Re: [vcf-midatlantic] A Mastodon Instance for VCF - an Invitation

24 Dec 2022


      Ok THAT is cool.  Thanks for the pointer!

              -Dave

On 12/24/22 10:25, Dave Shevett wrote:
...
Note that all Mastodon accounts have their own personal RSS feeds.  If 
you do RSS, you can subscribe to it and read at your leisure :)
So, go to whatever RSS reader you have and subscribe to 
https://fosstodon.org/@roygreenhilt.rss 
<https://fosstodon.org/@roygreenhilt.rss> - that's me :)
VCF's would be https://social.vcfed.org/@admin.rss 
<https://social.vcfed.org/@admin.rss>
No realtime needed!  Read at your leisure :)
On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:17 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic 
<vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org 
<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote:
   It sounds fantastic, what Twitter should've always been.  It really
    makes me wish I was compatible with the whole real-time comms thing.
            -Dave
On 12/24/22 10:12, Dave Shevett wrote:
     > So, while this is amusing and snarky, folks should understand what
     > mastodon is and how it works.  Defederating a server because it
    has bad
     > users or content is actually a key component of how Mastodon works.
     >
     > The network isn't completely flat.  Unike Usenet, not all content is
     > replicated across all servers (yes, I know some newsgroups can be
     > filtered, that's not what i'm talking about).
     >
     > Servers / instances are identified by interest, social group, or
    topic.
     > Some servers attract some really dreadful people.  They are
    defederated
     > / blocked.
     >
     > It's a very very different model.
     >
     > On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:07 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic
     > <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org
    <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>
     > <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org
    <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>>> wrote:
     >
     >     On 12/24/22 02:52, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
     >      >>  Huh?  Have you actually *used* it?  It's 100% about
    talk, but has
     >      >> been abused for media.
     >      >
     >      > I have helped a friend mount hundreds of 18TB HDDs in
    sleds for some
     >      > Usenet service he does work for. It's pretty wild looking at a
     >     wall of
     >      > many petabytes of LEDs flashing... thinking.... I wonder what
     >     they are
     >      > reading on usenet right now.
     >
     >         Pics!
     >
     >      > There is a semi-local hackerspace that launched on the
    Mastodon
     >     during
     >      > the great evil Elon revolt, and immediately there was a user
     >     backlash
     >      > because the network of servers they were on touched a
    server that
     >     had
     >      > content the user didn't agree with. It was amusing.
     >
     >         ROFL
     >
     >                 -Dave
     >
     >     --
     >     Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
     >     New Kensington, PA
     >
     >
     >
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