We Distribute

Activity In the Pub
2025-07-10 18:15 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | 3 Brasseurs, 105 Rue Saint-Paul E, Montreal, H2Y 1G7, Canada
Nous avons une table de réserve, venez rencontrer d’autres fediverse personnes a Montreal.

10 juillet, 18h15 3 Brasseurs 105 Rue Saint-Paul Est

We have a table reserved, come along and meet other people involved in the fediverse.

FediForum June 2025
2025-06-05 08:00 - 2025-06-07 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | QC
FediForum, the network-wide unconference for Fedizens, is back! The event has undergone a radical transformation to be more inclusive, with a diverse advisory board helping to build a safe and respectful space for attendees. Watch the latest presentations from the people building the network, participate in supportive discussions about what the Social Web currently needs, and watch cool demos from the latest apps and platforms!

Thursday, June 58:00 am to 1:00 pm pacific time (UTC-7) Keynote: Ian ForresterKeynote: Cory Doctorow Software speed demos Orientation session: What’s new in the Open Social Web? Collaborative agenda making and unconference sessionsFriday, June 68:00 am to 1:00 pm pacific time (UTC-7) Keynote: Christine Lemmer-Webber Collaborative agenda making and unconference sessionsSaturday, June 78:00 am to 1:00 pm pacific time (UTC-7) Software speed demos Collaborative agenda making and unconference sessions

Check this page for a comprehensive schedule breakdown for each day! The unconference format allows attendees to help set the schedule for discussions and presentations.

Pricing

FediForum offers the following price packages for admission:

PackagePriceGeneral Admission$40.00 + $3.29 fee(Almost) Free Ticket$0.67 + $1.32 feeContributor Ticket (support the community)$100.00 + $6.29 feePlatform Employee Ticket$250.00 + $13.79 fee

ATypl Copenhagen 2025
2025-04-22 08:00 - 2025-04-26 16:00 (Europe/Copenhagen) | Royal Danish Academy, Philip De Langes Allé 10, Copenhagen, 1435, Denmark
ATypI, also referred to as Association Typographique Internationale, is an international non-profit organization dedicated to typography and type design. The organization runs a global fonts and typography conference that has been held annually since 1957. The 2025 conference is set in Copenhagen, with a venue located at the Royal Danish Academy, located by the harbor and the famous Refshaleøen.

Stay tuned for details on tickets, the call for proposals, sponsorship opportunities, and much more.

Bluesky SXSW Austin Meetup
2025-03-10 17:30 - 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Mort Subite Belgian Beer Bar, 308 Congress Ave, Austin, Texas, 78701, United States
​(Note: This event is simply being mirrored from another source. We Distribute is simply promoting this event on our calendar for interested parties)

Join us for a bsky community meetup in Austin during SXSW! No SXSW badge required – please RSVP with your bluesky handle. Let’s be honest, this is really just a homecoming reunion party with @pfrazee.

Fediverse House @ SXSW
2025-03-09 09:00 - 2025-03-10 19:00 (America/Chicago) | Speakeasy, 412 Congress Ave. D, Austin, Texas, 78701, United States
Note: SXSW ticket purchases are not required for this event.

Flipboard and Surf are excited to host the first-ever Fediverse House at SXSW. Join us to learn about the brave new world of decentralized social media and why it promises a better way for consumers, creators, brands, and even democracy itself.

Located just three blocks from the Austin Convention Center, at the Speakeasy (412 Congress Ave.), the Fediverse House creates a space for strategic conversations, networking opportunities, and refreshments throughout the day. You’ll hear from visionaries, builders, and open-source advocates from places like Bluesky, Threads, the Social Web Foundation, and 404 Media.

Schedule

Sunday, March 9

Accelerating Innovation Across the Open Social Web (Part 1) / RSVP

9am: Fediverse House at SXSW is open! Stop by for coffee and a morning of inspirational talks on the future of social and the internet.

9:30am: Welcome from Mike McCue, CEO and Co-Founder, Flipboard

9:45am: “A Better Web Is Possible” with Molly White, Researcher, Software Engineer and Writer

10am – 11am: David Imel’s “Fediverse Corner” with Mike Masnick, Board of Directors, Bluesky; Evan Prodromou, Co-author ActivityPub and Research Director, Social Web Foundation; and Peter Cottle, Software Engineer, Threads

11:30am – 1:30pm: Networking session and light lunch, presented by the Social Web Foundation

2pm – 3pm: Developer meetup and book signing with ActivityPub Co-author Evan Prodromou / RSVP

Accelerating Innovation Across the Open Social Web (Part 2) / RSVP

4pm – 4:45pm: TBA

5pm – 5:45pm: Fireside chat with Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Mike McCue

6pm – 7pm: “Dot Social Live” with David Imel, co-host of Waveform podcast, and Mike McCue

The Open Social Social / RSVP

7pm – 10pm: Evening party — refreshments and tunes with your new fedi friends

Monday, March 10

The New Playbook / RSVP

9am – 9:45am: “From Walled Gardens to the Open Social Web: The Next Evolution of Brand Storytelling” with Gina Michnowicz, CEO and CCO at The Craftsman Agency

10am – 10:45am: “Creators and the Fediverse,” with Peter Cottle, Software Engineer, Threads, and TBA, moderated by Shira Lazar, Creator and Founder of What’s Trending

11am – 11:45am: “Building Communities,” with Rose Wang, COO, Bluesky, and Andy Piper, Developer Relations Lead, Mastodon, moderated by Mia Quagliarello, Head of Creator Community, Flipboard

12:30pm – 2pm: Networking lunch and demo of Surf*, a new kind of browser unifying the social web, with Mike McCue

Publishers in the Fediverse / RSVP

3pm: Fireside chat with Cory Doctorow, Journalist and Sci-Fi Author, and Mike McCue

4pm – 4:45pm: “Publishers: Audience and Autonomy” with 404 Media’s Jason Koebler, Texas Observer’s Kit O’Connell, and TBA

404 Media Takeover and Evening Party / RSVP

5pm – 5:45pm: “Generative AI Is Eating the Internet”: 404 Media’s Sam Cole and Jason Koebler and Blood in the Machine’s Brian Merchant discuss how AI slop is taking over the internet, and how humans can fight back.

