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Open Social Awards 2026
https://connect.fediforum.org/awards/open-social-2026/
Awarded in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 5, 2026, at the Public Spaces Conference.
Organized by New_ Public, PublicSpaces and Waag Futurelab, with jury members Audrey Tang, Johannes Ernst, Melanie Bartos, Mike Masnick, Robin Berjon and Laurens Hof and supported by Bluesky PBC and ZDF.
Grand prize
Newsmast Foundation Ltd
Helping mission-driven organizations build their own safe, independent, but connected digital spaces
Excellence award
Blacksky Algorithms
Largest Black community on the open social web, with community governance, and provider of community infrastructure
sill.social
Replacing doom scrolling with surfacing interesting links from your feeds
Honorable mention
Bonfire Networks
A framework for communities to build their own federated digital spaces, with their own governance, moderation, and features.
Bounce
Migrate your account between ActivityPub and AT Protocol: leave any platform without losing your community.
dandelion.events
An event platform where every ticket and listing lives as open data on AT Protocol. Events that belong to organisers, not platforms.
leaflet.pub
A publishing platform where every post lives in the author's own AT Protocol repository for writers who want to own their relationship with their audience, not rent it from a platform.
stream.place
Open-source live and on-demand video built on AT Protocol, with features to verify human authenticity in an era of AI-generated content.
