[Linux-aus] FOSS social media

Thu Jan 30 23:16:22 AEDT 2025

> [paraphrased] that server will display posts on the instance you've
joined or 'related' instances

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

https://mastodon.au/@xrobau/113917232027811226

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.

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!

--Rob
Director of 'Honest' Rob's Used Car (and Social Media) Emporium

On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 at 21:30, Steve Walsh via linux-aus <
linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:

> Hello Marcus
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> hope this helps.
> On 30/1/25 19:44, Marcus Herstik via linux-aus wrote:
>
> Thanks Rob - sounds interesting as another place to chat.
> 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.
>
> Regards
>
> Marcus Herstik
>
> E: Marcus at Herstik.com <marcus at herstik.com>
> M: (+61) 0405 569 466 <+61405569466>
> P: PO Box 2443 Burleigh Waters QLD 4220
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Rob Thomas <xrobau at gmail.com> <xrobau at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 30, 2025 4:47:46 PM
> *To:* linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au>
> <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au>
> *Cc:* Mike Barnes <mike at bremensaki.com> <mike at bremensaki.com>; Marcus
> Herstik <marcus at herstik.com> <marcus at herstik.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [Linux-aus] FOSS social media
>
> Just as a reminder for everyone, I run mastodon.au (as well as
> 'yourpix.au') for all your open-source social media needs!
>
> --Rob
>
>
> On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 at 16:03, Marcus Herstik via linux-aus <
> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote:
>
> 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 <marcus at herstik.com>
> M: (+61) 0405 569 466 <+61405569466>
> P: PO Box 2443 Burleigh Waters QLD 4220
>
> ------------------------------
> *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.
>
> --
> My Main Blog         http://etbe.coker.com.au/
> My Documents Blog    http://doc.coker.com.au/
>
>
>
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