The social web is bigger than software. It’s a movement to build a liberated internet for the people, and it will take all of us working together to deliver on that promise.

Mastodon is a decentralised social networking platform powered by free software which allows users and institutions to create and join independent communities. It's also the nonprofit foundation that supports them, and looking after the humans of the social web is core to the Mastodon foundation’s mission. If you’ve been following us closely, you’ll know we just completed a radical transformation of our foundation's operations. One reason we did this was to support more direct community participation in shaping and deciding the future of Mastodon. In the coming year, we’re also planning to increase our efforts with and on behalf of the communities we support and that surround us: from server admins to the broader social web and Fediverse.

In this talk, Mastodon’s new Community Director Hannah Aubry will share the foundation’s plans for evolving how the project approaches its many communities, from server admins to the broader social web. Bear in mind this isn’t just a talk; it’s an invitation to co-create the future of Mastodon.