Notices by Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)

Today is a day for some hardware tinkering. #ClockworkPi #DevTerm #PicoCalc #Linux

Day two in the Netherlands. Looking forward to meeting some Mastodon instance admins this morning and then talking to publishers and media folks later today. #MastodonInNL

Sharing some professional news: I've joined Mastodon full-time as Head of Communications! After freelancing with the project since 2023, I'm excited to bring my experience in open source and community to help tell the story of the Fediverse. Read more on my blog.

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/04/15/communicating-changes/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

I love to see the success of the simple hashtag as a cultural icon - hat tip @chrismessina :salute:

I know some of you cool cats are like me and still use Last.FM for music scrobbling (I also love Libre.FM, FWIW); I made a widget for Glance that shows recently played tracks. PR here. https://github.com/glanceapp/community-widgets/pull/34

@graves501 oh, there used to be, but I know libre.fm has been in flux for a while... @mattl any pointers on this?

Oh hello there @staff 👀

This is where we will be sharing any important updates about the day-to-day management and user operations for our own mastodon.social and mastodon.online instances - feel free to follow that account if you like.

Very happy to see my friends @snarfed.org @quillmatiq moving forward with @anewsocial 👏🏻 https://blog.anew.social/breaking-ground/

“I find that Bluesky and Mastodon are more human” @jasonkoebler #FediverseHouse

I really appreciated the opportunity to take part in the first ever #FediverseHouse at #SXSW. Online connections are good, and then IRL connections deepen the trust. Thanks to the @Flipboard team for getting it together (and @surf is looking excellent, nice work!). Thanks to @swf for helping me to join the event. Many many individuals all made it a great in-person ideas jam. 2025 is looking strong for our communities.

This was a wonderful thing at #FediverseHouse - Sofia Kavlin / ArsPoetica gifted me a poem.

Next up #FediverseHouse is @mike showing off the Dawn Patrol beta of @surf 🌊

"Fediverse Corner" with @pcottle @mmasnick @evan moderated by @davidimel #fediversehouse

Question about musicians moving to the #fediverse - we have good news with platforms and apps like Bandwagon and Faircamp coming up! #FediverseHouse

This is dot Social live! #podcast #FediverseHouse #SXSW @davidimel @mike

#FediverseHouse it was fun hearing the term "FOAF" in a conversation earlier in the day, then searching back to 2003 to see when I was blogging about messing with that stuff. Turns out I've been doing social-related tech for way longer than I had thought about.

"think critically about the tools you use, ask yourself whose interests they serve, whether they align with your values..." @molly0xfff #FediverseHouse 👏🏻

Who is coming to #FediverseHouse at #SXSW on Sunday and Monday? We have some great ActivityPub-flavoured social web content as part of the weekend. Also, make sure to signup for "The Open Social Social" on Sunday and come say hi, I'll have some fun stickers to share.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse-house/

Incredible scenes as British Airways fail to deliver luggage due to no staff at their own terminal at Heathrow.

Well over an hour standing waiting around for a case, with no information, after a 14+ hour flight was exactly my expectation of “the world’s favourite airline” (!). Oh wait, newsflash. https://www.timeout.com/uk/news/british-airways-has-been-named-the-worlds-worst-long-haul-airline-for-customers-022625