#mozfest — Public Fediverse posts

#MozFest 2026 Call for Proposals is now open until May 24th.
We're rethinking what the internet can look like and if you have ideas and projects, now is the time to pitch them:
https://appv2.sessionboard.com/submit/mozfest-2026/84f42512-cfc7-421a-9ded-00bfb65cf4d4

As folks know, I'm currently the R&D Lead at @mozilladatacollective - and if you regularly search for #data and #datasets as part of your role, we'd really like your help in some #UX #research in dataset discovery.

What's in it for you? A chance to score a free ticket to the 2026 @mozilla Festival #MozFest in beautiful Barcelona, Spain this November, 2026.

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSixY3a81-Cvjl0C__Jpdaub8Io2aKgq3Ti4EWwcjqrkTA9Q/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=112374893869353514952

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@mozilla.org 's #MozFest is taking place in Barcelona in 2026 and 2027 too, after @[email protected] and Mozilla signed a MoU. Also, Barcelona Open Tech Week is happening again in October 2026!

Privacy isn’t a purely technical issue. I got to speak on the Main Stage at #MozFest 2025, on “Unlearning Privacy” with Signal’s Ubdhav Tiwari. Moderated by the wonderful Lauren Hendry Parsons from Mozilla.

@kumarvibe Amazing! I also just returned from Barcelona! #mozfest

#MozFest 2025 has wrapped up after three days of creative discussions and collaboration around a better internet for everyone and open-source AI.

Grateful to everyone who joined us and to the organizers for an incredible experience.

See you next year!

Interesting perspectives and insights shared by folks who created “love matters” around how ads on female pleasure, female hygiene/health and similar things were either blocked or outright rejected on Meta platforms. #mozfest #SocialCensorship #DigitalAds

Interesting perspectives and insights shared by folks who created “love matters” around how ads on female pleasure, female hygiene/health and similar things were either blocked or outright rejected on Meta platforms. #mozfest #SocialCensorship #DigitalAds

Interesting perspectives and insights shared by folks who created “love matters” around how ads on female pleasure, female hygiene/health and similar things were either blocked or outright rejected on Meta platforms. #mozfest #SocialCensorship #DigitalAds

Interesting perspectives and insights shared by folks who created “love matters” around how ads on female pleasure, female hygiene/health and similar things were either blocked or outright rejected on Meta platforms. #mozfest #SocialCensorship #DigitalAds

Interesting perspectives and insights shared by folks who created “love matters” around how ads on female pleasure, female hygiene/health and similar things were either blocked or outright rejected on Meta platforms. #mozfest #SocialCensorship #DigitalAds

I’ll unfortunately add though that the signaling doesn’t seem to translate to practice the way it used to. People presenting on stage needed to be called out for dismissive “he, she, whatever” comments or showing videos about rewiring your brain with white people only. #mozfest

For fucks sake. @julie-brill.bsky.social managed to completely screw up @audreyt.org’s pronouns while introducing them and then dismissed it by saying “whatever”. @mozilla.org why have someone moderate a #mozfest panel on the main stage who can’t get basic pronouns of trans panelists right?

Does anyone know why the session «Prototyping anti-fascist community-led AI governance» has disappeared from the #MozFest schedule?

#MozFest 2025 🎉

Creators and communities are gathering to explore how technology can better serve people.

@peteski22, Javier, and Mario from Mozilla.ai are attending, and our CEO John is co-hosting “Context is All You Need: The Collective Land Grab Reshaping the Internet.”

🔗 https://schedule.mozillafestival.org/session/230

Things #Mozfest does really well:
* pronouns stickers
* lanyards to signal that you don’t want to be photographed
* plenty of time and space to mingle and network
* easy discovery of the unexpected
* content mixed with art

What a shot from the near past @[email protected] at #Mozfest #mozfest2025

Talking unlearning

Day two of #MozFest starts with the Mozilla Foundation's Bourree Lam interviewing the Onion's @bencollins.bsky.social. He brags that the Onion is now the 11th biggest print paper in the U.S. "Our goal next year is to beat the Washington Post... and they're making it pretty easy." [Audience LOLs.]

