This is different. It's not necessarily a form for all of us to communicate among each other, it is a public open environment where we can engage with the wider community. I don't think anybody is suggesting us abandoned the forums or the mailing list or anything like that, but I've been active on Mastodon for almost 2 years now, and it has a very strong feel of Usenet as it was 30 years ago. Open source, not run by a corporation, and very personal. I'm enjoying it. Happy to see we have a presence there, and I hope that VCF uses it at least at the beginning the same way we're using Twitter. On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, 5:41 PM Mike Loewen via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022, Andrew Diller via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
With support from the VCF Board I have created a new service for supporters of the Vintage Computer Federation: A VCF Mastodon instance.
I'm curious as to the need for another communications service. We already have the VCF Forums (which are becoming more active), and a VCF Discord (which is severely underused), and the mailing list.
Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/