BSD Cafe Announcements

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@announcements

This account is dedicated to announcements regarding the Mastodon instance and other services of BSD Cafe.
It will be used exclusively for this purpose. As news or updates arise (new services, issues, updates, scheduled downtimes for infrastructure work), there will be a post from this account.

To check the status of services at BSD Cafe, simply visit https://status.bsd.cafe/

For everything else, you can follow the account of Stefano Marinelli (npub1ef5…gcpc)

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Last Notes

2026-10-29 14:23:58 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been updated to v4.7.4
#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices

2026-10-26 19:37:05 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Forgejo instance (brew) has been updated to 15.0.11
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-10-22 07:31:39 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@announcements/117477751616398965
They're back
#note1pgr…2psz

2026-10-21 07:37:11 UTC

BSD Cafe - Temporary shutdown of PHP-based services
Due to recently disclosed, critical PHP vulnerabilities for which patches are not yet available, we have decided to temporarily shut down the PHP-based BSD Cafe services as a precaution.
The affected services are:
- The BSD Cafe Wiki (https://wiki.bsd.cafe)
- The BSD Cafe Journal (https://journal.bsd.cafe)
- BSD Cafe FreshRSS (https://freshrss.bsd.cafe)
These services will remain unavailable until the situation is clarified and we can safely bring them back online.
Thank you for your understanding.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices

2026-10-13 07:50:17 UTC

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.96
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #snac2

2026-10-12 18:03:42 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Forgejo instance (brew) has been upgraded to 15.0.10
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-10-01 17:55:54 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.7.3
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-09-26 06:58:10 UTC

The great Ángel Ortega - @npub1y6p…vhmg - sent me this wonderful BSD Cafe logo, and from now on it will represent this instance.
The old logo won't disappear, of course. It will still be used elsewhere, but this one is sooo cute!
Thank you, Ángel! ❤️
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeLogo #BSDCafeServices

2026-09-25 07:57:32 UTC

New rule at BSD Cafe: Do not promote AI
BSD Cafe prefers to define itself by what it supports, rather than by what it opposes.
We support people, open technologies, decentralisation, technological independence, privacy, user control, the sharing of knowledge, and communities where technology remains a tool rather than becoming the authority.
For these reasons, we cannot support the current direction of AI and the ecosystem surrounding it.
Much of today's AI technology is developed and controlled by a very small number of extremely large companies, through an unprecedented concentration of computing power, data, infrastructure, and capital. This creates dependencies that are fundamentally at odds with many of the values this community was built around.
We are also seeing increasingly direct consequences for people. Skilled professionals are losing work to automated systems. Organisations are becoming dependent on services they cannot inspect, understand, or control. AI-generated technical advice is often presented with confidence while lacking essential context. Automation is being used to scale abuse, manipulation, spam, and attacks.
At the same time, fear of these threats can itself push people and organisations towards a handful of large centralised providers, further reinforcing the same concentration of power.
The problem is not simply the existence of artificial intelligence as a technology. The problem is how these technologies are currently being developed, deployed, controlled, marketed, and increasingly presented as an inevitable replacement for human skills, judgement, creativity, and interaction.
Too often, the message coming from the companies selling these systems is essentially: *this is inevitable, it will replace what you do, and you will have to adapt to it whether you want to or not.*
At the BSD Cafe, we believe there must always be another choice.
For this reason, we ask members **not to use BSD Cafe to promote, advertise, or evangelise AI services, or the idea that replacing human work and decision-making with AI is inherently desirable, inevitable, or something everyone should simply accept.**
This does not prevent discussion.
But please do not use this community to promote the current AI-driven model of technological centralisation and human replacement.
**"Own your data" and the current state of AI are simply not compatible.**
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeRules

2026-09-23 06:48:03 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.7.2
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-09-15 17:26:06 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.6.8
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-09-10 14:12:55 UTC

The BSD Cafe #Forgejo instance (brew) has been updated to 15.0.8
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-09-08 19:16:45 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/117237019528096024
The BSD Cafe Mastodon instance's registration is currently closed.
A huge spam attack is hitting us.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates
#note1uj6…r2pe

2026-09-02 11:37:44 UTC

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been upgraded to 2.95
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #snac2

2026-09-02 05:57:06 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.6.7
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-08-20 13:34:58 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.6.6
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-08-20 10:07:10 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Forgejo instance (brew) has been updated to 15.0.7
#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices

2026-08-10 16:47:28 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.6.5
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-08-07 07:37:04 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.5.15
#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices

2026-08-07 07:25:36 UTC

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.94
#BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-07-29 21:06:47 UTC

The #BSDCafe #DeltaChat relay is currently offline because of an Hetzner node failure: "We are currently experiencing a fault on our cloud leaf hel1-cloud1-leaf9. Our technicians are working hard on analyzing the cause of the interruption in order to solve the issue. Please bear with us. As soon as more information is available, we shall inform you via this website. We apologize for any inconvenience. Thank you for your understanding."

