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

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2026-06-10 07:38:26 UTC

A wave of fake profile registrations is currently underway.
Many are easy to spot, others less so. The risk is that some (but credible) fake profiles might slip through, while some legitimate friends might go unnoticed, lost in the chaos of new signups.
If you have submitted a request, are a real person, and are genuinely interested in joining BSD Cafe, please contact me privately.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeAnnouncements

2026-06-10 07:07:58 UTC

The #BSDCafe Brew instance (Forgejo) has been updated to 11.0.15
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

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 @nprofile…366x 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 @nprofile…6wcx '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

2026-06-03 15:23:21 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been updated to v4.5.11
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-05-20 14:38:18 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been updated to v4.5.10
#BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-05-13 08:02:42 UTC

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.92
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-05-12 10:23:21 UTC

The #BSDCafe Brew installation has been updated to #Forgejo 11.0.14
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2026-05-06 05:56:11 UTC

As announced when Billboard was launched, blendit.bsd.cafe, our Lemmy instance, is now shut down.
Managing it had become too demanding, and several technical issues had repeatedly suggested that it should be retired.
I will delete everything shortly, keeping only a backup for a while.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements

2026-04-15 18:32:15 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.5.9
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements

2026-04-02 10:11:46 UTC

Retiring BlendIT: the BSD Cafe's Lemmy instance
After careful consideration, I've decided to retire BlendIT, our Lemmy instance, effective 1st May 2026.
This is not a decision I take lightly. Every service at the BSD Cafe is something I care about, and shutting one down always feels like closing a table in the bar. But part of being a responsible barista is knowing when something isn't working - for us.
Lemmy is a valid and interesting piece of software, and I have respect for the project and the people behind it. However, managing it in a context like the BSD Cafe has proven to be more difficult than I can sustain. The resource demands, particularly around media storage and retention, grow in ways that are hard to control, and the maintenance overhead has become significant for what is, ultimately, a community-run infrastructure with limited resources. There are also concerns around GDPR compliance, as the software's approach to media retention makes it difficult to ensure that data is handled and removed in accordance with European regulations.
On top of that, we now have Billboard, a federated forum that fits naturally into the BSD Cafe's ecosystem. With Billboard available, maintaining two overlapping solutions for the same purpose no longer makes sense. Rather than spreading our energy thin, I'd rather focus on what works best for us.
None of this is a judgment on Lemmy as a project - it simply isn't the right fit for us, here, now.
If you have content on BlendIT that you'd like to save, please do so before 1st May. After that date, the instance will be permanently shut down and its data removed.
Thank you to everyone who used and contributed to BlendIT.
The table is closing, but the bar is very much open - and there's always room at the counter.
Stefano, your Barista
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BlendiT

2026-04-01 16:30:51 UTC

Today, we're introducing three things.
The first one is a forum. A real forum - with categories, threads, and actual conversations that don't disappear in a timeline after six minutes.
The second is a Fediverse platform. Fully federated, ActivityPub-native. Your posts go out, the world's posts come in. No walled gardens, no algorithms, no tricks.
The third is a Bar. A place to sit down, talk to strangers who happen to care about the same weird things you do, and stay as long as you want.
A forum. A Fediverse platform. A bar.
Are you getting it?
These are not three separate things. This is one thing.
And we're calling it Billboard.
https://billboard.bsd.cafe
And no, we checked the calendar. We know. This is not an April Fools' joke.
We're just really bad at timing.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements

2026-03-24 18:33:13 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been updated to v4.5.8
#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements

2026-03-23 09:28:40 UTC

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.91
#BSDCafeInstance #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements

2026-03-03 09:13:44 UTC

There's a new wave of spam - all around the Fediverse.
Please remember, there's no "Mastodon Moderation Team" sending out strange verification messages.
That's all spam.
#Mastodon #Fediverse #FediTips #Spam #CyberSecurity

2026-02-24 16:12:11 UTC

The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instances have been upgraded to v4.5.7
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeAnnouncements

2025-07-20 08:53:46 UTC

Dear friends of the #BSDCafe
Exactly two years ago, on 20th July 2023, I made a post announcing a new project: The BSD Cafe.
It was an idea I had been thinking about for a while, but never had the courage to truly take on. Yet, in those days, I pushed past my doubts, finalized the last bits of the setup, and decided to go public.
I never imagined the warmth, the kindness, the support I would receive. Friends started signing up, new friends arrived, and two years later I can proudly say that the community we’ve built is truly amazing.
The BSDs as our guiding star, technology as our shared passion, and - above all - acceptance and open-mindedness as our core values.
Supporters, not haters.
I’m genuinely happy about all this, and in my upcoming talk at #EuroBSDCon I’ll be sharing both technical and human sides of this experience.
Happy birthday, BSD Cafe. And thank you all, my friends, for making this such a wonderful journey.
The Cafe is always open. The coffee machine is always warm.
Your Barista,
Stefano
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeCelebrations #BSDCafeBirthday

2025-07-07 13:14:39 UTC

The #BSDCafe #snac instance has been upgraded to 2.80
#BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeUpdates

2025-03-10 11:48:19 UTC

The BSD Cafe #snac instance has been updated to 2.73 (actually, this is an old news as I've updated it on 04/03/2025)
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeUpdates #snac2

2025-03-10 11:47:08 UTC

The BSD Cafe Mastodon instance has been updated to v4.3.5
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #Mastodon

2025-02-09 09:02:46 UTC

Dear friends of the BSD Cafe,
The Lemmy instance (BlendIT) has been causing issues for a long time. Updating it is problematic—it doesn’t compile easily on FreeBSD, requires a huge amount of resources, and fails to delete old remote media. Recently, it has also started throwing unknown errors that are nearly impossible to debug.
Unfortunately, I can no longer rely on it.
I'm sad to announce that this will likely be the first BSD Cafe service to be retired. I can't trust it at this level of reliability, I can't let it grow indefinitely, and I can't stop upgrading it while letting it run in this state.
I’ll take another look at it, but—though it pains me to say this—please be prepared for this possibility.
#BSDCafe #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BlendIT