Notices by Paul Campbell (paulca@mastodon.social)

Pretty stoked to have @anildash back at an event I'm involved in. Anil continues to inspire me, 25 years since his first blog post. And he's going to sponsor a reciprocal speaker at This Next Thing. Yes!

https://2024.thisnextthing.com/posts/our-next-headline-announcement-anil-dash

@thomasfuchs Yeah, walking around I can see it’s definitely a bit aesthetically challenged. Vienna it is not.

A most spectacular sunset over Düsseldorf

@thomasfuchs

@thomasfuchs Gorgeous! You made it so … engaging.

@thomasfuchs git nacht

git pushy

Folks, I do believe Mastodon has won the “what’s next for the internet?” race.

This is so, so exciting. It’s “early days” in the true sense, not like crypto, because so many folks are _already_ sharing value. Not a token to be seen.

This is all of the benefits that acolytes talked about with crypto (distributed, shared ownership), without the speculation, or misguided expectation of future “killer app”.

This is a moment. A breath of fresh air.

It’s not perfect, and it is early days, but as I near 40, I’ve lived through a few inflection points like this. You feel it in your gut.

Further, Mastodon is the thing that proves the value first, with federation, ActivityPub etc providing the foundation.

And then this surge of apps providing a layer of user experience I’ve never seen in open source before.

It’s a new dawn. This realisation brought to you by my internet friends liking a picture I shared of my waffles and coffee.

@bastianallgeier It’s sort of weird, because federation / distributed apps is still a hard thing to understand. I’m not sure I fully understand how it actually works. But the fact that it does work, and we’re using it already, is akin to magic.

Let’s hope that the shortcomings improve over time (onboarding, DMs, the QT issue, better management of popular toots)