I'm doing a bit of a mini-Western Canada book tour for "Move Slowly and Build Bridges!" I'm talking in Edmonton and Burnaby, BC. Maybe I'll see some of you at one of these events! https://libcal.macewan.ca/event/3981088 […]

One of my favourite treats in the Netherlands and Belgium is ontbijtkoek. It's a spicy sweet breakfast cake that I usually eat toasted with butter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontbijtkoek

Do a Zydeco Superbowl halftime show entirely in Cajun French next year, cowards

Tim Bray (@timbray) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says: My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate

@ok hello?

All the talk about followers-only posting made me realize I really needed to upgrade prodromou.pub. It was on Mastodon 4.2, 3 versions behind. It took a while, but it's now up to the latest 4.5.x version.

Alberta is the Donbas.

It feels like a real sweet spot that I'm notable enough to have my name appear multiple times in a Wikipedia search but not notable enough to appear at all in an Epstein files search.

I'm home in Montreal for just a few days. I'm a guest for a class on tech policy in Princeton on Thursday, and I'm going to visit family in New Jersey over the weekend.

Oh! This looks good! And with an all-star roster including @evan and @pluralistic ! https://mastodon.social/@box464/116022035776088051 #mastodon #fediverse

It's funny to see people joining Substack in 2026 and saying "I am reluctantly beginning a Substack since it's now clearly the only way to make money as a writer. Someone please help me find the check box in the account settings to accept my $250,000/year revenue guarantee from Substack like […]

@evan 2 Devil 2 Prada

The Devil Wears Prada 2: The Devil Still Wears Prada

I'm on the airplane home from London to Montreal. We've got the Social Web Community Group meeting in about 36 minutes. I paid for the extra extra extra bandwidth package for Internet access, but I'm still worried about having good reception for a call. I guess we'll see!

At NDP conventions, it's customary to refer to the delegates as brothers and sisters; Conservatives don't do that, but the feeling exists. If you have an interest in politics, think seriously about going to a convention. 5/n

Words that came out of my mouth just now: "Open Source is not a magic wand that allows you to not spend money on software development."

I'm irritated that I caught up with @kevinmarks.com tonight and got personal updates from 2017. I need to check in with interesting people more often than once per decade!

#ProtocolsForPublishers @kevinmarks.com: I'm going to be live skeeting the Protocols for Publishers talks at Newspeak House tonight https://luma.com/2d2s26jg

Hey, Fediverse friends. If you have been DMed by a random angry person asking you for favours related to me or the Social Web Foundation, please let me know by DM. The same person is doing it to others in the Fediverse. I'd like to get it to stop. I know that dealing with toxic behaviour is […]

@evan the potential of AP to provide #democracyofreach for even journalists like @mondoweiss is so important.

I made it to London for #protocolsforpublishers . If you're here too, let me know.

I'll be at @team tonight and tomorrow in London. If you want to talk about the open standard social networking protocol, ActivityPub, and how publishers are using it right now for permissionless social publishing, please come say hello. https://protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026/

I am now removing the bruh from Brussels. Tot siens et à bientôt, ssels.

I forgot I had this great playlist on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2CKvcJVm4tdR7GbkfX3BLI?si=rAZcmvExRZSMIyhZkrayOg

@ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty can someone come speak at https://fedimtl.ca/ ?

Are you trying to tell me that this fallacy costs as much as the Sun?!?!?

The #SocialWeb track at #FOSDEM kicked off with a talk by @pfefferle#socialweb#fosdemhat covered WordPress and a "single click" philosophy to set up an ActivityPub instance. Matthias also talked about how blogs and similar sites can broaden the reach of the open social web - this was one of the themes of the […]

I’m so bothered by all of the people who are supposedly on the ‘good’ side who use these things against their political opponents: - making fun of people’s accents (make fuck, get green card is not funny even if you are mocking a horrible person) - making fun of people’s weight - making fun of […]

It was great to see fantastic people at @offline today, and thank you for listening my talk! If you'd like to get my deck, here it is: _Fedify: Building ActivityPub servers without the pain_. Huge thanks @liaizon for organizing this event!

My home solar array installation is so efficient that I've actually started selling surplus power back to the Sun

A song for everyone who escaped the time loop https://open.spotify.com/track/19O7xUdoajxjIqeB8JeHoW?si=uoP5Xh-dRFG46-uSP8sifg

I came to Köln for the day on a lark and randomly sat next to Leslie Hawthorn at a crowded cafe. It's a good day!

I just heard about Plant Baby Plant on the Plant People podcast. It's Robin Wall Kimmerer's project tying gardening to biodiversity activism. It looks great. #nativeplants https://plantbabyplant.com/

I've been in Europe for almost a week and I keep waking up at 3AM. It's not helped that I have had deadlines to meet every single day, so that I've been doing work or homework during these late night sessions. And I've also been napping during the afternoons. I'm sure I'll get on a […]

An ETA is a visa.

The #fosdem talk from @haubles and myself about Mastodon’s upcoming community governance plans; our vision, mission and values; and updates to the server recommendations, is now available to watch. I was honoured to be asked to co-present this session More to come on all of these topics over […]

The 1st FediForum un-workshop is a month from today! Are you registered yet? In this un-workshop, we'll try to figure out together what the best strategies and tactics are to grow the Open Social Web, based on short position statements that people submit when registering […]

Then put your little hand in mine There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb

A question from the GitHub fringe at #fosdem. Do you count people who write detailed and useful bug report as contributors? Would you list a bug reporter in your contributors / credits? Why? Why not?

Hey, Fediverse friends. If you have been DMed by a random angry person asking you for favours related to me or the Social Web Foundation, please let me know by DM. The same person is doing it to others in the Fediverse. I'd like to get it to stop. I know that dealing with toxic behaviour is […]

Listening to Elvis Costello's "Tramp the Dirt Down" this morning; his late-80s fantasy of stomping on the grave of Margaret Thatcher. I realized that I'm going to London this week and could actually go do this myself. It would be a nice field trip. Sadly, it looks like the Iron Lady foiled […]

Radio Free Europe, but in the other direction this time

I'm #stillinbrussels. I had planned to take an extra day for our first in-person meeting of the Social Web Working Group, but that fell through. Which is good, because I have a tonne of homework to do for Network Science. Tomorrow I'm free and I'm going to Antwerp for a day trip, then off to […]

#socialwebfosdem if you're out in Brussels tonight, try to pass through À la Bécasse. I'll be there around 9 or 10. Not a scheduled or organized event; just a slightly higher probability of running into people from the Fediverse. Warning: it can get crowded! #fosdem2026

Great panel in the (packed) EU Policy dev room on Fediverse and the DSA focusing on how the Fediverse is stepping up to decentralise and democratise social media - and bringing it out of the shadow of US tech behemoths. #fosdem

We are having a great time at #fosdem and we only have three enamel “Live Laugh Federate” pins left! (Two just got sold!)

@pfefferle Here's the `ap` cli for the ActivityPub API. It's one of the example apps from my book. https://github.com/evanp/ap

There are only a few hours left to submit a proposal to the NLNet Open Social Fund. It's an easy proposal process! #fosdem2026 #socialwebfosdem #activitypub #socialweb https://nlnet.nl/opensocial/

The first #fosdem Local First dev room is about to start! I’m running the Q&A in the room and chat for the first half of the day. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/track/local-first/ #localfirst #fosdem2026 #fosdem26

There is a BOF session today on Fediverse events. I think it would make a lot of sense to have a Task Force of the Social Web Community Group focused on the Event schema in #activitypub. https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/N98KEF-shaping_the_future_of_events_and_calendars_in_the_fediverse/