<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title><style type="text/css">p.MsoNormal,p.MsoNoSpacing{margin:0}</style></head><body><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></div><div><br></div><div>https://social.chinwag.org runs a custom fork of Mastodon, with mostly cosmetic changes.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Signup is currently open, with manual approval, but during Australian business hours that'll be pretty swift!</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, at 3:04 PM, Russell Coker via linux-aus wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" id="qt" style=""><div><a href="https://nzoss.nz/online-services">https://nzoss.nz/online-services</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The New Zealand Open Source Society runs a Mastodon (federated micro-blogging) <br></div><div>server for the use of people and organisations that have similar aims. Which <br></div><div>is probably most people here.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@etbe" class="">https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@etbe</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The above is my Mastodon address on their server.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.luv.asn.au/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page">https://wiki.luv.asn.au/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The Linux Australia Council have expressed their plans to never run a public <br></div><div>wiki or similar. But the LUV wiki is running (it had been down for a while - <br></div><div>I just fixed it) and could be used for listing social media addresses of FOSS <br></div><div>people in our region.<br></div><div><br></div><div>LUV runs a Matrix (Federated IM) server and accounts are available for free to <br></div><div>all Linux Australia members. Contact me off-list if you want an account.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I can add other services to the LUV server if they aren't too difficult to <br></div><div>manage. Anything that is included in Debian/Stable is a possibility.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>There was a recent discussion here about how bad one of the commercial <br></div><div>products is. I think that we should concentrate on finding good alternatives <br></div><div>and trying to get a critical mass of users. Mastodon and Matrix are <br></div><div>technically good replacements for Twitter and Facebook Messenger. We just <br></div><div>need the users.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br></div><div>My Main Blog <a href="http://etbe.coker.com.au/">http://etbe.coker.com.au/</a><br></div><div>My Documents Blog <a href="http://doc.coker.com.au/">http://doc.coker.com.au/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________<br></div><div>linux-aus mailing list<br></div><div><a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a><br></div><div><a href="https://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus">https://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to<br></div><div><a href="mailto:linux-aus-unsubscribe@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus-unsubscribe@lists.linux.org.au</a><br></div><div><br></div></blockquote></body></html>