Three years ago today, we opened the doors to our corner of the Fediverse. 💙

What started as an idea has grown into a friendly space for good conversations, smart humor, and authentic interactions. It’s been amazing watching this community grow with all of you.

Thank you to everyone who’s shared, posted, and made Vivaldi Social part of their online space. You’ve helped shape this community into what it is today.

Here’s to everyone who’s been part of it, and to all the new voices we’ll meet along the way.

Happy 3rd birthday, Vivaldi Social! 🎉

- Team Vivaldi

#VivaldiSocial #Fediverse #Mastodon #Community

💪🏾 Health equity in action.

🗣️Yesterday was the first time teaching a free bilingual Strength and Power Class for Older Adults at La Alianza Hispana in Boston.

❤️I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to give back to an organization that supported my family years ago and continues to uplift our community.

#Boston #Healthyaging #nonprofit #seniors #America #Latinos #fitness #longevity #Community #healthequity #hiit #groupfitness #hispanic #immigration #strongertogether

Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history

Three years ago today, we opened the doors to our corner of the Fediverse. 💙

What started as an idea has grown into a friendly space for good conversations, smart humor, and authentic interactions. It’s been amazing watching this community grow with all of you.

Thank you to everyone who’s shared, posted, and made Vivaldi Social part of their online space. You’ve helped shape this community into what it is today.

Here’s to everyone who’s been part of it, and to all the new voices we’ll meet along the way.

Happy 3rd birthday, Vivaldi Social! 🎉

- Team Vivaldi

#VivaldiSocial #Fediverse #Mastodon #Community

@stefano @ricardo the article mentioned the FreeBSD subreddit and The FreeBSD Forums.

Yorick Peterse shared his post in the sub, where it was very well-received. Pictured: insights that are not visible to the public (I very rarely share such things, doing so seems harmless on this occasion).

No mention of Discord, Twitter, or X.

Also pictured: the wiki for FreeBSD Discord very recently cautioned that the FreeBSD Community Code of Conduct can not be enforced. I do not imagine that this caution relates to any recent misconduct there …

<https://www.freebsd.org/internal/code-of-conduct/>

<https://wiki.freebsd.org/Discord/DiscordServer>

<https://yorickpeterse.com/>

#FreeBSD #Reddit #forums #Discord #community #conduct #misconduct

Digital Elevation Models, Old Maps, And Cultural Heritage—Geospatial Assets For The Digital Humanities
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1507385 <-- shared paper
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #water #hydrography #remotesensing #earthobservation #landscape #humanimpacts #landforms #DEM #elevation #LiDAR #oldmaps #historicmaps #culture #society #infrastructure #community #change #DigitalHumanities #geography #cartography #environment #culturalheritage #Nederlands #LingeRiver #engineering #precisionmapping #understanding #history

Aside from Jails, what is your go-to, must-have feature in the FreeBSD ecosystem?

Is it ZFS? The PF firewall? Maybe Capsicum?

Let us know what you can't live without in the comments!

#FreeBSD #Community #TechPoll #BastilleBSD

All Praise to the Lunch Ladies

https://bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-12/all-praise-to-the-lunch-ladies

#HackerNews #LunchLadies #FoodCulture #Community #Appreciation #SchoolLunches

Gratitude and the Gift of #Health✨

🗣️Today marked a personal milestone: my first time teaching a free bilingual Strength and Power Class for Older Adults at La Alianza Hispana in #Boston.

🎯I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to give back to an organization that supported my family years ago and continues to uplift our #community.

👟More to come, because #healthequity begins with access—and movement is for everyone.

¡Pa’lante!🇺🇸🇩🇴

#latinos #hispanic #immigrants #seniors #exercise #diversity

📣 Age Is Just a Number!

Today I had the privilege of leading my third SPARTA Strength Class in partnership with Mystic Valley Elder Services at the Heritage House in Malden, MA! 💪🏾

😅We welcomed new faces and reunited with familiar friends. The HIIT workout blended strength, power, and partner exercises.

✅Our mission: to make movement accessible, #fun, and empowering for every ability. 👟

#SeniorFitness #ElderCare #Nonprofits #Health #Inclusion #Boston #Northshorema #aging #fitness #Community

SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

https://blog.kagi.com/slopstop

#HackerNews #SlopStop #Community #AI #KagiSearch #SlopDetection

GitHub Partial Outage

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1jw8ltnr1qrj

#HackerNews #GitHub #Outage #GitHub #Status #Tech #News #Developer #Community #System #Status

I believe that kindness is powerful because it connects us all as human beings. My belief in that power means that I see it in all sorts of settings. One of those settings is within communities.

Image by Agata from Pixabay.

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#Kindness #Community #Positivity

We're helping organisations understand that the future of engagement isn't by feeding the hungry algorithms of Big Tech, but it's in smaller, more meaningful communities.

People are turning their backs on fake engagement and corny algorithm-tailored messages. They want to feel part of something.

We know that the Social Web can help them feel that again. That's why we're building community apps for organisations, connected to the Social Web.

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Community