Som-hi! #mozfest

My First #Mozfest! Very impressed so far!
And #Barcelona always so great. Has been worth the long train journey from Geneva.

Decided on short notice to attend #MozFest, that’s happening this weekend, in the hope to meet likeminded people. If you’re here in Barcelona and want to catch up, hit me up here or on Signal.

The Executive Director of The Carpentries @drkariljordan is attending the Mozilla Festival 2025 @mozilla #MozFest from 7-9 November in Barcelona, Spain - we encourage you to connect with her for an opportunity to chat about sponsorship and how you can support our work.

The @mozilla team has done a spectacular job for MozFest 2025. What a stunning setting to envision a technological future that empowers humans and is based on shared values. If you‘re also in Barcelona and would like to chat about Open Data and Open Source AI send me a DM, I‘m here until Monday! #mozfest #mozfest2025 #mozillafestival #mozilla #opensource #ai

#mozfest #mozfest25 #ai

Fantastic to catch the tail end of this. @ruha9.bsky.social truly is a light in our dark times. #MozFest

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jxrrsbtaptoynkhm2tdvxohg/post/3m4ztda62hc2v

Acaba de mencionar Ruha Benjamin aquí en la apertura del #MozFest a «the Spanish explaining 'your cloud is drying my river"». cc @tunubesecamirio. 😉

#Mozfest
Goes big in #barcelona

Getting ready for a weekend of unlearning together! 🦊🐼
#mozfest #unlearn #reimagine

Getting ready for a weekend of unlearning together! 🦊🐼
#mozfest #unlearn #reimagine

Getting ready for a weekend of unlearning together! 🦊🐼
#mozfest #unlearn #reimagine

Getting ready for a weekend of unlearning together! 🦊🐼
#mozfest #unlearn #reimagine

Getting ready for a weekend of unlearning together! 🦊🐼
#mozfest #unlearn #reimagine

Talking about the power of the Fediverse
https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

If I wasn't at #Mozfest @mozilla this year...
https://www.mozillafestival.org/

I would be at #sfscon this year, which is hosting something like a #fediforum with a strong European focus (#fediforumeurope)
https://www.sfscon.it/tracks/fediverse-track-2025/

Don't forget #fediforum is back for October too
https://fediforum.org/

Interested in the #fediforum especially the notion of a #fediforumeurope ?
Well your dreams have been answered!
https://fediforum.org/news/2025-07-09-fediforum-partners-with-sfscon-november-2025-bolzano/
Shame its at the same weekend as @mozilla #mozfest

#RankingDigitalRights’ companies evaluations for #BigTech and Telco giants being, now at #MozFest.

#RankingDigitalRights’ companies evaluations for #BigTech and Telco giants being, now at #MozFest.

#RankingDigitalRights’ companies evaluations for #BigTech and Telco giants being, now at #MozFest.

#RankingDigitalRights’ companies evaluations for #BigTech and Telco giants being, now at #MozFest.

#RankingDigitalRights’ companies evaluations for #BigTech and Telco giants being, now at #MozFest.

Looking at the paths out of the current mess

We need an effective way of communicating that all value on the #fedivers is cultural, the tech itself is a product of this #openweb culture. The #activertypub speck is an accident of this culture not being swamped become the #mainstreaming was not interested at the time

We have an increasing number of funders pouring money down the drain in #fedivers tech, when the source of the value #openweb culture that created this new “commons” is swamped by the #mainstreaming agenda.

This #fediforum thing is going to be a hardcore invisible clash of cultures, all the #fashernitas who stood back from the #ActivertyPub push for the last 5 years are now flooding in, as are refugees from the encryptions mess. The language might be #fedvers BUT most of the people will not be. Let’s try and create focus, small steps.

