@j12t@j12t.social what I loved most about this year's FOSDEM was the camaraderie shown by everybody. I told my wife, who isn't plugged into the open social web (yet!) that I was constantly networking, and while that is technically what you would call it, what it really was was a purely organic gathering of like minded individuals, who have never met in real life, who had instant rapport because of the shared values inherent to the fediverse. As the fediverse grows, we'll see this kind of phenomenon happen less and less (see "Eternal September"), but we're at the early stage of the social web where these kinds of things can happen, and when it does, it's amazing. "Networking" at conferences is usually shaking hands and exchanging business cards, and then walking away never to hear from them again.

@j12t@j12t.social yesterday there was a vendor selling coffee just inside Ud (or maybe it was Ua)... best of luck in your side quest to get caffeinated.

@reiver@mastodon.social that would be me! I was poking fun a bit at @dave@upp2.com because Fediscovery is an ambitious solution to one of the fediverse's "hard problems". Why not feature creep some more while I'm there? hah! The full gist of the question was... "the broad use-case of fediscovery would be to try to achieve some sort of global search, where anything can be found, but could there be a use-case where someone could use the Fediscovery FASP to build a domain-specific search provider, e.g. science-based, meme-based, etc.?" I'll be speaking more about those "hard problems" tonight at the Social Web After-Hours event at HSBXL. Will you be there? I'd love to say hello!

@tobias @kde and we missed our connection in Cologne due to a regional train being severely delayed

@kde @nightrose @europeanOSacademy Congrats Lydia 🤩And now I know that the secret thing on Thursday is

@evan@cosocial.ca I love how much happens around FOSDEM! The conference is literally two days and so many people are going 2-3 days in advance wow.