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

[Dave Shevett]

Note that all Mastodon accounts have their own personal RSS feeds.  If you
do RSS, you can subscribe to it and read at your leisure :)

So, go to whatever RSS reader you have and subscribe to
https://fosstodon.org/@roygreenhilt.rss - that's me :)

VCF's would be https://social.vcfed.org/@admin.rss

No realtime needed!  Read at your leisure :)

On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:17 AM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vcfed.org> wrote:

>
>    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
>
>

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Dave Shevett
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