Many event organizers run their own websites, even many small ones do. But publishing their events solely there is not enough. They have to post their events on multiple websites or channels, such as Facebook, local community or individual-managed sites to reach people. The posting has to be done manually, one by one for each channel. This is causing a huge amount over additional work, especially crucial for low-budget community events.

Centralized platforms have the greatest reach, not only because so many people are already using them, but also because searching for events can be done in one place. Centralized calendars lead to a monopoly, a silo which makes it hard to migrate from.

The Fediverse, decentralized social-media like publishing, provides a solution to this problem. While short notes, images and videos are already popular through platforms like Mastodon and PeerTube, events still are about getting started.

This talk might give answers to why Events are not that popular yet in the Fediverse, but more importantly it will show you what decentralized event publishing is already capable of, and what to expect in the feature.