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

[Dave McGuire]

   Ok THAT is cool.  Thanks for the pointer!

              -Dave

On 12/24/22 10:25, Dave Shevett wrote:
> 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 
> <https://fosstodon.org/@roygreenhilt.rss> - that's me :)
> 
> VCF's would be https://social.vcfed.org/@admin.rss 
> <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 
> <mailto: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>
>      > <mailto: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>
>     <mailto:shevett at pobox.com <mailto:shevett at pobox.com>>
> 
>     -- 
>     Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
>     New Kensington, PA
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave Shevett
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA