The New Stack: Everything Big Starts Small: Building Open Social Web Apps
- The Verge: Mastodon snags Bluesky's starter packs feature and includes the ability to opt out
- The Verge: Meta showed off their Threads product's Fediverse integration for the first time at FediForum — also covered by Engadget, TechCrunch, 9To5Mac, TimesNow
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