Notices by Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)

Blog post: I've joined the FediForum Advisory Board.

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/05/07/fediforum-advisory-board/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

I am honoured to be part of a broad group of folks helping to keep @fediforum - and the #Fediverse as a whole - move forward. Looking forward to our next event, and to learning what people are building together!
https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/114462384030476115

Just shared my experience at Flipboard's Fediverse House at SXSW in Austin. I was honoured to join @miaq panel discussing community building on the open social web. Check out the video of our discussion. #fediverse

https://andypiper.co.uk/2025/05/01/fediverse-house-at-sxsw-2025/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

The current episode of the Roaring Elephant #podcast is an interesting start to a discussion about ethics and AI and algorithms. https://episodes.fm/aHR0cHM6Ly9yb2FyaW5nZWxlcGhhbnQub3JnL2ZlZWQvcG9kY2FzdC8/episode/aHR0cHM6Ly9yb2FyaW5nZWxlcGhhbnQub3JnLz9wPTQ1NzI

Question: for web site metrics, what is a sound, open source, privacy-respecting option? goal is to be able to see which pages are hit, blog stats etc, that's all. Any views on e.g. Umami vs Matomo vs Offen (or alternatives)? 🤔

(for a hosted solution, a plan for non-profit usage would be good)

@bjoernsta @eilah_tan that book by @ntnsndr is an excellent read, incidentally.

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