Happy Friday!
@BastilleBSD @stefano #BSD Cafe Community, and all the Fediverse community 🤗
I enjoy this day with this song stuck in my head 🎶🎧
https://youtu.be/Nn1IeHL5DHY?is=tfbL4UI3OcSegqYF

#HappyFriday #BSDCafe

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

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Anyway, it's Monday morning and it's windy.
This song came back to my mind.

Happy week, #BSDCafe
Happy week, #illumosCafe
Happy week, #Fediverse

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=2vRsEC65NTA

#Music #MastoMusic #MastoRadio #FediMusic #FediRadio #JukeBix

Happy Sunday, #BSDCafe
Happy Sunday, #illumosCafe
Happy Sunday, #Fediverse

Let’s keep looking forward, always forward, without forgetting where we come from but without looking back.

#SilentSunday #Photography #Photo #Countryside #Relax #Silence #Peace

Show off your *BSD desktop!

https://billboard.bsd.cafe/topic/72/show-off-your-bsd-desktop

#RunBSD #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #DragonflyBSD #NetBSD #Illumos #Screenshot #Desktop #picture #bsdcafe #billboard

The #BSDCafe #Forgejo instance (Brew) has been upgraded to 11.0.12

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Important announcement from the #BSDCafe Barista

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

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Announcing the BSD Cafe Billboard

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/04/02/announcing-the-bsd-cafe-billboard/