Notices by Ric Harvey 🇪🇺🌍💚 (ric@mastodon.squarecows.com)

People I’d like to thank this year for helping build the #fediverse

@dansup probably the hardest working person in the fediverse @pixelfed and @loops creator

@rolle for his wonderful theme for mastodon I love it ❤️

The teams behind @Castopod @Mastodon

@andypiper great guy lots of great content on devRel - personally learn a lot for him for my job

And a special call out for @geerlingguy not directly Fediverse specific but one of the best content creators on here and always responds to ppl

@film_girl does this automatically train on your files or collect other data? Wondering how it can be free without ms making a loss.

@selea can penpot export HTML code yet? I think figma can.

@matt I have a really nice setup in docker using compose. It even includes open search and libre translate. For me I find this the neatest way to run software without contamination of the host.

@matt I guess the only clunky bits I find is if you want to customise the image for say a custom theme or to increase the char count etc. I’m happy to share my compose files if you’re interested. I’m almost finished writing up a big how to guide.

@matt so this is the start. I’m aiming to finish this next week: https://code.squarecows.com/ric/mastodon-setup-guide

I’m seeing so many posts about #bluesky lately. I’m still not convinced it’s the future, it’s funding model is going to drive the normal data mining and enshitification we’ve seen with before, it’s also at the whim of the owner/board/share holders who may drive an agenda that supports their beliefs. Is also not decentralised/federated (yet), and the promise to do so, well see my comments about its funding. I’m staying here with true decentralised and federated open source social media!

Seen on linked in!