<div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, the channel #blu on libera is the one I use to announce when each meeting's livestream begins and ends.</div><div><br></div><div>As for fediverse or mastodon or whatever name it may use in the future, we'd need a volunteer committed to taking care of moderation, since you assert it entails a moderation burden. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 10:34 AM Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><b>(1) IRC </b></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 11:51 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com" target="_blank">abreauj@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Yes, I stopped using freenode more than a year ago when I switched to libera. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><b>Do we have a #blu channel on libera IRC ? </b><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">If so I'll join.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">I couldn't see mention on <a href="http://blu.org" target="_blank">blu.org</a> of it.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><b>(2) Fediverse / Mastodon </b><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div></div><div>I looked at mastodon a few years ago, but never did much with it. <br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">the whole Fediverse seems to have grown in the intervening years, and Mastodon is growing explosively this month, ^I wonder why^.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">My update to <a href="https://n1vux.github.io/articles/Linux/2022-Nov-Mastodon/" target="_blank">NatickFOSS on Fediverse, Mastodon, and #Twexit</a> is on my POSSE post site.<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">I'll be accreting lessons learned there going forward.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">(Diffs can be viewed with git.)<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">I haven't explored the Fediverse's 3 options for macroblogging. <br>(For my purposes, the GitHub Pages are fine so far.)<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">But one of them might make more sense than WordPress or whatever for those uses.</div></div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">I'm wondering if anyone has put up a generic <a href="http://Mastodon.NewEngland.us" target="_blank">Mastodon.NewEngland.us</a> node yet.<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">Could we host a New England F(L)OSS node of Mastodon & one of the three macrobloggers on one of our Collo servers? <br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">Would we want to? (Would we want the moderation burden?)<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><br></div></div>
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