[vcf-midatlantic] Has anyone thought of the VCFED hosting a Mastodon instance?
Dave Shevett
shevett at pobox.com
Wed Apr 27 15:44:15 UTC 2022
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 at 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
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Dave Shevett
shevett at pobox.com
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