This evening is the Open Social Awards, a worthy #FediForumFriday shout out, especially as #FediForum's very own @j12t is one of the judges! Along with some other familar FediForum faces like @laurenshof and @melaniebartos .

I intend to be hanging around right here to catch the awards results as they get posted so I can celebrate the awesome people and work they're doing!
https://conference.publicspaces.net/en/award

Open Social Awards - PublicSpaces Conference

New_ Public, PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab are launching the Open Social Awards for projects for open social media, shaping the future of social media. Apply by May 1st!

It's #FediForumFriday- your reminder to check in with projects you're excited about, ask for or offer help, or just chat with the folks you met and refresh the joy and motivation you felt at #FediForum.
It's #FediForumFriday- your reminder to check in with projects you're excited about, ask for or offer help, or just chat with the folks you met and refresh the joy and motivation you felt at #FediForum.
@courtney Consider running an unconference session on your project @NotifyBot at #FediForum in October.

Looks like @fediforum #8 is already in the Calendar! I've signed up. October 6-7, 2026. Catch you there?

#fediforum

I just registered for #FediForum in October.

https://fediforum.org

Now that I've got the @NotifyBot project, I guess that makes me a Mastodon developer.

The event is online and cheap. Seems like it might be an opportunity to learn a bit more about the Fedi ecosystem.

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FediForum: moving the Open Social Web forward

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Flohmarkt is federated decentralized classified ad software using ActivityPub. They showed off how you can use other fedi platforms (e.g. Mastodon) to interact with small ads and talk to the seller via direct messages. Demo by Philip Patsch at the most recent #FediForum. 1/2

Flohmarkt is federated decentralized classified ad software using ActivityPub. They showed off how you can use other fedi platforms (e.g. Mastodon) to interact with small ads and talk to the seller via direct messages.

Demo by Philip Patsch at the most recent #FediForum.

https://spectra.video/w/5GXnaWQ4BByS55J8hM7EpB

/cc @Profpatsch

FediForum Demo: Flohmarkt: federated decentralized classified ad software using ActivityPub

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Bonfire Mosaic is co-designing federated groups and publisher tools with Jacobin DE & Totnes Pulse.They showed off federated groups and new publisher tools, including embeddable federated comment threads for blogs and CMS sites, at the most recent #FediForum. 1/2