Notices by Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social), page 6

The final #Merchtodon mug has been sold! #FOSDEM @Mastodon

That was fun! I think the @Mastodon table at #FOSDEM was the busiest I’ve experienced at an event for a long time - so great to hear from people that use the platform every day! The team enjoyed the chance to meet you - thanks for coming by! More #Merchtodon tomorrow… #WhoIsJohnMastodon

I set up a fediwall to aggregate FOSDEM posts https://andypiper.url.lol/fosdemwall

Off to Brussels today - I'll be helping to run Team @Mastodon stand at #FOSDEM this weekend, and we are looking forward to meeting the community! Come buy some nice merch to support the project 😊

Then, a dash back to London for #StateOfOpenCon24 - I've spent the past 6 weeks working with @openuk team as speaker liaison for nearly 200 amazing speakers - it is going to be a busy and rewarding week.

After that... What's next? My freelance time opens up again. Let's work together? 👀

@dansup @fedidb yes, happy 2024! Hey I'm definitely willing to help anything good for the #fediverse like this, count me in if I'm a trusted folk 🙂 I've been messing more with Postmarks and getting more interested in how things fit together, which is why I asked!

Hi @dansup how does a project get a "full" listing on @fedidb vs a "stub" one? Also, when does a project qualify for inclusion? not sure if the site source is available?

I uploaded the beginnings of a browser extension for #postmarks (should be ok in Chromium-based browsers, evidently FF has an opinion on service workers vs backgrounds script right now). Unpackaged so far. https://github.com/andypiper/postmarks-ext

@shoq @J12t @tchambers @fediforum FWIW I firmly “+1” the opinions expressed here on Johannes’ passion for the Fediverse - really appreciate him bringing #Fediforum together.

A phrase I heard and loved when I was in a committee room in the UK Parliament this evening, for an Open Source event - “Open Source is the Right to Repair, for software.” 👏🏻 such a perfect way of describing it, I wish I'd been the one to say it!

With the news that Meetup.com has been swallowed up by Bending Spoons (with a track record of strip mining good tools to their doom), a #fediverse alternative to explore is Mobilizon @mobilizon https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

I love niche projects like this - using a Kindle Scribe to update a Mastodon status #MastodonAPI #coding https://shanedowling.com/kindle-scribe-to-mastodon.html

Enjoyed listening to the excellent and thoughtful @tchambers talk with @mike 🎧 #dotsocial #podcast #fediverse https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/tim-chambers

New #podcast episode alert! @gamesatwork_biz episode 448 is available now. https://gamesatwork.biz/2024/01/08/e448-bricks-falling-and-cars/

What a day. 😣

Why were people taking that stuff, again? Oh, that’s right. So the headline should be, Trump did this. https://www.politico.eu/article/hydroxychloroquine-could-have-caused-17000-deaths-during-covid-study-finds/

What I worked on with Mastodon in 2023.

http://andypiper.co.uk/2023/12/27/six-and-a-bit-months-on-team-mastodon/

@tokyo_0 @registrert I’m not aware of updates on that and I’m on holiday this week - I’ll drop the link to a couple of people for reference but I imagine a lot of folks are going to be taking a break right now; maybe have another prod in a week or so :-)

I follow a number of folks on Substack, and several of them are friends; but I think I'm going to unsubscribe from their newsletters. I might email them and cc: the Substack leads to explain why. Not sure whether it will make any difference (nothing else has done), but it feels like the right thing to do.

This is a really good post about the potential of the #Fediverse and sums up why I feel good about spending a lot of my time working on Mastodon this year.

https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub

@KevinMarks @evan “build on” or “import from”?