I'm giving a talk at FediCon in Vancouver tomorrow. You can RSVP on Smoke Signal.
Yes, I am staging a post so I can put it in my talk! It's called Beyond Microblogging and I'm going to mostly talk about the joy of the ATmosphere.
Bonfire x Newsmast
We’re excited to share that Bonfire and @newsmast are working together.
We’re collaborating across several key areas:
🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire
🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels mobile app and Bonfire
🌌 Partnering to offer services for organisations around Bonfire’s Mosaic initiative
Here is the FRIDAY schedule for FediCon 2025.
8:30am — Welcome Message
FediCon Organizers
9am (KEYNOTE) — Connecting the Social Web
@evan
[MORNING BREAK: 10am to 10:30am]
10:30am (TALK) — The Last Network Effect
@quillmatiq
11:30am (TALK) — From Millions to Billions: a Plausible Narrative for How to Grow the Open Social Web
@j12t
[LUNCH BREAK: 12:15pm to 1:15pm]
1:15pm — Community Announcements
The Audience
1:30pm (TALK) — SocialBC : Starting a Journey in Non-Profit Social Spaces
@chris
2:30pm (TALK) — Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps
@boris
3:15pm (LIGHTNING) — Tech Reclaimers: Coordinating a social movement toward alternatives
@cyberlyra
3:30pm (PANEL) — WeDistribute IRL (Panel)
@deadsuperhero
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The SATURDAY schedule is here:
https://techhub.social/@fedicon/114949952657681769
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🌐 FediCon
📍 Vancouver (Canada)
🗓️ August 1-2
ℹ️ https://fedicon.ca
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This is the way.
"I think I just onboarded someone to the fediverse. I didn’t say “decentralized” or “open source” or “server” or even mention email lol I just said “It’s like you can follow anyone from any social network and there’s no ads” "
Newsmast x Bonfire
We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire are working together!
We’re collaborating across several key areas:
🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire
🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels app and Bonfire
🌌 Partnering to offer services for organisations around Bonfire’s Mosaic initiative
🎉 Huge shoutouts to two amazing contributors from Korea's #OSSCA program who just made #Fedify even better!
First, @z9mb1 delivered PR #321, adding a handy -o/--output option to fedify lookup. Now you can save lookup results directly to files instead of just printing to terminal—a nice quality-of-life improvement for analysis and scripting workflows.
But the real showstopper is @joonnot's incredible PR #283, which introduces the brand new @fedify/testing package! This massive contribution (2,014 lines across 20 files) brings MockFederation and MockContext classes that completely transform how we test federated applications. No more complex setups or actual network requests—just clean, straightforward unit testing with activity tracking, inbox simulation, and queue-aware testing capabilities.
These contributions solve real pain points and showcase the amazing talent emerging from the OSSCA program. Both features will be available in the upcoming Fedify 1.8 release. The future of federated software development just got a lot brighter! 🚀
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