Today was a great set of meetings and discussions, moving the #Fediverse forward. Nice to reconnect after too long with @chrismessina - and to meet @snarfed.org @J12t @anca @frozencanuck in person, lots more connections to make tomorrow. It is an exciting time in the #ActivityPub and #MastodonAPI ecosystem!

Our #Fediforum brainstorming session for the Fediverse Developer Network #fedidevs
got a shout-out in The New Stack! /cc @J12t https://thenewstack.io/fediforum-showcases-new-fediverse-apps-and-developer-network/

What have you done with the #Mastodon stickers that you picked up at #FOSDEM? We'd love to hear / see! #poll

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

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!

What I worked on with Mastodon in 2023.

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

I like this approach, and hope more organisations adopt it. https://www.xlast.org/

Does anyone in my network have technical or product contacts at SquareSpace they could connect me with? (boost for viz please!)

Excited to announce that the @Mastodon project will have a stand at #FOSDEM2024 ... February this year was my first time at #FOSDEM, and this time I'll be there with a project I support! Looking forward to it. https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-accepted-stands-fosdem-2024/

Mastodon 4.2 on Product Hunt, go upvote us! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/mastodon-4-2

I’ll be leading a #Fediverse 101 session about Mastodon and more at the #DevRelCon unconference this morning.

I attended the first #FediForum - it was a good, useful experience to learn more about the various projects collaborating through #ActivityPub. I’m going to be on vacation this second time so I will unfortunately not be there, but, I recommend it to #Fediverse developers - they have tickets at more accessible price points. I look forward to hearing about outcomes and catching up on the notes when I’m back! https://mastodon.social/@fediforum/111019815056382897

The #Mastodon 4.2.0-beta1 is available for testing, and there’s a lot of good stuff inside - it is also a great time to get involved and contribute to our translations project! More info and a link to CrowdIn here -> https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#translations

Nice to see some of the Reddit app developers switch over to the #Fediverse https://www.androidpolice.com/sync-back-not-a-reddit-app-anymore/

In a thoroughly timely move, I’m re-upping this post thinking about the future of #DevRel in a heterogenous world of social platforms. Apropos of, I dunno, something… let’s call it “X”. https://macaw.social/@andypiper/109930971760423920

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/

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)

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… 😊