Filippo Della Bianca
An Italian Free Software and Fediverse advocate, community builder, and system administrator. He has spent years developing, hosting, and moderating large Fediverse communities, helping thousands of users, organizations, and public institutions adopt decentralized social platforms.
He is the founder of several Fediverse initiatives, including Devol and Fedimedia, and actively promotes digital sovereignty, open standards, and ethical online communities through talks, workshops, and community outreach. His work focuses on practical strategies for growing resilient online communities beyond Big Tech platforms while making decentralized technologies accessible to non-technical users.
Session
Many Free Software projects, non-profit organizations, and digital rights communities have opened accounts on the Fediverse—but far fewer have succeeded in making it a real communication channel.
Simply copying posts from X, Facebook, or LinkedIn rarely works. The Fediverse follows different social dynamics, rewards authentic interaction, and offers opportunities that centralized platforms cannot provide.
Drawing on years of experience running and moderating some of Italy's largest Fediverse communities, this talk presents practical strategies that have helped thousands of users discover, join, and actively participate in decentralized social networks.
Rather than advocating an abrupt departure from Big Tech platforms, the session explores realistic migration strategies that allow organizations to maintain their existing audience while steadily growing independent communities.
Attendees will learn how to increase engagement, encourage voluntary migration, organize onboarding campaigns, leverage community directories and curated recommendations, and measure success using meaningful community metrics instead of algorithm-driven follower counts.
Whether you represent a Free Software project, an open source community, a public institution, or a non-profit organization, you'll leave with practical techniques you can apply immediately.