<div dir="ltr"><div>> [paraphrased] that server will display posts on
the instance you've joined or 'related' instances</div><div><br></div><div>It's actually a bit more convoluted than that. I captured a quick video of the 'firehose' of posts that are sent to M.au<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://mastodon.au/@xrobau/113917232027811226">https://mastodon.au/@xrobau/113917232027811226</a></div><div><br></div><div>I'm actually glad I did - I noticed that it's pausing. This means that I need to bump up the number of workers that actually reach out and fetch the posts that we've been told about, as it's obviously running out of grunt. You can tell because it pauses for a bit and then all at once dumps a huge number of posts in the firehose.</div><div><br></div><div>NORMALLY I would say 'I'll do it over the weekend', but this weekend I'm going to ride motorbikes and get drunk (in that order), so M.au will have to look after itself!</div><div><br></div><div>--Rob</div><div>Director of 'Honest' Rob's Used Car (and Social Media) Emporium<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 at 21:30, Steve Walsh via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div>
<p>Hello Marcus<br>
<br>
Every mastodon instance has access to every other instance. An
obvious disclaimer here is that for performance reasons, mastodon
servers cannot show every single post from every single user on
every single other instance in the entire fediverse. </p>
<p>Generally, once you join a server, that server will display posts
('toots' in fediverse lingo) that are either from other people on
the instance you've joined, a toot from another user if someone on
the instance follows them, or if someone on the instance you've
joined boosts a toot from another user on another instance.</p>
The great thing about the fediverse is that any account can still
follow any other account on any other server, even if your server
currently doesn't know about that account. This means you don't need
to wait for an invite to join the fostodon server, you can join any
of Rob's or Mike's fediverse servers, follow the LA account and you
will start to see toots from them in your account on your home
mastodon instance. <br>
<p> If you really do want to, you can create an account on multiple
instances so you can better curate or partition off what you see,
but at the core, you can access the entire fediverse from one
account, and once you follow a user you'll start to see all their
toots without needing to join the specific instance their account
is on. <br>
<br>
hope this helps. <br>
</p>
<div>On 30/1/25 19:44, Marcus Herstik via
linux-aus wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote type="cite">
<div>
<div dir="ltr">
<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>
</div>
</div>
<div id="m_-9162994722125597590ms-outlook-mobile-signature">
<div><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">Regards</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">Marcus Herstik</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">E: <a href="mailto:marcus@herstik.com" target="_blank">Marcus@Herstik.com</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">M: <a href="tel:+61405569466" target="_blank">(+61) 0405 569 466</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">P: PO Box 2443 Burleigh Waters QLD 4220</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%">
<div id="m_-9162994722125597590divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Rob
Thomas <a href="mailto:xrobau@gmail.com" target="_blank"><xrobau@gmail.com></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 30, 2025 4:47:46 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>Cc:</b> Mike Barnes <a href="mailto:mike@bremensaki.com" target="_blank"><mike@bremensaki.com></a>; Marcus
Herstik <a href="mailto:marcus@herstik.com" target="_blank"><marcus@herstik.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Linux-aus] FOSS social media</font>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div>
<div dir="ltr">
<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>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>--Rob</div>
<div><br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<div>
<div dir="ltr">On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 at
16:03, Marcus Herstik via linux-aus <<a href="mailto:linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au" target="_blank">linux-aus@lists.linux.org.au</a>>
wrote:<br>
</div>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div>
<div>
<div dir="ltr">
<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>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="m_-9162994722125597590x_m_-447468408543706453ms-outlook-mobile-signature">
<div><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">
<div dir="ltr">Regards</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">Marcus Herstik</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
<div dir="ltr">E: <a href="mailto:marcus@herstik.com" target="_blank">Marcus@Herstik.com</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">M: <a href="tel:+61405569466" target="_blank">(+61) 0405
569 466</a></div>
<div dir="ltr">P: PO Box 2443 Burleigh Waters QLD 4220</div>
<div dir="ltr"><br>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr style="display:inline-block;width:98%">
<div id="m_-9162994722125597590x_m_-447468408543706453divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><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>
<div> </div>
</div>
<div>
<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><a href="https://social.chinwag.org" target="_blank">https://social.chinwag.org</a>
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="m_-9162994722125597590x_m_-447468408543706453x_qt">
<div><a href="https://nzoss.nz/online-services" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">http://etbe.coker.com.au/</a><br>
</div>
<div>My Documents Blog <a href="http://doc.coker.com.au/" target="_blank">http://doc.coker.com.au/</a><br>
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