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

[Dave Shevett]

Hi Andy - er.... what's VCF's mastodon account?  I may have missed it in
the thread here.

(BTW, I'm @roygreenhilt at fosstodon.org - I picked the username when I was
testing out Mastodon ages and ages ago, and it's sort of stuck now)

 -d

On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 6:34 PM Andrew Diller <dillera at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dave gets it :)
>
> But yes, DaveS is very much right on track with what is being offered
> today Mike.
>
>
> Two things have happened:
>
> 1. There is a "VCF" official Mastodon account now, just like twitter where
> certain things can be posted and people who are on Mastodon can follow and
> keep track, just like twitter. These people may have left twitter. Nothing
> posted there will be exclusive to Mastodon. I didn't want to create an
> official VCF account (presence) on _another_ Mastodon instance, which is
> the genesis of this whole endeavor.
>
>
> 2. There is the VCF Mastodon Service- offered for supporters here - this
> is for you all to use as you will (within our TOS) to explore Mastodon if
> you want to. You will at least be in the same server as other VCF
> supporters which may be something you want. If you don't want this you can
> ignore it and your life will not be impacted.
>
>
> Hope this helps and thanks DaveS for the words...
>
> -andy
>
>
> > On Dec 23, 2022, at 6:12 PM, Dave Shevett via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
> >
> > 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 at 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 at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
> >> Old Technology
> http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
> >>
>
>

-- 
Dave Shevett
shevett at pobox.com