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

[Dave McGuire]

   It sounds fantastic, what Twitter should've always been.  It really 
makes me wish I was compatible with the whole real-time comms thing.

            -Dave

On 12/24/22 10:12, Dave Shevett wrote:
> So, while this is amusing and snarky, folks should understand what 
> mastodon is and how it works.  Defederating a server because it has bad 
> users or content is actually a key component of how Mastodon works.
> 
> The network isn't completely flat.  Unike Usenet, not all content is 
> replicated across all servers (yes, I know some newsgroups can be 
> filtered, that's not what i'm talking about).
> 
> Servers / instances are identified by interest, social group, or topic.  
> Some servers attract some really dreadful people.  They are defederated 
> / blocked.
> 
> It's a very very different model.
> 
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:07 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic 
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org 
> <mailto:vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 12/24/22 02:52, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
>      >>  Huh?  Have you actually *used* it?  It's 100% about talk, but has
>      >> been abused for media.
>      >
>      > I have helped a friend mount hundreds of 18TB HDDs in sleds for some
>      > Usenet service he does work for. It's pretty wild looking at a
>     wall of
>      > many petabytes of LEDs flashing... thinking.... I wonder what
>     they are
>      > reading on usenet right now.
> 
>         Pics!
> 
>      > There is a semi-local hackerspace that launched on the Mastodon
>     during
>      > the great evil Elon revolt, and immediately there was a user
>     backlash
>      > because the network of servers they were on touched a server that
>     had
>      > content the user didn't agree with. It was amusing.
> 
>         ROFL
> 
>                 -Dave
> 
>     -- 
>     Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>     New Kensington, PA
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave Shevett
> shevett at pobox.com <mailto:shevett at pobox.com>

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA