Cofio Aberfan. I, like many here, had family that raced to the village to help dig. Growing up, any time a car trip took us past the village, the whole car would be silent. The event is considered one of the worst mining disasters in British history and was entirely preventable. Concerns about the tip were ignored by the National Coal Board. If you'd like to learn more, here's a BCC documentary "Surviving Aberfan"

👋 If you can see this toot you are on the #Fediverse enjoying #BetterSocialMedia How flippin' awesome is that!? In one or two sentences, tell me one thing that stands out for you personally, one of the reasons you enjoy being here. And if you're ok with me using your answer in promotional material to get more people here, add the tag #TellEveryone 📢

@Hetzner now listed on https://jaz.co.uk/projects/orgs-using-ap? Do you know a company or organisation running their own Fediverse service? let me know!

I'll be updating https://jaz.co.uk/projects/orgs-using-ap/ - which is a database of companies and organisation self-hosting (as in, on their own domain) an ActivityPub service of any kind. if you know of any, please let me know.

It's #FediForumFriday so I'll point out I and others will be presenting at a dedicated Fediverse track with twelve (!) presentations in one day at #SFSCon in November. Hopefully our attendance will spur SFSCon into creating an account somewhere Fediversal... You can review the Fediverse track at

SFSCON

2025 - SFSCON

A 2-day festival on Friday, 7th November and Saturday, 8th November 2025 Thank you for being part of SFSCON 2025! With 1,120 attendees, over 150 sp...

(choose Fediverse in the drop down)

Oh. My. Goodness. I'm giving a talk in November at #SFSCon about building Tŵt Cymru, and I was just adding the session to my calendar when I realised... It's on #DefaidodonDay #DyddDefaidodon !!! I am now going to have to figure out how to incorporate the hashtag into the presentation, and I expect everyone to pile in with their #SheepOfMastodon on the day. I think I'll do a grand finale and load the FediWall up on a screen, assuming I have a screen behind me.

SFSCON

Hiraeth and Hashtags: Building a Bilingual Community on the Fediverse - SFSCON

SFSCON Talk

Um, hello. As long as it's weeds you're eating, I'm ok with it.

Poked my head into a random tinned fish shop in #Lisboa and saw this sign (a la

Tŵt Cymru | Toot Wales

jaz :twt: :wales_flag: (@jaz@toot.wales)

Attached: 1 image 🐟 Idle new business thought for the day: Seafood restaurant called "Sofishticated" and all menu items are terrible puns. So...

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Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on my latest blog post, it's been really invigorating to hear from folks. I've added a "further reading" section at the bottom as I think there's plenty of great conversation about this topic and I'm happy to add more: https://jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-fediverses/ In my next post I'll talk about the safety issues that come with connecting social spaces.

New blog post: https://jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-fediverses