Notices by Andy Piper (andypiper@macaw.social), page 8

I love the whimsy of these apps, and the fact that Mastodon’s API and openness supports the ability to create them. Looking at a community-contributed patch to get them added to the website, too. #retrocomputing #mastodonAPI https://wedistribute.org/2023/07/mastodon-retro-clients/

Welcome, new followers, to the #fediverse (and, sorry that a billionaire idiot is burning down Twitter). This is a pretty nice place, come share it with us!

Well now, fastmail seems to be struggling this morning.

@tchambers 👀 👍🏻

I would *love* it if @pixelfed supported embeds!

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/110571228491732285

In case you’re not aware - I’m working with the Mastodon team on #DevRel and community 🚀

If you’re building a client on the #MastodonAPI I would love to get connected and help you stay up-to-date. Drop me a line andy@joinmastodon.org and let me know what you’re working on! 🙏🏻

(pls boost for reach / tell the devs of your fave apps)

@thomasfuchs do I need to guess where that's paraphrased from... 🤦🏻

This browser extension adds a bunch of ease-of-use and other features to Mastodon across the web - I have it synced across Chrome installs. https://social.jaredzimmerman.com/@jaredzimmerman/110437008165787872

Sad that my friends building apps on Twitter got cut off from the API - I spent a lot of time working to keep that API alive - but, happy to see folks like Tapbots here building on #mastodonapi https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texas-tweetbot-developers-fighting-twitter/

👋🏻 so you may have read (and I’m excited to share!) that I’ll be helping @Gargron and the team with the developer community and #MastodonAPI space.

Finishing up a busy weekend showing completely-unrelated things at #WimbledonArtFair - but I’ll have more to post about this soon… 😊

Enjoyed talking about the importance of contributing to #OpenSource at the @openuk meet-up this evening - some great questions and conversations before and after.

Thinking about the #MastodonAPI specifically… what are some of the more interesting projects you’ve seen that use it? Looking to discover - and amplify - more cool stuff 👀

(boosts for reach appreciated!)

The inaugural Fediverse Developer Network call went well today (shout out @gabek for wrangling us!).

I'd like to share some of my thinking about how the #Fediverse developer ecosystem could be considered and organised.

/cc @fedidevs @fediforum @fediversedevelopers

https://dev.to/andypiper/thoughts-around-fediverse-developer-communities-cb6

particularly valuable quote in there from @nilay_patel "all the action is on Mastodon. That is where the app developers are, the platform is accelerating, and the underlying fediverse boundaries are growing".

This, to me, is absolutely key. Many of the things that made Twitter, Twitter, came from the developer ecosystem - having a vibrant ecosystem around #ActivityPub, #MastodonAPI and #Pixelfed and others can be instrumental for future growth and diversification of the communities.

Watching @tchambers (and team) doing some super interesting and informative work on the growth of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon - this looks extremely interesting, and looks to become a quarterly update ? (also, if you're interested in this space, follow him!) https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/109993434359560479

Well here’s another interesting new participant in the #Fediverse - Flipboard is… on board. https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/28/flipboard-joins-the-fediverse-with-a-mastodon-integration-and-community-plans-for-activitypub/

@ttomoko777 ?

I love the ability to follow hashtags in Mastodon v4, but it's annoying that there's no UI to show you what you followed.

Quick #MastodonAPI CLI recipe to check them back:

curl --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" $INSTANCE/api/v1/followed_tags | jq '.[] | .name'

It would be lovely if some of the third party apps would add these somewhere in the UI... ?

Just posted: A ? opportunity for developers #MastodonAPI (primarily about embedding content on the web, but other things too) https://dev.to/andypiper/a-opportunity-for-developers-1ee4

Well, my teaching skills have already been in strong demand, since The Ending - fun to help folks to grok new tools and concepts! ???