[Linux-aus] FOSS social media

[Mike Barnes]

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. 

https://social.chinwag.org runs a custom fork of Mastodon, with mostly cosmetic changes.

Signup is currently open, with manual approval, but during Australian business hours that'll be pretty swift!

On Thu, Jan 30, 2025, at 3:04 PM, Russell Coker via linux-aus wrote:
> 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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