Post by @stefano@bsd.cafe
Today is a special day! It is the BSD Cafe's birthday!
Exactly three years ago today, I was rather timidly announcing this project to the world. It was an idea that had already been in my mind for some time, but had not yet become reality.
Three years later, I am proud to say that the BSD Cafe is sailing at full speed towards the uncertain horizons of the modern world.
We are here to talk about BSD, Open Source, projects, conferences, freedom, pizza and tiramisu, but above all about passions, interests, discoveries and knowledge. We are here among friends who share interests and passions, without geography or borders, apart from those defined by mutual respect.
Your Barista is more energised than ever.
During the past year, he had to retire one of the services, BlendIT, our Lemmy instance, but he also added several new ones: Journal, based on WordPress, Billboard, running on NodeBB, the Delta Chat relay, and more.
He also had to withdraw from BSDCan, with enormous regret, but he is now ready for EuroBSDCon. And for other new things that will gradually follow.
For example, here is a small preview: I have been experimenting with MeshCore.
My dream? One or more BSD Cafe services that do not use the Internet at all. I already have a few ideas, so I shall not disclose anything more for now 馃槈
And I will never grow tired of repeating that the BSD Cafe is a success because of you.
I am just the Barista, but a place like this is nothing without the friends sitting at the bar. And the friends of this bar are wonderful people who, every day, help make my days calmer, happier and more interesting.
So thank you for these three years, and thank you for being here.
We shall continue sailing together towards the future, with smiles on our faces and passion in our hearts.
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@ricardo@bsd.cafe
@stefano
Happy birthday to the BSD cafe, and a big Thank You Stefano for creating and running it! 馃帀
I have no idea how and when, but you appeared on my radar pretty soon after I'd joined the fediverse, which was also in 2023. So I've been following the bsd cafe adventures almost from the beginning and now I'm happy and proud to be a small part of it, too.
I hope you get some Tiramisu today to celebrate ;)
@stefano happy birthday BSD Cafe 馃巿馃帀馃崟馃崟馃崟
Three years of making me subliminally associate BSD with pictures of pizza and tiramisu have finally weakened my defences, and I am now running FreeBSD!
Thank you to the Barista for running all these amazing services (many of which I should make better use of).
@stefano Happy Birthday BSD Cafe! I'm spending the day off from work and configuring a home network FreeBSD server and having fun with it. I wonder if there is pizza in my future.... 馃
@stefano Congratulations Stefano! Thank you for providing the infrastructure for this great community.
@stefano Mille grazie! Here is to smooth sailing for many more years! Cheers to a great barista and don鈥檛 forget to pour yourself a celebratory drink or serve yourself a nice treat 馃コ
@stefano Thanks a lot for the initiative and the people it brought along with it. As a mostly non-bsd'er (for now) I really appreciate the conversation and keep lurking around. Exemplary for what social media should be and can bring.
@stefano Hooray! 馃帀
The knowledge you share and the good cheer you spread far and wide are appreciated.
@stefano congratulations, and many thanks for building such a nice community. I am regularly inspired the enthusiastic members and have learned so much.
Forza BSD!
@stefano
E la nave va!
Congratulations Signore Barista!
You've created one of the best places in the fediverse.
@stefano feliz cumplea帽os! It's been great seeing BSDCafe grow these past few years.
May it continue sailing further and further!