#Mozfest Is on if you want to see posers, #fashernitas and general #NGO pointless. I did sign up but when the time came to log in I could not be bothered. I do use the browser, though.

We do need to express contempt for what a lot of the assumptions and agenda (often unspoken) our #NGO and #fashernitas crew push. Yes, it’s crap and pointless, so please say this, in most cases the “emperor’s” are not wearing any clothes. Express yourself, it’s needed.

The is going to be an increasing mix of #mainstreming people moving back to the #openweb we need much better tools and process to deal with the mess they bring with them as well as our own mess we have here. The is going to be a lot of prat’ish behaviour from both inside our #openweb movement and outside from the #dotcons we need a way to mediate this… as it’s obviously damage dressed up in #NGO clothing.

The problem with this negative circle is that it is self reinforcing, the prats, don’t like being pointed at as prats, and in reaction they dig deeper into prat’ish behaver. This damage is not helpful, we need fresh thinking, what do we do when “our” people act as prats. Ideas please?

The is a solution to this, the #OGB which mediates prat’ish behaver by democracy https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/openwebgovernancebody​

What would it look like if algorithms are personalised for a group identity?
Great inspiration from Kwan Suppaiboonsuk at today's #ai4media Speculative Design Workshop we're hosting at #MozFest House

#Mozfest Is on if you want to see posers, #fashernitas and general #NGO pointless. I did sign up but when the time came to login I could not be bothered. I do use the browser though.

Anyone finds anything #openweb useful I should catch up on?

If you are at #MozFest and have yet to check out @gunnardejong and @Phivk's #EmergentEncounters Garden and Greenhouse in #SpatialChat, I encourage you to do so. It is exactly the #ABitOfKindness that your body and mind will thank you for.

Oh, and be sure to turn up the volume on the #Nature #soundscape.

In #love with the #MozFest 'Nature Sounds + Guided Rest Meditation' #SpatialChat space and #soundscape, thanks to Natalie Matias. It is exactly the #ABitOfKindness that my body needed this morning.

#relaxation #mindfulness

Gotta love this #ABitOfKindness from #Interledger. They have extended their application deadline for the #FutureMoney #grant, to give those attending #MozFest this week, along with other #artists (of all forms) 📽 🎭 🎶 🎨 more time to apply! The deadline is now Monday, April 3 at 11:59 pm (EST).

https://community.interledger.org/interledger/futuremoney-application-deadline-extended-2gil

#StoryToGo #ArtsGrant

@CarbonWriter Yeah, I've long been impressed with #MozFest and the community around it. #ForwardThinking with a focus on #SocialGood. Glad you had a great first day. Sorry I missed your session.

#ABitOfKindness today from #Interledger:

“We are once again proud to help sponsor #Mozilla to run #MozFest! It kicks off today (March 20th) & runs to March 24th. As a sponsor, we have pre-paid tickets for our community, so register & participate! It is pay as you want, so $0 is fine, although also feel free to help support the festival if you like.”

https://community.interledger.org/interledger/mozfest-2023-activism-whistleblowers-and-the-collective-power-of-people-4joh

#internethealth

#MozFest Join the #MozillaFestival (March 20-24) and explore topics such as #datasecurity, #digital communities, #artificialintelligence, women's rights and #disinformation with @eff, @edri,@FabRider, @internetfreedom, @globalvoices and many more: https://www.mozillafestival.org/en/ @mozilla

#MozFest Participe en el #MozillaFestival (20-24 marzo) y explora temas como #seguridad de datos, comunidades #digitales, #inteligenciaartificial, derechos de #mujeres y #desinformación con @sursiendo, @tedicpy, @derechosdigital y muchxs más: https://foundation.mozilla.org/es/blog/here-are-the-sessions-that-will-be-speaking-spanish-at-mozfest-2023/ @mozilla

RT @turkopticon

It's time to recognize the challenges we face, take into account the autonomy & well-being of those working on #MTurk & create solutions that ensure the fairest treatment of Turkers worldwide.

Next Wednesday @ #Mozfest
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