2026-06-06 08:09:48 UTC

Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
One of the principles this place was built on has always been free communication. Whether on the Fediverse or on Matrix, the goal is the same: open, secure, private, decentralized tools. Because we know, from experience, that anything centralized will sooner or later come to an end.
Matrix is great, and we like it. But it's tied to its server - you can't migrate away (easily). It does its job well, yet sometimes it asks for more than a conversation should: heavy to host, hard to leave.
So when my friend @npub1lc9…nn5c brought it up again at EuroBSDCon, I decided to give Delta Chat another try after many years. And yes - its philosophy fits mine, and the Cafe’s, well.
For a few months we ran a relay - a chatmail server - but it was on Debian, and I didn't want to make an official service that runs on Debian. Not because it doesn't work: it works perfectly. But because it wouldn't be in the spirit of this place.
Thanks to @npub1swc…y2dn 's excellent cookbook recipe, I also kept a private relay of my own running for months, just to test it. It held up beautifully. So yesterday, with the help of some friends in the cookbook chat, I migrated the Debian server to FreeBSD - accounts and data included - and I can finally call it a stable, official Cafe service.
Our chatmail relay - https://chatmail.bsd.cafe - runs on FreeBSD, in a jail. Which means it gets everything the other services get: hourly backups via zfs send and receive, FreeBSD's security, and all the rest.
I'd encourage everyone to try Delta Chat. Secure, decentralized communication built on protocols we already know and trust: the ones behind email. And the development is moving fast. Multi-relay is no longer a promise - it's here, and it's solid: a single profile can use several relays at once, so your account and your reachability survive even if one of them goes down and disappears. That's real resilience. The real decentralization, the one we love.
Because Signal is great. But Signal, too, is centralized. And we happen to like the true spirit of the Internet.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #DeltaChat #ChatMail #Communication #OwnYourData

2025-11-19 10:13:04 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Forgejo instance ("brew") is constantly under "attack" by scrapers. It was killing the performance and making the entire BSD Cafe slower.
I've added some limits and workarounds - but you could see, from time to time, some 429 errors.
#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements

2025-10-17 10:37:27 UTC

I've enabled a slightly more aggressive caching on the BSD Cafe Mastodon instance. It shouldn't be necessary, but I want to see how things change.
If you notice any issues, please let me know.
Your Barista,
@npub1ef5…gcpc
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #Mastodon

2025-10-17 07:29:33 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances are now using #Valkey as "redis" servers.
This because the upcoming v4.5.0 will need at least #Redis 7, while KeyDB was supporting the 6.x feature set.
#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices

2024-10-15 18:27:31 UTC

Dear friends of #BSDCafe,
It’s time to upgrade Mastodon to v4.3.0.
I’m still unsure when I’ll be able to do it, as I want to ensure I have enough free time to manage any potential issues. I’ll perform a full PostgreSQL dump, take a complete snapshot of all the jails, and document the progress - should any issues arise - on the BSD Cafe Status page (https://status.bsd.cafe).
I expect to proceed by the end of the week. I apologize for not being able to provide much advance notice, but I’ll do my best to give at least half a day's notice.
@npub1ef5…gcpc
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeUpdates

2024-10-02 10:09:55 UTC

Snac2 is an excellent software solution for accessing the Fediverse. It is lightweight, very easy to compile and install, has minimal dependencies, and the development is progressing along a clear, clean, and logical path - thank you, @npub1ysc…ffqw
Since last December, BSD Cafe has had, among its services, a snac instance - https://snac.bsd.cafe - which has been used sparingly, mainly by some for testing purposes. I’ve kept it as a 'testing' option.
In light of the interest it is generating (we now have stable users) and given that development is evolving to allow for both inbound and outbound movement, I have decided to designate it as a stable solution for accessing the Fediverse and to consider it a primary service of the BSD Cafe.
It has always received the utmost attention, I have consistently updated it promptly, and it has always been accessible, but I have also modified all the descriptions to clarify that it is a stable and definitive solution.
For more information, there is always a dedicated page on our wiki: https://wiki.bsd.cafe/snac.bsd.cafe
Stay Tuned!
@npub1ef5…gcpc
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #snac #snac2 #Fediverse #Mastodon