@libreoffice Took a glance how twitter reacted and decided to personally thank you for supporting FOSS.
People talking that there no audience on Mastodon? Lets boost, share and like and show how many different flavours of Fediverse exists!
Again thank you for giving option to ditch MS office and have portable options which helped me not once.

@hydropsyche @urlyman
Considering myself as reply guy as I only get ideas from other messages rather than shouting in void. Personal note is not talked about a lot which also might mean people never use it which as you pointed out, can give first time warning for your future self how to deal with x person instead of relying on memory.

Never found twitter usefulness so never was attached personally myself, moved from reddit to Mastodon and then explored whole Fediverse and found it attractive.
Bluesky showing up late also was factor of "why bother, Fediverse not perfect but I like the appeal for growth".

What really concerning for me, that academic side didn't lean on Fediverse being in between closed spaces (twitter/Bluesky) and going anonymous comments. Self published blog with ActivityPub regardless of jankiness still a good opportunity to have people interact with your content while having history behind accounts, as well relieving burden of registration/holding account information/dealing with bot network registration and having semi anonymous data gathering.

We all part of algorithm be it twitter, Bluesky or google for independent blogs, so why bother with combination of social media+ Google when you can only appeal to Google + Fediverse instead?

@aks I am guilty myself of not thanking FOSS developers or just random guide makers. Being boy who only knows how to troubleshoot stuff on windows and installing/reinstalling stuff and having task to get Freebsd server up...
Like even if you have zero coding experience, there are guides that help you to do everything you need to do step by step, all lines of codes. I might never need it now after years of not touching Freebsd, but still someone done the hard part explaining me what to do.
Like lots of stuff I done from reinstall of Windows to installing programs.

I am far off from being digitally independent, android phone, win10, google mail, several chat programs because family uses them... But setting up my own old pc with Yunohost and having personal server makes me really appreciate all FOSS out there. Can't setup personal email with my provider but translation,some file hosting and few other good quality of live services. Will slowly move to gaming Linux as well when win10 is absolete but it's a slow process. Looking at all recent news, I am more and more wary about personal and juridical information getting leaked, especially with win11 cloud saving and later AI integration.

One FOSS developer was really happy getting email that says thanks for making x.
We should give more thanks for people who makes our lives for better.