@andypiper@macaw.social ah I was asking about them as you were leaving HSBXL! Next time. It's pretty cost prohibitive to ship anything to Canada... although letter mail maybe not...

@harmonicarichard@techhub.social Immich was present and actually presented a talk! I did not realize and missed it but I am looking forward to watching the recording.

@douginamug@mastodon.xyz thank you for the kind words! I wasn't sure how technical I should get, but the crowd was enthusiastic and followed along amazingly well considering the late hour. I enjoy talking about the developer experience on the open social web, and I'd love to continue to do so.

@evan@cosocial.ca might I suggest this picture be saved for posterity (I selfishly ask, because I'm in it)? The pic of the other federated social web meetup from way back, that @liaizon@social.wake.st said seemed like the spiritual precursor to this year's FOSDEM, was so cool! Wild to see, I wondered if someone could do a "where are they now" thing

@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!

@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.