Tidy up use of first person in docs. Since I don't run the only server, referring to "me" in the docs was ambiguous and probably reads oddly to the other server owners.

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<p>Spothole's web interface exists not just for the end user, but also as a reference implementation for the API, so
I have chosen to demonstrate both methods of filtering.</p>
it demonstrates both methods of filtering.</p>
<h4 class="mt-4">How is this better than DXheat, DXsummit, POTA's own website, etc?</h4>
<p>It's probably not? But it's nice to have choice.</p>
<p>I think it's got three key advantages over those sites:</p>
<ol>
<li>It provides a public, <a href="/apidocs">well-documented API</a> with an <a href="/apidocs/openapi.yml">OpenAPI
specification</a>. Other sites don't have official APIs or don't bother documenting them publicly, because
they want people to use their web page. I like Spothole's web page, but you don't have to use it&mdash;if
they want people to use their web page. Spothole has a nice web page too, but you don't have to use it&mdash;if
you're a programmer, you can build your own software on Spothole's API. Spothole does the hard work of
taking all the various data sources and providing a consistent, well-documented data set. You can then do
the fun bit of writing your own application.
</li>
<li>It grabs data from a lot more sources. I've seen other sites that pull in DX Cluster and POTA spots
together, but nothing on the scale of what Spothole supports.
<li>It grabs data from a lot more sources. Other sites pull in DX Cluster and spots from a few "on the air"
activities together, but nothing on the scale of what Spothole supports.
</li>
<li>Spothole is open source, so anyone can contribute the code to support a new data source or add new features,
and share them with the community.
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waiting around three minutes to see a newly added spot, or 40 minutes to see a newly added alert.</p>
<h4 class="mt-4">What licence does Spothole use?</h4>
<p>Spothole's source code is licenced under the Public Domain. You can write a Spothole client, run your own server,
modify it however you like, you can claim you wrote it and charge people £1000 for a copy, I don't really mind.
(Please don't do the last one. But if you're using my code for something cool, it would be nice to hear from
you!)</p>
modify it however you like, you can claim you wrote it and charge people £1000 for a copy, it really doesn't
matter. (Please don't do the last one. But if you're using Spothole's code for something cool, its developer,
<a href="https://ianrenton.com">Ian, M0TRT</a>, would love to hear from you!)</p>
<h4 class="mt-4">What commands are supported in the telnet server?</h4>
<p>Currently, <code>exit</code>, and nothing else. Support for some DXSpider-like commands may be added to Spothole
in due course, but at the moment if you want to add Spothole as a telnet cluster data source to your desktop