FediForum

Jayne Samuel-Walker (@TCMuffin@toot.wales) wants to learn about & is thinking about running a session on:

Growing the fediverse at a rate which is sustainable in the long term.

At FediForum it's very acceptable for people, even encouraged to run sessions asking questions they don't have answer to!

Cagan Mert Islek (@cagan@cmislek.me) is thinking about running sessions on:

* Getting personal blogs to replace social media pages (providers concept)
* Creating a federated alternative to streaming services

at the upcoming FediForum. Join us? https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

We are again asking people at registration time what they want to discuss about the open social web at the next #FediForum. But this time, we are distinguishing between sessions they want to lead, and things they want to learn. The differences are interesting already!

https://fediforum.org/2026-04/#topics

What topics will be discussed at the next FediForum, April 28-30?

We are only find out, too! When people register for FediForum, we ask them what sessions they are planning of running, or wishing to go to. And the first answers are beginning to trickle in. Check them out!

https://fediforum.org/2026-04/#topics

Where do you meet the people who move the Open Social Web forward? All without traveling? At #FediForum of course!

Join us April 28-30, 2026, online, scheduled so people anywhere from central Europe and Africa to the Americas can participate without losing too much sleep.

https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

Registration for the next #FediForum is now open.

Come join us and your peers from around the world, learning, teaching, debating, and making plans for how to move the Open Social Web Forward.

April 28-30, 2026, online.

More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/2026-04/

The session notes from our un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web are online now, too. Happy reading! Also, look at the submitted position statements if you haven't already, many of them are quite interesting (linked from there)

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/notes/

A follow-up e-mail to attendees of our un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web went out a few hours ago. It contains a link to a questionnaire where you can give us some feedback. We'd love to hear your thoughts on how to make future FediForum events even more successful.

I guess we are all set for tomorrow's un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web.

It's a bit of experiment. Un-conferences are bad enough :-) and now we are doing an un-workshop! We'll try and marry the high-intensity peer conversations of an unconference with the well-thought-out proposals of a workshop. We need both to make tangible progress on plans for how to grow. In theory, that should work out just fine. In practice: we'll find out!
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Last chance to register for Monday's un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web. For logistical reasons, we have to end registration 24 hours before the event starts.

But right now it's still open, so come join us on Monday! https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web

A number of additional submissions on how people think we should grow the Open Social Web have been added: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/submissions/

You can still join us on Monday, online! Registration will remain open until 24 hours before the un-workshop starts.

Over 40 position statements is a lot to read. So we tried to create a summary for what the community thinks how to grow the Open Social Web: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/summary/

But reading the actual submissions is probably more interesting: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/submissions/

Join us on Monday? https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

It's just one week until our un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web!

The event page has been updated. Now we have the basic agenda, plus the submissions from attendees, and an attempt to summarize them.

Now also with Techdirt logo (as @j12t@j12t.social and @masnick.com are co-organizing)

Later today we'll e-mail an update to registered attendees.

There is still time to register, it's online, so it's easy to participate!

More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

If you have not registered / submitted yet for our online un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web on March 2, you are still welcome to do so until the day before it starts. Any submission might not get seen by as many people, but certainly we'd love to have you attend.

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers

We received about forty submissions for the upcoming #FediForum unworkshop on "Growing the Open Social Web" by Monday's deadline. That means submissions from about half of the people who have registered so far, and should make for a great conversation!

Happy reading! https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers

Today's the deadline for the position statements for the Growing the Open Social Web workshop!

Check out (most) of what's been submitted so far: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers

About 1 of =3 of attendees registered so far have sent something: everybody else, this is your chance to have yourself heard!

Anthony Zone (@ozoned) has submitted this contribution to our upcoming Growing the Open Social Web workshop:

Be friendly. Be supportive. Share. Build communities. Donate to developers. Donate to admins. Create content. Whether that’s trying different software and showing people, creating docs, creating videos, etc. Make this your OWN that you want to share. Join communities of open social web such as developer communities.

The deadline for submission statements for the upcoming un-workshop on

Growing the Open Social Web

is coming up in four days, just after the weekend. A great time to write something amazing up that will help the entire community move forward.

More info and registration: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

Norm MacLennan (@nromdotcom.cloud) put his position paper for the upcoming Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop on his blog:

https://my.badtake.space/growing-the-open-social-web/

Mark your calendars! The next twice-yearly online FediForum unconference will take place April 28-30, 2026.

This is not to be confused with, and in addition to the special un-workshop we will be convening March 2 that focuses only on Growing the Open Social Web.

Registration is open for the un-workshop on March 2, but not yet for the unconference April 28-30, so you won't register for the wrong event :-) Of course, we'd love to have you for both events. Ahem, un-events😀!

Tim Bray (@timbray@cosocial.ca) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says:

My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate

How do we Grow the Open Social Web? Good question! But lots of people have good ideas, and many of them are coming to our online un-workshop on this, March 2.

Some of them are already listed on our event page, with the ideas they submitted.

Sounds interesting? Join us! https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers

Jayne Samuel-Walker (@TCMuffin@toot.wales) thinks this post best describes they are trying to do with their efforts on the Open Social Web:

@seabass@social.seabass.systems

From their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop coming up March 2, online.

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

Elisabeth McDonnell suggests it would be good to have a more in-depth, strategic analysis of where we’re falling short from a growth and engagement perspective. From their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop .

Join us March 2?

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

Larissa Baca (@babaklar@hcommons.social) thinks we can best grow the Open Social Web by continuing to talk about how it benefits the community and how it is not run by tech giants who don’t care about people. For their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2:

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers

Klaudia Zotzmann-Koch thinks the Open Social Web would get adopted more broadly used if universities, cities, local and federal governments and public broadcasting media etc had accounts. From her submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2.

More: https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

The 1st FediForum un-workshop is a month from today! Are you registered yet?

In this un-workshop, we'll try to figure out together what the best strategies and tactics are to grow the Open Social Web, based on short position statements that people submit when registering.

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

Greetings to #FOSDEM in Brussels! It sounds like there will be a full track on the topic of the #socialweb tomorrow with lots of interesting presentations! Good luck to all the presenters, and have a great time discussing the #fediverse.

#fediforumfriday

The first position statements for our upcoming un-workshop on Growing the Open Social Web are in. We have added them to https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers

Agree? Disagree? Have something to add? Submit your own position statement as part of your registration!

This un-workshop will focus on what *You* think.

In the Fediverse track at SFSCon, André Menrath spoke about:

Interoperability of Events in the Fediverse: Status Quo and Vision

https://fediforum.org/2025-11-sfscon/

#fediforum #sfscon #fediverse #socialweb