Notices by Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social)

Foursquare are releasing Foursquare Open Source Places as an open data set, to be updated monthly under the Apache 2.0 license. Pretty big news for the geospatial and location data folks. https://location.foursquare.com/resources/blog/products/foursquare-open-source-places-a-new-foundational-dataset-for-the-geospatial-community/

Yay, the @Mastodon team will have a #FOSDEM stand! We are excited about the #SocialWeb DevRoom, too. https://fosstodon.org/@fosdem/113494067318986494

@sl007 my RubyWorld keynote in Japan next month will talk about this in the context of decentralisation as well. I agree that finding ways to collaborate, and doing so broadly and globally, is very important.

BTW I have my Fediverse Explorer poster from digital.courage ready to hang in my home office now! 👍🏻

Thinking that, if Melon Husk ends up in some govt level role, I'm now more concerned than ever about sovereignty of online information and data.

I'll just leave this here.

https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/09/02/fediverse-for-government-organisations-a-follow-up/

We went deep on data sharing, privacy, location and more on our #podcast this week. https://gamesatwork.biz/2024/10/28/e487-data-privacy-and-you-not/

Experimenting with North (https://north.industries) - imported my 4SQ and Google Maps lists, now seeing what's what.

Meetup.com is so over

Meetup's gone from community king to overpriced ghost town, thanks to Bending Spoons. Enshittification strikes again! Now what?

https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/10/18/meetup-com-is-so-over/

@methoddan @FLOSS_Weekly I hope I didn't go off on too many tangents 🙂

@methoddan @FLOSS_Weekly yes, and I think that's probably a great place for that to happen (in a client app, with the user able to adjust, rather than baked in to every instance).

@methoddan @FLOSS_Weekly Phanpy (https://phanpy.social - PWA) has a catchup feature. There are also Murmel and Fediview, which offer different methods of doing something similar.

My recent podcasting adventures, including an appearance on @FLOSS_Weekly this week discussing the #Mastodon 4.3 release.

https://andypiper.co.uk/2024/10/17/podcasting-updates/

Podcasting with a friend... #plushtodon

If you're missing #OggCamp2024 you can look back at a few highlights (and maybe discover some new folks to follow) via the fediwall I set up for the event -> https://andypiper.url.lol/oggcamp2024

Well, I thought #OggCamp2024 was great. Thanks in particular to the team and crew for making it happen, and thanks to the community for keeping the spirit of #OggCamp alive, and sharing it again this weekend.

My blog is a good way to keep up with what I’m up to, and has links to other places you can find me online between now and OggCamp.Next.

https://andypiper.co.uk

@sam @dansup mostly spam accounts AFAICT - presumably a number of servers with open signups.

Considering some blog migration options. Probably time to get over to a static site generator (aka right back to where I started). I am, however, more than a little concerned about the scale of the migration task.

We posted our monthly @MastodonEngineering team update, for a look at what changes went into the final 4.3 release - thanks @renchap (and the whole team for their work here!) https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/trunk-tidbits-september-2024/

Mastodon 4.3 was shipped today 🎉

I am working on a Trunk & Tidbits post covering last month’s engineering efforts (to post later in the week), and also a post about key changes for developers in 4.3 (likely to be published next week).

@tchambers seems to be a bit of a split in terms of popularity, but your support is appreciated by the folks who worked on that!

The _draft_ stage schedule for #OggCamp has been released (although, of course, the majority of content comes from YOU, the attendees, in the unconference itself). More to come. Got your ticket yet? Join us! https://oggcamp.org/news/schedule/