My heart goes out to xz. A single maintainer, who was clearly in a rough place with mental health, screaming out to the world for some help and additional contributions, and somebody shows up wanting to help. Could you imagine how happy that maintainer was? They were no longer alone.

And it turns out the only reason somebody wanted to help them was nefarious. I can’t imagine how they feel right now as everyone is blaming them. I hope they’re ok.

I have so many Owncast things in the roadmap to build that I know people are waiting for. But in the six months or so, I've had just enough of a solid stream of bug fixes, small tweaks, and smaller quality of life improvements coming in that I never get a chance to sit down and work on the big features like I used to.

I know nobody is pushing me, but I'm pushing me. I want to build cool shit to solve the challenges streamers have. Every day I'm like "ugh, if I could just give you X! Some day you'll see!".

I'm trying hard to get from under this, and pushing myself harder to get through the smaller updates. I'm also realistic that those things don't stop coming in, but things happen in waves, and I'm sure I'll be able to focus on the big things soon.

The recent meeting of the Social Web Incubator Community Group led to a lot of discussion around how we can collectively assist and improve the experience around building for the #Fediverse using #ActivityPub and related protocols. One suggestion that excited people was for Fediverse developers to convene around the real-world challenges around implementation.

We hope to take advantage of this momentum by getting together to discuss how we might all assist each other, build documentation, tooling, testing and education resources a la the Mozilla Developer Network.

If your project is big or small, new or old, or you're thinking of building something on the Fediverse I urge you to be represented at this call. Mark your calendar.

April 10th 15:00 UTC 8:00am Pacific
Details: https://events.nixnet.services/events/92296854-651d-417f-a732-ea51ea94ac12

/cc @fedidevs

If you could change one thing in the history of the internet that would have impacted the trajectory that led us to this point, what would it be?

For me I think it would have been the development of the Facebook “like” button that people would put on every page. That felt like a turning point from Facebook being a quaint collection of friends and posts to expanding out and focusing on engagement and data collection outside of just their platform.