Okay, understand folks that an instance is not a siloed environment. It is one location that's connected to the rest of the mastodon universe. I understand that folks ar enot keen on yet another ghost town of a chat room that doesn't have anyone on it, but while you can tell your mastodon client to only show you things on the instance, you'd be missing out on most of the traffic. I'm on mastodon.social, which ist he largest instance, but i follow people on dozens of other instances. I really recommend folks go ahead and create themselves a login on an instance - doenst' matter where ( here's a list: https://github.com/McKael/mastodon-documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/... ) - and try it out. If we do end up making a VCF specific one, there's a basic tool to 'move' your login from one instance to another, and any references to your old login will redirect (and all your content will move too). Give it a try :) -d On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 2:12 PM Dan FitzGerald <danjfitzgerald@comcast.net> wrote:
How active would you say the SDF instance is? If I were to join, the local timeline wont be a graveyard, will it?
Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them/Theirs http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger
-----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 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
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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
-- Dave Shevett shevett@pobox.com