A great talk so far from the @Mastodon team here at #FOSDEM #FOSDEM26 On how the project is being structured and how it's building communities and bridges.
A real highlight on being resilient and self reliant something that I think is likely to be a theme this weekend.
Also really interesting to see the shift from depending on off the shelf commercial products to those they can self host.
Kudos @andypiper and @haubles for an awesome talk!
Haven't had the best start to my #Fosdem travels. My uber took a silly route to my house so I ended up missing my train by about 30 seconds.
Turns out booking an advanced single and allowing 30 mins to get to the station isn't enough and I'm now a lovely £60 out of pocket to get the next train despite my original (first class) return being £80.
This is why I hate the trains in the UK.
I'm planning to be at #FOSDEM this time next week so if there you are planning to be there and would like to catch up please do drop me a message.
I'm also planning to be in Brussels for a couple of days after FOSDEM to be able to meet with folks and catch up with folks that might not has as much time during the event itself but do have time in the week so let me know if you'd like to catch up :)
After missing the last 2 years of FOSDEM due to forgetting about it and poor planning on my part I'm really excited to be spending this weekend actually organising my stuff ready to go!
Ready for my first talk of the day.
This time with the image I meant to include but had hit send before the upload finished 😂
Today is not my day.
While the travel to Brussels for #FOSDEM has been mostly okay other than missing my first train this morning, I wasn't expecting needing to replace my apple watch to be one of the problems I had today.
Thankfully it's still under apple care coverage so hoping they can sort me out with a repair / replacement pretty quickly!
Not far from Brussels now, excited to have a chill afternoon before what I think is going to be a busy #FOSDEM - Tomorrow looks like it's got a lot of talks and sessions that I'm hoping to attend with Sunday currently looking slightly more relaxed!
Made it to #Brussels for #FOSDEM after a pretty good train ride. Went much quicker than flights of a significantly shorter duration.
Going to enjoy a nice sprite now while the hotel preps the room and then I'm going to have a bit of a relax. Maybe a mooch around the area after almost trapping myself in a shopping mall by coming out the wrong metro exit 😂😂
An absolutely awesome talk from @benpate and highlighting just how early we all are in the journey of the Fediverse as a whole.
The LOLA data portability standard from W3C sounds really awesome and I really hope we see this sort of standard adopted across the fedi as it helps solve one of the bigger pain points where your posts are stuck on the instance you write it on.
There's a whole load of other really good points that again continue to align with the sorts of feedback I see regularly about "why fedi will never be mainstream" and the more talks I'm listening to today, the more confident I am things will become more mainstream and easier to adopt for those new to the network.