Friendica at FOSDEM 2026


We are excited to be part of the 2026 edition of the Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM with a short update on Friendica on Saturday @18:00 CET about what happened in 2025 with Friendica. Should you happen to be in Brussels at the weekend of the 31. Jan / 1. Feb and want to join a Friendica community meetup – please use this forum post for coordination.

See you at FOSDEM!


friendi.ca/2026/01/16/friendic…


Hey all, in two week this years #FOSDEM will happen in #Brussels - there will be a Social Web Dev room on Saturday and a brief update about Friendica.

I heard whispers that @Michael 🇺🇦 and @Fabio will be there. Question who else? And would you mind to grab some fries and call it a #Friendica community meetup?

!Friendica Support

in reply to Michael 🇺🇦

Not saying it will work, not saying it wont, but we are prepared 😀
vhsky.cz/w/dQ97cEum3V9QvWP8MS5…


Social web - FOSDEM 2026


Livestream from room H.2215 (Ferrer)
Topic: Social web

Livechat is not bridget to FOSDEM staff, it's only intended for local commentaries.

Schedule:
10:40 JSON Databases and Small ActivityPub Servers: A Perfect Combination (Darius Kazemi)
11:00 Democratise the Fediverse (Matthias Pfefferle)
11:30 Tending the Herd: Community at Mastodon (Hannah Aubry)
12:00 Amplify Our Voices: Building Digital Sovereignty on the Fediverse (Benjamin Bellamy)
12:30 Reaching out to the wider society: Why the open social web needs to matter to more people – and how we can achieve that goal (Björn Staschen)
13:00 tags.pub - following hashtags globally (Evan Prodromou)
13:10 Increasing Long Term Stability of Relations Between Fediverse Identities using SSI (Paul Fuxjäger)
13:20 Unlocking development with ActivityPub Client to Server API (Django Doucet)
14:00 Federated Bookmark Sharing (Rafael Epplée)
14:10 Are digital rules a show stopper for the Fediverse? (Rebecca Sieber)
14:30 The Social Web and Digital Sovereignty: Building Social Advocacy Networks in and for Europe. (Sandra Barthel)
14:40 Building a sustainable italian fediverse: overcoming technical, adoption and moderation challenges (Fra - OpenForFuture, Filippo Della Bianca, Valentino Spataro)
15:10 How to level up the fediverse (Christine Lemmer-Webber, Jessica Tallon)
15:40Fediverse Integration into (EU) Public Administration - A Fantastic FediVariety Circus (Peter Mechels, vishnee)
16:00 ActivityPub at Scale: Institutional Entry Points into the Social Web (Melanie Bartos)
16:10 The needs of civil institutions for The Next Socials (Pepijn Lemmens)
16:20 A wild FASP appears! Integrating your app with Fediverse Auxiliary Service Providers (James Smith)
16:30 Decentralised Badges with BadgeFed: Implementing ActivityPub-based Credentials for Non Profits (Maho Pacheco)
16:50Splinter - Split long articles into Mastodon threads (Eyal Ron (Neiman))
17:20 Bonfire: Building Modular, Consentful, and Federated Social Networks (Mayel de Borniol, ivan minutillo)
17:40 Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain (Hong Minhee)
18:00 Friendica - Hidden in plain sight since 2025 (Tobias Diekershoff)
18:10 Fedi legacy (Ian Forrester, Samuel Margerison)
18:20 Mobilizon - share events on the fediverse (Stéphane, Alexandra)
18:30 Emissary and the Fediverse (Ben Pate)

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