[Linux-aus] FOSS social media

[Marcus Herstik]

The currently suggested Mastodon server (Fosstodon) is not accepting requests to join as it's "invite only".


Regards

Marcus Herstik

E: Marcus at Herstik.com<mailto:marcus at herstik.com>
M: (+61) 0405 569 466<tel:+61405569466>
P: PO Box 2443 Burleigh Waters QLD 4220

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From: linux-aus <linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au> on behalf of Mike Barnes via linux-aus <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 2:28:33 PM
To: linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au>
Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] FOSS social media

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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My Main Blog         http://etbe.coker.com.au/
My Documents Blog    http://doc.coker.com.au/



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