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[I don’t know whether I’ll write about each day of Fediforum individually… and I expect to be posting less regularly for a week or so, due to other things going on…]

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Today was the first day of the fourth edition of #Fediforum – an unconference that brings together folks who are building, using, advocating, and learning about the Fediverse and the platforms that it comprises.

I went to the first Fediforum back in March 2023; I missed the second one last autumn due to travel; attended the last one this March; and so, this is my third one overall. It has proven to be a great event for catching up with what is going on, what people are building, sharing ideas, and finding new collaborators. It is growing each time, which is excellent to see.

Fediforum is three half-day sessions (previously it has been two half-days; this time they added a Saturday to enable folks who may have found the weekdays less easy, to join in as well). It is not the most convenient time from a European perspective, but also not impossible to get involved – 4pm to 9pm UK time across three days is OK if I’m able to plan and prepare for them. It is an unconference format. Each day starts with a series of 5 minute demos of working code and apps – if folks want to dive deeper onto one of those demos, then the presenters are encouraged to create a session for them during the day. Then there is a chunk of time to collaboratively create the agenda for the day in a Google doc – the day is split into three, hour long sessions, across up to 8 virtual rooms. Each session has an audio/video element, and a collaborative etherpad shared doc for taking notes. At the end of the day, we come back together and summarise the key things from the main sessions.

Here’s a quick summary of interesting things from today:

Right before things kicked off, the Mastodon team announced a new project to explore building a new shared service for the Fediverse – the concept of Fediverse Discovery Providers. I’ll probably talk about this tomorrow, if I can find a slot to schedule a session on it.

We are excited to launch a new project that will help small and medium-sized fediverse servers and their users have better access to search and discovery through the use of pluggable Fediverse Discovery Providers, supported by a grant from @EC_NGI. See our new dedicated website for details:
https://fediscovery.org/
— Mastodon Engineering (@MastodonEngineering) 2024-09-12T14:29:56.317Z

I enjoyed the demos today! We heard from Fedica (a scheduling and cross-platform social media management tool from my old friend Samir and his team); IFTAS, about their new content classification service; the very interesting TrueFans.fm podcasting service; the Lemmy client app Quiblr; and an update from the Threads team.
- I really need to migrate a podcast between hosts, at the moment it is a WordPress site with over 10 years of content, and I’m now torn between Castopod and TrueFans (among other options)… a good problem to have, I guess!

TIL Quiblr, a Lemmy client https://github.com/Technicolor-Dreamcoat/Quiblr #fediverse #fediforum
— Andy Piper (@andypiper@macaw.social) 2024-09-12T15:41:12.506Z

Threads team just announced and launched the ability to send Threads users a link that opens the Fedi sharing options at #Fediforum – so that should make it quicker if you're asking a user over there to share to the rest of us!
— Andy Piper (@andypiper@macaw.social) 2024-09-12T15:42:16.649Z

a group of us had an excellent conversation around creatives and artists and how we can build better platforms to support them in the Fediverse. It was cool to talk about several things that are happening in this space particularly around music (see Bandwagon, RadioFreeFedi, IndieBeat, etc).

Hey #music lovers: The Indie Beat FM is launching tonight, streaming tracks from the Fediverse by indie artists.
Music hosted by our friends at Bandwagon.fm, a place you should check out if you make and/or love music.
https://live.theindiebeat.fm/
#radio
— MizKirsten (@mizkirsten) 2024-09-11T22:55:03.067Z

we discussed the LOLA (Live OnLine Account) portability proposal from the W3C SWICG, which could enable data portability between ActivityPub instances.
there was an interesting session on academics on the Fediverse, which included a reference to this excellent list of instances and folks.

Too many sessions for me to easily choose between them, and I’m looking forward to flipping through the notes from the others! It was really, really good to talk to folks both in the sessions and in the side channel chats, and it is great to see people who are building and using the platforms coming together and sharing their thoughts.

I joked in the chat at the start of the afternoon (my time) that another 6 months have flown past in the Fediverse – and it is so true! There is so much happening – an exciting time to be learning and helping to shape the platforms that are emerging.

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