Fedi Forum June 2025 was incredible; hopeful, inspiring, motivating. Filled with passionate and skilled people, across a wide variety of areas, it felt like great ideas were formed ready to be put into action over the coming months.

Only then we all disperse back to our basements, bedrooms and offices to continue doing the work alone.

One of the topics at Fedi Forum was how do we keep the community together between conferences, and how do we enable both collaboration and accountability on the projects that are happening.
My idea for this is #FediForumFriday; a weekly hashtag where people are reminded to check in on the projects they were excited about, the people they connected with, or to reach out and say “hey, I’ve got some hours spare if anyone needs help with insert skillset here.“

A hashtag is a more casual way to keep the conversation going. It’s low effort and, hopefully, high impact, acting more as a nudge to the folks who attended to follow up on that to-do list and take action.

Things you might want to post about on #FediForumFriday:

• Boost or share a post about one of the demos you saw.
• Check in with the people working on something you thought was awesome, either to offer help or cheer them on.
• Chat with some of the other attendees to reignite the spark you felt at the conference.
• Post about the steps you’ve taken this week to get people onto the Fediverse, explore a different part of it, or cool thing you discovered.
• Ask for volunteers to help you solve a problem you’ve run into or get over a hump in the development process.
• Share an update on the personal fedi related project you’ve been working on.
• Ask for beta testers or guinea pigs for your project.
• Ask your “stupid” question about that fedi thing you’ve been trying to figure out and just can’t.

My thought / hope is that it will keep people connected both to each other, and to the feeling of momentum and community that was so potent during Fedi Forum. Keeping us all motivated and positive is, in my opinion, a really important part of driving the fediverse forward.

I would love to hear feedback on this and am happy to set up a scheduled post to my Mastodon account each Friday to see how it goes.

Now to get on with figuring out how to connect this blog to the fediverse so comments appear here…