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<div dir="ltr">Thanks Rob - sounds interesting as another place to chat. </div>
<div dir="ltr">However, the Linux org website and their official information is almost always posted to the one I stated and is the official link on the website. </div>
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<div dir="ltr">Marcus Herstik</div>
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<div dir="ltr">E: <a href="mailto:marcus@herstik.com">Marcus@Herstik.com</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">M: <a href="tel:+61405569466">(+61) 0405 569 466</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">P: PO Box 2443 Burleigh Waters QLD 4220</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Rob Thomas <xrobau@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 30, 2025 4:47:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au <linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Mike Barnes <mike@bremensaki.com>; Marcus Herstik <marcus@herstik.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Linux-aus] FOSS social media</font>
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<div>Just as a reminder for everyone, I run mastodon.au (as well as 'yourpix.au') for all your open-source social media needs!</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 at 16:03, Marcus Herstik via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">The currently suggested Mastodon server (<span style="text-decoration:none; font-family:mastodon-font-sans-serif,sans-serif; font-size:15px; display:inline; color:rgb(156,156,201); background-color:rgba(24,24,33,0.7)">Fosstodon)</span> is not
accepting requests to join as it's "invite only". </div>
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<div id="x_m_-447468408543706453divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus-bounces@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus-bounces@lists.linux.org.au</a>>
on behalf of Mike Barnes via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 30, 2025 2:28:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a> <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Linux-aus] FOSS social media</font>
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<div>Just noting here that while not in any way FOSS-focused, Chinwag is very much in the "business" of providing free and open communications services to anyone and if you're reading this then you're more than welcome. <br>
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<div><a href="https://social.chinwag.org" target="_blank">https://social.chinwag.org</a> runs a custom fork of Mastodon, with mostly cosmetic changes.<br>
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<div>Signup is currently open, with manual approval, but during Australian business hours that'll be pretty swift!</div>
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<div>On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, at 3:04 PM, Russell Coker via linux-aus wrote:<br>
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<div>The New Zealand Open Source Society runs a Mastodon (federated micro-blogging) <br>
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<div>server for the use of people and organisations that have similar aims. Which <br>
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<div><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@etbe" target="_blank">https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@etbe</a><br>
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<div>The above is my Mastodon address on their server.<br>
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<div><a href="https://wiki.luv.asn.au/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page" target="_blank">https://wiki.luv.asn.au/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page</a><br>
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<div>The Linux Australia Council have expressed their plans to never run a public <br>
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<div>wiki or similar. But the LUV wiki is running (it had been down for a while - <br>
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<div>I just fixed it) and could be used for listing social media addresses of FOSS <br>
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<div>LUV runs a Matrix (Federated IM) server and accounts are available for free to <br>
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<div>I can add other services to the LUV server if they aren't too difficult to <br>
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<div>manage. Anything that is included in Debian/Stable is a possibility.<br>
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<div>There was a recent discussion here about how bad one of the commercial <br>
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<div>and trying to get a critical mass of users. Mastodon and Matrix are <br>
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<div>technically good replacements for Twitter and Facebook Messenger. We just <br>
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<div>My Main Blog <a href="http://etbe.coker.com.au/" target="_blank">http://etbe.coker.com.au/</a><br>
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<div>My Documents Blog <a href="http://doc.coker.com.au/" target="_blank">http://doc.coker.com.au/</a><br>
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