[Linux-aus] FOSS social media

[Marcus Herstik]

Thanks for the replies peoples.
I think Kathy you may be misunderstanding me here.

As the “Find us on Mastodon” link seems to imply by being at the head of the LA page, that is an official channel from LA and a recommended way to connect with the community.
This is especially relevant as in some communications from the LA council they discuss via this Mastodon server, but there is no way for all of us to participate on this one as it's NOW an invite only server.

Sure - we can use other instances or roll our own but there’s no guarantee that we will be heard / seen as it relies on processors, timelines etc.

Regards
Marcus

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From: linux-aus <linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au> on behalf of Russell Coker via linux-aus <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2025 11:34:39 PM
To: linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au <linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au>
Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] FOSS social media

On Thursday, 30 January 2025 21:25:03 AEDT Kathy Reid via linux-aus wrote:
> At no point have we encouraged or promoted https://fosstodon.org as the
> Mastodon instance that Linux Australia members should join - as Marcus,
> you seem to be implying, but correct me if I have inferred this erroneously.

I am not aware of LA making any official recommendations, which I think is the
best practice.

But I (not being a member of LA council or in any other way representing LA)
am happy to say that fosstodon.org seems like a decent server and should do
the job well if someone gets an account there.

I still recommend the NZOSS server, I don't have evidence that it is better
than other servers (I have not used any other server for an account) but I use
it and have found it to work quite well enough.  It is run by a reliable group
of people and is unlikely to disappear.  It is a little slow sometimes but
probably all servers with more than a few users have that happen.


But mostly I recommend that people just try it out.  If the first server you
try doesn't work in the way you desire then you can try another.  You really
only learn these things by using them.

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