Know any content creators with a premium membership platform or any kind of community platform that'd be interested in taking a survey?

https://survey.btfree.org/247331

This data will be useful in helping Fediverse developers pinpoint tools and features they're currently missing.

Please feel free to fill out yourself and share with other creators!  Thank you!

Know any content creators with a premium membership platform or any kind of community platform that'd be interested in taking a survey?

https://survey.btfree.org/247331

This data will be useful in helping Fediverse developers pinpoint tools and features they're currently missing.

Please feel free to fill out yourself and share with other creators!  Thank you!

I'm not with the SWF, but today they announce a $20,000 grant for a team of a developer and a content creator. I'm no developer, but if anyone wants to apply with me, I'm up for it. :D You can be a part of more than one team. They obviously can't and won't take all entries, but why not try?

Here's the page:

Today, with the help of our partner the Interledger Foundation, we are announcing a new program of grants for multimedia software and creators. In this program, we are asking software developers and publishers to partner to make new and better content on the Fediverse.

Multimedia, such as audio, video, and images, provides an engaging experience for Fediverse users. It can give a more visceral social and media experience than text alone. Multimedia software, however, can be difficult to develop, host, and use, and integrating it with other ActivityPub services takes time.

It’s also challenging to produce engaging media on the Fediverse. It can be hard to develop an audience, work with unfamiliar tools, and understand the different dynamics of a federated architecture.

Our intent with the Fediverse Multimedia Grants program is to bring more, and newer, rich content to the Fediverse for people to enjoy. We want to give creators a chance to get their feet under them, develop an audience, and make a permanent home on the Fediverse. We also want this program to help developers concentrate on creators’ needs — authoring, editing, organizing and publishing rich, engaging content.

For this program, we are offering grants of up to US$20,000 to developer/creator teams to start new publications on the Fediverse. We expect the teams to work in close cooperation, providing mutual support and feedback. Our expected outcome is ActivityPub-enabled software that’s better fitted to the needs of creators, and new publications with a foothold in the Fediverse.

Applications are open today at the Fediverse Multimedia Grants round of our grants portal. Applications are only for developer/creator teams. For publishers who aren’t familiar with Fediverse software, or developers who don’t have a good idea for a publisher to work with, please feel free to contact us and we’ll try to point you in the right direction to make a match.

Important dates for the program:

Applications open: 7 Oct 2026 (today)
Applications due: 4 Nov 2026
Decisions announced: 18 Nov 2026
Projects start: 1 Dec 2026
Please ask questions in the comments and replies for this post, or contact us privately. I (Evan) will also be organizing a session on the grant program at Fediforum today, 7 Oct 2026.

Thanks so much to the Interledger Foundation who generously funded this and other programs at the Social Web Foundation and who have been excellent creative partners in crafting this program.

I'm not with the SWF, but today they announce a $20,000 grant for a team of a developer and a content creator. I'm no developer, but if anyone wants to apply with me, I'm up for it. :D You can be a part of more than one team. They obviously can't and won't take all entries, but why not try?

Here's the page:

Today, with the help of our partner the Interledger Foundation, we are announcing a new program of grants for multimedia software and creators. In this program, we are asking software developers and publishers to partner to make new and better content on the Fediverse.

Multimedia, such as audio, video, and images, provides an engaging experience for Fediverse users. It can give a more visceral social and media experience than text alone. Multimedia software, however, can be difficult to develop, host, and use, and integrating it with other ActivityPub services takes time.

It’s also challenging to produce engaging media on the Fediverse. It can be hard to develop an audience, work with unfamiliar tools, and understand the different dynamics of a federated architecture.

Our intent with the Fediverse Multimedia Grants program is to bring more, and newer, rich content to the Fediverse for people to enjoy. We want to give creators a chance to get their feet under them, develop an audience, and make a permanent home on the Fediverse. We also want this program to help developers concentrate on creators’ needs — authoring, editing, organizing and publishing rich, engaging content.

For this program, we are offering grants of up to US$20,000 to developer/creator teams to start new publications on the Fediverse. We expect the teams to work in close cooperation, providing mutual support and feedback. Our expected outcome is ActivityPub-enabled software that’s better fitted to the needs of creators, and new publications with a foothold in the Fediverse.

Applications are open today at the Fediverse Multimedia Grants round of our grants portal. Applications are only for developer/creator teams. For publishers who aren’t familiar with Fediverse software, or developers who don’t have a good idea for a publisher to work with, please feel free to contact us and we’ll try to point you in the right direction to make a match.

Important dates for the program:

Applications open: 7 Oct 2026 (today)
Applications due: 4 Nov 2026
Decisions announced: 18 Nov 2026
Projects start: 1 Dec 2026
Please ask questions in the comments and replies for this post, or contact us privately. I (Evan) will also be organizing a session on the grant program at Fediforum today, 7 Oct 2026.

Thanks so much to the Interledger Foundation who generously funded this and other programs at the Social Web Foundation and who have been excellent creative partners in crafting this program.

PieFed
Your Ad‑Free Forum for Real Community

Federated, open‑source, ad‑free, and fully under your control. Build or join a community that reflects your values – no algorithms, no corporate overlords, no attention economy.

No ads, no tracking, no addictive algorithms – your feed is built by you.

Join our server or host your own for full control. Self‑host or pick an instance aligned with your values.

Federated freedom. Posts on one server can be seen, shared, and discussed by users on any other server, too. Everything runs on open standards (ActivityPub), creating a diverse and billionaire-resistant ecosystem.

Open‑source & developer-friendly. Python‑powered and AGPL licensed – easy to customize and contribute.

https://join.piefed.social/
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi
https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/INSTALL-docker.md

New episode of Works On My Machine LIVE!

