Updates from our blog

We publish a range of updates about the activities of the foundation. You can find them all here.

  • Evan Prodromou at Fedicon 2026

    This is a quick reminder that I (Evan) will be speaking about 10 Ways to Grow the Fediverse at Fedicon 2026. Fedicon is a fantastic event in Vancouver, colocated with FOSSY, that brings together some of the most interesting people working on the Fediverse today. I’m excited about talking about Fediverse growth, but I’m equally…

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  • Help HOPE Hackers Hop Onto the Fediverse

    On Friday, August 14, 2026 at the HOPE conference in New York City, we’ll be running a workshop to help new people join the Fediverse. This is an exciting first for us, and we’d love your help making it a great experience. Here’s what we need: Please reply to this post with ideas or contact…

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  • New in Tech Policy Press, “The Web Needs a Context Layer Built on a Shared Protocol”

    Years of thinking from scholars like Francis Fukuyama and Renée DiResta have gone into what are called “middleware” solutions to content moderation. With Evan Friedman from FABRIC, this is our contribution to the solution space—a standardized protocol suite to facilitate an opt-in way of seeing how different communities understand the same story, where they disagree,…

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  • Unsubscribing tags.pub from Open Registration Relays

    A relay server is a server that collects public content from many Fediverse servers and distributes it to the other servers. tags.pub , the global hashtag server run by the Social Web Foundation, can follow relay servers and boost any tagged content coming from the connected servers. Especially for relay servers that gather together content…

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  • SWF at UN Open Source Week

    I (Evan) will be at UN Open Source Week this week. I am not speaking, but I’ll be meeting with others in the space. If you’re at the conference and want to meet, please let me know!

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