The Fediverse Foundation is a non-commercial club ("Verein") based in Vienna, Austria, but operating worldwide, with the goal to promote and partially fund the Fediverse.
It hosts a few Fediverse instances on a server in Vienna that runs on 100% green energy, collects donations and tries to get funding.
The Fediverse Foundation will also create promotional material for the Fediverse and appear at fares and other events.

Contact

Website: fediverse.foundation (not set up yet - right now redirects here)
e-Mail: support@fediverse.foundation
Fediverse: @foundation@fediverse.foundation (not set up yet)

History

The Fediverse Foundation was officially founded on April 14th, 2023 by:

  • PaulaToThePeople (chairwoman)
  • Michael (chairwoman's proxy)
  • Mark (cashier)
  • David (data protection officer & admin)
  • Dennis (admin)
  • Helmut (admin)
  • David (admin)

The team was later joined by:

  • Paul
  • Gabi
  • Karin

Events

 

On June 3rd and 4th 2023 the Fediverse Foundation was at the Südwind Straßenfest in Vienna to promote the Fediverse.

Instances and websites hosted by the Fediverse Foundation

Project url Software monthly active users
ClimateJusticeSocial climatejustice.social   Mastodon 1800
WienRocks wien.rocks   Mastodon 1100
ClimateJusticeRocks climatejustice.rocks   Mastodon 342
FediAT fedi.at   Mastodon 165
TyrolSocial tyrol.social   Mastodon 143
ClimateJusticeGlobal climatejustice.global   Mastodon 100
MtG.garden mtg.garden   Mastodon 18
social.fairphone.community social.fairphone.community   Mastodon 6
indiepop.band indiepop.band   Mastodon 3
Climatescienc.es climatescienc.es   Mastodon 2
JoinFediverseWiki joinfediverse.wiki   MediaWiki
MentalCamp mental.camp   Pixelfed

Finances

Currently the hosting of the instances costs 410€ a month, which Paula is paying out of her pocket, while she gets a few donations every now and then. Soon the Foundation will officially start collecting donations which will hopefully cover the costs.