We put developers and their docs through the test to see how idiot proof it is. Installing their application live on stream for everyone to watch, ask questions, get to know the project and the developer. JOIN US!

@[email protected]

https://womm.live/

This episode:

PieFed

A Lemmy/Mbin alternative written in Python with Flask.

Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to. No fancy design patterns or algorithms.

Easy setup, easy to manage - few dependencies and extra software required.

AGPL.

First class moderation tools.

Project goals

To build a federated discussion and link aggregation platform, similar to Reddit, Lemmy, Mbin interoperable with as much of the fediverse as possible.

I'm going to be doing a "Works On My Machine LIVE" episode with Rimu for Piefed.

Monday Aug 31st 00:00 UTC. I think?!? :D Time zones always screw me up.

https://womm.live/

Calendar: https://freestreamers.btfree.org/

If this should go somewhere else, please let me know. :)

Main Fossy site - https://2026.fossy.ca/

Your favorite #podcast ( you know the one. The one that's #livestream at FiresideFedi.live and the #VODS hosted at tubefree.org/@firesidefedi )

MORE LIVE-ER

...

than EVER!

...

FIRESIDE FEDI LIVE!

...

AND IN PERSON!

They said it couldn't be done! But we're doing it!

Talking with #fediverse #developers live and on stage!

...

FIVE on ONE!

...

Without a NET!

And this time the STAKES are even HIGHER!

Live studio audience!

RABID #Fedizens!

...

Rabid for content!

...

WITH SPECIAL GUEST for the first time ANYWHERE:

JOHN MASTODON! Cancelled

This won't be just any normal show!  It's the show you've waited your ENTIRE LIFE to see!

We'll also be speaking with these following extraordinary people:

• Dan Supernault - @[email protected]

Currently building @pixelfed, @loops, @supapp, @fedidb, and more.

• Django Doucet - @[email protected] -

Django is a Social Web Developer and Instructor of Digital Design at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology). He has contributed to various ActivityPub projects over the years, notably WordPress-ActivityPub, and is currently developing a Progressive Web App to push forward the unrealized potential of the ActivityPub Client API.

• Vagrant Cascasian - @[email protected] - 

Involved in various #FOSS projects such as #ReproducibleBuilds #Debian #Guix and so much more. Passionate about #Aikido and #Solar hobbyist.

• Matt Baer - @[email protected] -

#Founder https://writing.exchange/@write_as , https://musing.studio/

Lead #dev https://writing.exchange/@writefreely

Co-organizer https://gram.social/nycphotostroll

#Admin @ https://writing.exchange/

• Ben Pate - @[email protected] -

Ben is the nerd who's building https://emissary.dev/ - an #ActivityPub server for building custom social applications on the #Fediverse .

First app on this platform is a #music #sharing #server for indie bands, called https://bandwagon.fm/ . He's also working on https://atlasmaps.org/, a #social #mapping server for adding #Federated annotations to places in the real world.

HARD HITTING questions! Questions like:

Pie or Cake?

Red, Blue or Green?

Best Fediverse Application?

Don't forget to catch us at #FOSSY #FediCon track Aug 8th! https://2026.fossy.ca/schedule/presentation/465/

IT

WILL

BE

hopefully, honestly just a really a lovely time really!

https://www.tribe-x.org/en
https://tubefree.org/c/degooglewebinars/videos

https://antonyloewenstein.com/books/the-palestine-laboratory-how-israel-exports-the-technology-of-occupation-around-the-world/
https://www.justsecurity.org/10311/michael-hayden-kill-people-based-metadata/

https://nodebb.org/
https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/

https://nodebb.org/
https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/

https://nodebb.org/
https://docs.nodebb.org/installing/os/ubuntu/

So I was just thinking, the way I look at PieFed is that I like to have the main site up, when I find an article I'm interested in I center wheel click it to open it in a new window and then keep going to find other articles. I then go look at all of the articles one at a time and then come back to the main website.

My thought is, what if hovering over the topic, or clicking it, caused a fly out. So the page splits and shows the article on the side or in a box hovering over the topic. A lot of times I just like to see the comments really and if I want the article then I just click through. But most times it's just to get a summary or make a quick comment. Think email client. Show the topics on the left and then clicking it opens the topic on the right.

Just a thought.

An engaging and rigorous, hands-on science program for your middle school science classroom... for FREE! Being developed in partnership with the NSTA, Class CrunchLabs is a supplemental curriculum resource designed for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

@[email protected]
https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou
https://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page
https://elgg.org/profile/bwerdmuller
https://gnusocial.rocks/
https://mediagoblin.org/

@[email protected]
https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Prodromou
https://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page
https://elgg.org/profile/bwerdmuller
https://gnusocial.rocks/
https://mediagoblin.org/

I wanted to announce that I'm going to be speaking with Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub the protocol that powers the Fediverse, today 1400 US Eastern (UTC-4).

Livestream powered by Owncast.

VODs will be posted on https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi for those interested in watching it later. Powered by Peertube. :)

I wanted to announce that I'm going to be speaking with Evan Prodromou, co-author of ActivityPub the protocol that powers the Fediverse, today 1400 US Eastern (UTC-4).

Livestream powered by Owncast.

VODs will be posted on https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi for those interested in watching it later. Powered by Peertube. :)

Since I asked about memes, what about just clip art? This could add TONS of fun built into Piefed with connections to open clip art.

From their website:

What is Openclipart?

Founded in 2004, Openclipart is an online media collection of more than 180,000 vectorial graphics, entirely in the public domain. You can read more on the Wikipedia page.

https://openclipart.org/developers