[Linux-aus] FOSS social media

[Russell Coker]

https://nzoss.nz/online-services

The New Zealand Open Source Society runs a Mastodon (federated micro-blogging) 
server for the use of people and organisations that have similar aims.  Which 
is probably most people here.

https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@etbe

The above is my Mastodon address on their server.

https://wiki.luv.asn.au/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

The Linux Australia Council have expressed their plans to never run a public 
wiki or similar.  But the LUV wiki is running (it had been down for a while - 
I just fixed it) and could be used for listing social media addresses of FOSS 
people in our region.

LUV runs a Matrix (Federated IM) server and accounts are available for free to 
all Linux Australia members.  Contact me off-list if you want an account.

I can add other services to the LUV server if they aren't too difficult to 
manage.  Anything that is included in Debian/Stable is a possibility.


There was a recent discussion here about how bad one of the commercial 
products is.  I think that we should concentrate on finding good alternatives 
and trying to get a critical mass of users.  Mastodon and Matrix are 
technically good replacements for Twitter and Facebook Messenger.  We just 
need the users.

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