How active would you say the SDF instance is? If I were to join, the local timeline wont be a graveyard, will it? -----Original Message----- From: Dave Shevett <shevett@pobox.com> To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Dan FitzGerald <danjfitzgerald@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Has anyone thought of the VCFED hosting a Mastodon instance? Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 11:44:15 -0400 I'm on mastodon - you don't really need an instance, and there's acouple classic computer instances already. It is handy to havesimilar 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 mastodonoriginally - i may change it to something obviously me. Mastodon willredirect 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 currentlyan interest in people posting to something other than Twitter becauseof Elon Musk. I've been on Mastodon for a couple of years, and it hasits flaws, but a VCFED Mastodon instance wouldn't be the worst idea onthe planet. One of the flaws with Mastodon is that its like Twitter ifit was open-protocol and made up of clusters of special interestgroups. If we had a VCFED Mastodon open only to members of VCFED (wecould make membership to this mailing list a prereq to joining theinstance), then the instance's local timeline would be full of postsfrom 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 bequeer like me... I feel like a timeline full of folks I just spentthree days sharing an exhibit hall with would be more of an actualcommunity. Regards,Dan FitzGeraldThey/Them/Theirs http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger
Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them/Theirs http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger