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The December edition of Trunk & Tidbits is posted.
It was a quieter month in terms of commits due to the holiday period, but some solid progress was made. Plus, the latest stable releases, end-of-life for Mastodon 4.2, and news about #fosdem
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/01/trunk-tidbits-december-2025/
Find Your European Union XMPP Chat Provider!
You can now easily find an XMPP provider based in the European Union:
https://providers.xmpp.net/blog/2026-01-18-eu-providers/
See you at FOSDEM! AW building, Level 1
#chat #messaging #xmpp #jabber #standards #interoperability #decentralization #operators #service #EU #europa #opensource #EuropeanUnion #europe #FOSDEM #Brussels
Did you travel to #FOSDEM by rail this Friday?
No you didn't. Stop lying.
We are running out of mugs, so come quick if you want one! We also have screen printed cotton t-shirts and enamel pins. Building H, level one! #FOSDEM #Merchtodon
My FOSDEM 2025 social web lightning talk is out!
🎉 Elk: A Nimble Client for Mastodon - FOSDEM 2025 | https://ayos.blog/elk-fosdem-2025
Come visit the #Energy devroom at #FOSDEM on Sunday. We have 24 presentation listed, with topics ranging from #GreenIT to #HomeAutomation, #ClimateChange and cool hardware projects like repurposing #EV car batteries https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/energy/
Declarative and Minimalistic Computing at #FOSDEM
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/declarative/
@schmaker and MakerTube are streaming selected rooms from FOSDEM to the Fediverse this weekend! Here are the playlists to the available streams:
➡️ https://makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7b3cnqsfhmW
➡️ https://vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLcKxLLG
Are you missing any room in particular? Please reach out, I'm thinking of adding one or two rooms to the list.
If you are a Peertube admin you can follow these channel handles to promote them on your instance:
➡️ @fosdem
➡️ @fosdem@vhsky.cz
#fosdem #peertube #makertube #fediverse #opensource #foss #live
Just arrived in room H.2215 dedicated to social web. #FOSDEM ! and.. Tooting on the fediverse about it ✌️💫
Interested in the #Fediverse and #SocialWeb but can't be at #FOSDEM? All the talks are livestreaming at https://live.fosdem.org/watch/h2215, come watch!
Emma explains likely next steps to take this modernized admin proof of concept further: feedback, discussions, new feature votes. And funding, to turn this into an official replacement for the built-in admin! #FOSDEM
I earned a badge! BadgeFed @ #FOSDEM 2026 · Supporter issued by BadgeFed on 1/2026. Check it out: https://badgefed.org/grant/badgefedorg_150_12_1c344a6e6e1b171ee03c42405be53d0d
This Saturday (Feb 1) I will give a talk about Elk at FOSDEM 2025 Social Web dev room!
There’s plenty to talk about in the Social Web space, and the line up looks really interesting! Particularly looking forward to hearing about Federation @ Forgejo 😄
Glad to be part of this. See you if you’re there!
Want your fediverse project listed on https://fediverse.info/explore/projects and https://FediDB.org/software ?
Add your details to the CommunityDB repo:
https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB
I will merge and update so they are ready for #FOSDEM ✨
Our #TrunkAndTidbits engineering update for January (also including #FOSDEM) is here - here's what we have been working on so far this year. Includes an update on the #Fediscovery project, and some cool projects from the broader developer ecosystem. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/trunk-tidbits-january-2025/
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Before we left for preschool this morning, my 4-year-old stopped in front of the table where I left my #FOSDEM stickers. She perused them, picked one up and said "I'm giving this to M" (her best friend).
What did she pick?
"Make art, not billionaires".
You should have seen my smile.
Wishing you all a great day!
P.S.: off I go actually make art - aka a video - promoting the Fediverse and criticizing tech oligarchs
Hope you all had an awesome #FOSDEM, we sure did!
All our leaflets gone, many people stopped by to show off their phones or play with ours, and a lot of "wow I really need to get this on my device"
We had some amazing talks too at the FOSS on Mobile devroom, and some outreach by @anjan presenting pmbootstrap in the embedded devroom.
Huge thanks to everyone who helped run the stand and (hopefully) not lose their voices in the process :D
Safe travels and see you next year
30% of feature requests to Django are about the admin! ❤️ Emma from the Django Steering Council presents her work prototyping a new admin at #FOSDEM
@andypiper just said at #FOSDEM that 2 years ago Mastodon had a booth. Last year Fediverse had half a day. This year, there's a FULL TRACK of #fediverse !
THAT is growth! That is EXCITEMENT! That is people spreading this thing. Keep up the amazing work ALL of you!
ALL OF US MAKE THIS WORK!
And I am so grateful to you for it.
Codeberg and Forgejo will have a stand (K5) at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels. Come by and chat with Codeberg and Forgejo contributors.
There'll also be Codeberg and Forgejo stickers. If your Codeberg or Forgejo hosted project has stickers and you're looking for a way to distribute them: Get in touch and we can organise it!