My highlight of Fosdem26 was our panel ‘The Fediverse and the EU Digital Services Act: Solutions to the Challenges of Modern Social Media?' ✨
Thanks for giving me the possibility to speak about our @offene_netzwerke demands.
A huge thank you @jmaris for organising the panel & his excellent moderation. 👏
Thanks @alexandrageese member of the 🇪🇺 parliament, who took the time to join us & the FOSS community for this important debate over the weekend.
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A worthy recipient. 💯💪
https://itsfoss.com/news/greg-kroah-hartman-european-open-source-award/
Hello #fediverse! Thanks to my new DFF grant, I'm now looking to hire a PhD student to join me at AAU in Aalborg 🇩🇰 to work on "usable decentralization", i.e. on making distributed and federated cloud services accessible to the everyday user. For more details, see link below, and please don't hesitate to DM me with questions!
https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/phd-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/895183
#HCI #academia #getfedihired #decentralization #AAU #Aalborg #Denmark #selfhosted #selfhosting
@alexandrageese Thanks for joining me on the panel on DSA at #FOSDEM. At EU Tech Stars you will meet our technical director @renchap.
A big and warm thank you hug to all the friends I met and talked to in Brussels this time. Two packed days of events before #FOSDEM including an awesome prize ceremony, then two intense days at ULB where I must have talked to more than a hundred persons. All the positivity, the appreciation, the smiles, the ideas, the energy.
I got to end-keynote the thing and then top it off with more drinks and countless friends - again.
I'm drained now, but in a good way. I'll be back next year.
:pidge: It's my birthday, gimme boosts :pidge:
Our age verification resource hub will answer all your questions about the dangerous new age-gating mandates sweeping the US and the world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/age-verification-coming-internet-we-built-you-resource-hub-fight-back
Dear Fedi friends,
Good morning from #FOSDEM!
Yesterday was pure magic: I loved every single presentation in the Social Web devroom, with devs and Fediverse champions sharing their inspiring work.
I didn’t post anything because I was so absorbed in all the talks (plus @liaizon and @Sascha did a fantastic job chronicling the event).
I can’t stop thinking about one of @benpate’s closing slides:
“Every single thing you do to improve the Fediverse is a win for humanity”
YES! 🙌
Tusky 32 with quote display support and other goodies is live on Google Play!
https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/releases/tag/v32.0
Big thanks to everyone who helped us with the release
Just shouted out some important things to come like working with @anewsocial and @bsky.brid.gy and with @swf on encryption
Up next is @hongminhee talking about @fedify
#Fediverse #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #SocialWeb #SocialWebFOSDEM #SocialWebFOSDEM2026
@andypiper@macaw.social just said at #FOSDEM that 2 years ago Mastodon had a booth. Last year Fediverse had half a day. This year, there's a FULL TRACK of #fediverse !
THAT is growth! That is EXCITEMENT! That is people spreading this thing. Keep up the amazing work ALL of you!
ALL OF US MAKE THIS WORK!
And I am so grateful to you for it.
It's awesome seeing the Toot Wales / Twt cymru app featured on the Bonfire talk at #FOSDEM #FOSDEM26
Really excited to meet @jaz and others at their apps launch event later in February.
Bonfire is now another project that looks really awesome and that I want to spend some time looking into.
I think @badgefed (OpenBadges + #ActivityPub) is a great idea 👏🏻 @mapache #FOSDEM #SocialWeb
Announcement: The 3rd Berlin #Fediverse Day will take place again in Berlin from September 11 to September 13, 2026. 🚀 We are very excited and more information will follow as soon as possible. 👨👨👧👧
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Ankündigung, der 3. Berliner Fediverse Day findet vom 11.09.-13.09.2026 wieder in #Berlin statt. 🚀 Wir freuen uns schon sehr und weitere Informationen kommen, asap. 👨👨👧👧
#digitalsovereignty #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #SocialWeb #SocialWebFOSDEM #SocialWebFOSDEM2026
Mastodon server admins, important news!
The Mastodon developers are going to stop suggesting mastodon.social as a "default server".
Instead, the "default" server suggestions are going to be ones for a user's language and/or geographical location.
If your server matches these:
- General public server
- Running vanilla Mastodon
- Mastodon Covenant compliant
- Have existed for 1+ year
- Have shut-down & disaster plans
...then see this post for details: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989802617165343
So excited to be sitting front row with @mellifluousbox at @neil 's talk on Online Safety Laws. 🔥
Neil is an authority on digital laws and its impact on Fediverse services (very relevant for Mastodon admins, mods etc!). #FOSDEM
Took the #Plushtodon for coffee and to the Press Room this week. 💜🇪🇺
(Almost) Every day at 12:00 accredited journalists can ask the European Commission questions. The whole thing gets streamed live on the website, you can watch it here: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/media/video/I-283524