6pm – 6:45 pm: “Indie Media Happy Hour and Q&A”: A free-flowing discussion about how to set up and run an independent media outlet featuring 404 Media and friends

7pm – 10pm: Evening party hosted by your friends at 404 Media

To get access before SXSW, go here and use SURFSXSW as the referral code.

Federated Event Teasting
2025-01-08 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Phoenix) | QC
This is just a test, we’re using a new WordPress plugin that can bridge events from various WordPress calendars directly to any Fediverse platform capable of doing event activity types

NostrAsia 2024
2024-09-23 12:30 - 21:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | Crypto Lounge GOX, Tenam Town Building 6F, Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Kabukicho, 2 Chome−19−15 6階, 〒160-0021, Japan
NostrAsia is an annual Nostr Unconference organized by Nostr.World, with a focus on bringing together friends, acquaintances, and like-minded Nostr supporters into a single venue to hang out, get to know each other, and talk shop. Tickets for this event are free!

September 2024 FediForum
2024-09-12 08:00 - 2024-09-14 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | QC
Breaking walled gardens open and connecting them into the free, open and decentralized social network called the Fediverse is the largest change to social networking ever.

It is already changing how millions of people interact online, major organizations are changing their strategies, and we have barely started!

Ticket Pricing

There are a number of different tiers for FediForum tickets, check the overview below.

$1.99 – Almost Free Ticket: This ticket is for Fedi folk for whom the general ticket is too expensive. It is sponsored by attendees who are purchasing a Contributor Ticket. We will make more tickets available in this class as more Contributors sign up.

$40 – General Ticket: This ticket pays for regular attendance by a single individual.

$100 – Contributor Ticket: Your extra dollars allow us to offer (almost) free tickets to Fedi folk who cannot afford regular tickets.

$250 – Platform Employee Ticket: Choose this ticket if you work for a major organization and you are coming to FediForum as part of your work.

The FediForum online unconference brings the people together who are making it happen.Join us?

ATProtocal Dev Talks: Smoke Signal Events
2024-09-05 09:00 - 10:15 (America/Denver) | QC
​Smoke Signal is an Events & RSVP system built on top of ATProtocol

​Developer Nick Gerakines has an extensive background in social platforms:

I started Smoke Signal because users should have ownership and control of the content that they create. Having built sites like del.icio.us at Yahoo in the Social Search group and contributed to early web 2.0 sites like upcoming.org and Flickr, I firmly believe that there is sustainable demand for online services that are both functional and not harmful.

​Nick has written some great blog posts on this:

https://docs.smokesignal.events/blog/why-atprotocol/

​https://docs.smokesignal.events/blog/for-communities/

​​We’ll have time for live Q&A and discussion.

Doctor Deathray @ RFF Live Stream
2024-08-31 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | QC
Doctor Deathray is a musician, audio engineer, and general odd person.

She will be performing “music from the void! Solo, looping, and strange noises galore! Hear the word, see the sound, taste the music with Doctor Deathray”

ATProtocol Dev Talks: Frontpage Link Aggregator
2024-08-29 09:00 - 10:15 (America/Denver) | QC
Frontpage is a link aggregator built on top of the ATProtocol.

​Tom Sherman will present on building Frontpage, making a Lexicon for link aggregation, and what the experience is of working with ATProtocol.

​We’ll have time for live Q&A and discussion.

What comes after Web 2.0?
2024-08-27 19:00 - 21:00 (Europe/London) | Newspeak House, 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, London, E2 7DG, United Kingdom
Join Dan Abramov for an informal preview of his upcoming talk about the Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProtocol) — an attempt to create the minimal necessary building blocks for a people-first, user-controlled social interactive web. ​Dan is a software engineer currently working at Bluesky. Before Bluesky, Dan used to work on the React team at Meta.

Radio Free Fedi Live Stream: BGM
2024-08-22 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Toronto) | RFF Live Stream
bgm comes to you from a tiny room in downtown Toronto, and will be playing a selection of their tracks live. RFF voice here to say BGM has gifted the community with some of the most wholesomely calming and funny musical station IDs we’ve had the joy to receive.

bgm is “very much into HomeRecording music and Music Production, specifically: indie, pop, folk, rock and whatever offshoots and subgenre of those the kids use these days”

NostRiga 2024
2024-08-22 08:00 - 2024-08-23 17:00 (Europe/Riga) | Fantadroms, Conference Center, Gustava Zemgala gat. 76, Vidzemes priekšpilsēta, Riga, LV-1039, Latvia
Nostr.World Unconference 3rd Edition

Nostriga is part of the “nostr.world unconference” series, now in its third edition. It’s a cost-free event aimed at gathering nostriches globally to share knowledge, collaborate, and work towards a freely accessible internet.

All updates regarding the Unconference will be communicated through Notes on the Official Nostriga account or via direct messages (DM) from the Nostriga official account. The npub for the official Nostriga account is npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l.

Tickets will be sent out on August 1st, 2024. Expect a direct message on your nostr account with the details.
