A quick walk through Eurosky account creation and migration for existing accounts and an overview of future features.

Speed demo by Sherif Elsayed-Ali (@sherif.eurosky.social) at FediForum April 2026.

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

We're demoing some recent feature additions and UX improvements introduced to Mastodon 4.5 and 4.6, as well as the rationale behind many of these changes.

Speed demo by Imani Joy, Head of Design (@[email protected]) at FediForum April 2026.

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

tags.pub is a global hashtag server for the Fediverse. You can follow an account like @[email protected] and it will boost all the content tagged #example from across the Fediverse.

Speed demo by Evan Prodromou (@[email protected]) at FediForum April 2026.

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

Kim, a member of the European Parliament for the Dutch Groenlinks-PvdA party, co-wrote legislation that limits the influence of major tech companies and is focused on digital affairs and LGBTQIA+ rights. In conversation with Johannes Ernst.

By Daniel Holmgren, head of protocol at Bluesky PBC.

AT Protocol (atproto) is the open protocol powering Bluesky and the emerging Atmosphere. This talk gives a high-level overview of atproto's approach to decentralized networking, including the data model, identity, the firehose, the lexicon schema system, and how these pieces work together to facilitate large-scale open social applications.

Out and about foraging for nettles to make nettle fertiliser; then went on a detour to forage some stuffs.

PS - shout out to the lady who showed me where the garlic flowers were!

By Evan Prodromou, Social Web Foundation and editor of the ActivityPub standard.

One of the best bluffers in the field of distributed social networks gives you just enough knowledge about ActivityPub to sound smarter than everyone around you. In this talk, Evan covers the essential architecture of ActivityPub, what works and what doesn't, and what is coming up next for the standard. You'll walk out of this talk with just enough knowledge to speak with confidence about anything at Fediforum.

A curated directory connecting organizations, communities and creators to projects and organizations who are committed to making their customers successful on the Open Social Web.

Speed demo by Johannes Ernst (@[email protected], @j12t.org) at FediForum April 2026.

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

A new Mastodon tool for administrators that will watch all new signups and apply a broad range of customizable test to determine if accounts are likely to be real people or bot accounts.

Speed demo by Stefan Hayden (@[email protected]) at FediForum April 2026.

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

Fedica for PeerTube is for creators who publish videos across social media platforms, or those who want to plan their social media calendar. This integration introduces PeerTube to hundreds of thousands of creators who use Fedica.

Speed demo by Samir Al-Battran (@[email protected], @samir.fedica.com) at FediForum April 2026.

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