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All Toots (as Mastodon calls the Tweets) are public, so I do not see a benefit (yet) of running the service outside Australia for privacy reasons. <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>My understanding is that Mastodon is largely compatible with GNU Social. The federated architecture allows both user groups to interact with each other. In addition, many users find the Mastodon GUI more appealing. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>From the ops perspective, Docker makes Mastodon super-easy to run and operate on the server-side.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>Gabor Szathmari<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>President, CryptoAUSTRALIA<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>e:<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="mailto:gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au">gabor@cryptoaustralia.org.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>m:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>+61 402 401 424<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>w:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://cryptoaustralia.org.au">https://cryptoaustralia.org.au</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>pgp:</span></b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> 0326 DE9F DA20 A691 438B A58D 2B82 69F2 1A8C CB7A<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'>keybase:</span></b><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black'><a href="https://keybase.io/gszathmari">https://keybase.io/gszathmari</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5 May 2017, at 22:20, Russell Coker <<a href="mailto:russell@coker.com.au">russell@coker.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>I think that the amount of money is reasonable and this could provide a good<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>benefit to the community.<br><br>But I would like to know what the benefits are over GNU Social? Is it easier<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>to install and manage? Last time I checked GNU Social was difficult to install,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>to achieve the goals of replacing Twitter and giving users control I think<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><br>that being at least as easy to install as Wordpress would be a requirement.<br><br>Would it be better to have this run on a VM on one of the LA servers?<br><br>On Fri, 5 May 2017 08:07:49 AM Linux Australia President wrote:<br style='font-variant-caps: normal;text-align:start;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px'><br></span><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Thanks for the reminder Gabor, Council will consider this application on<br>11th May.<br><br>Kind regards,<br>Kathy<br><br>On 05/05/17 07:40, Gabor Szathmari wrote:<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif'>Hello Everyone,<br><br>I have seen a few decisions coming in, and I just wanted to follow up<br>on this grant application. 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