I'm on mastodon - you don't really need an instance, and there's a couple classic computer instances already. It is handy to have similar folks https://mastodon.sdf.org/about My mastodon account - LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE https://mastodon.social/web/@RoyGreenhilt (yes, I'm using a webcomic name. I set it up to play with mastodon originally - i may change it to something obviously me. Mastodon will redirect when it happens) On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:12 AM Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Look, I know that this probably going nowhere, but there is currently an interest in people posting to something other than Twitter because of Elon Musk. I've been on Mastodon for a couple of years, and it has its flaws, but a VCFED Mastodon instance wouldn't be the worst idea on the planet. One of the flaws with Mastodon is that its like Twitter if it was open-protocol and made up of clusters of special interest groups. If we had a VCFED Mastodon open only to members of VCFED (we could make membership to this mailing list a prereq to joining the instance), then the instance's local timeline would be full of posts from this community. As opposed to the tech.lgbt instance I am on, where the local timeline are just a bunch of people that happen to be queer like me... I feel like a timeline full of folks I just spent three days sharing an exhibit hall with would be more of an actual community.
Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them/Theirs http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com