<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 6:46 PM John Abreau <<a href="mailto:abreauj@gmail.com">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><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><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"><br><div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>(1) IRC</b><b><span class="gmail_default">  </span>Do we have a #blu channel on libera IRC ? </b></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"></span>Yes, I stopped using freenode more than a year ago when I switched to libera. </span></span> <br><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Yes, the channel #blu on libera is the one I use to announce when each meeting's livestream begins and ends</span></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><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 class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">If so I'll join.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"> </span>I couldn't see mention on <a href="http://blu.org" target="_blank">blu.org</a> of it.</div></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">OK, I've joined.  <br>Links if anyone else wants/needs to join. (Looks like we now have 5 people with it set to AUTOJOIN.)<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><a href="https://libera.chat/guides/registration">https://libera.chat/guides/registration</a></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="margin-left:40px"><span style="font-family:arial narrow,sans-serif"><a href="https://libera.chat/guides/pidgin">https://libera.chat/guides/pidgin</a></span></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">We should probably <b>list the channel on the <a href="http://blu.org">blu.org</a> pages</b> somewhere?  <br>The only IRC mentions i found were logs that stop in 2016, kinda stale.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><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 class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><b>(2) Fediverse / Mastodon </b><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span>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">Would we want to? (Would we want the moderation burden?)<br></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">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></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, at least one volunteer Mod, preferably with backup, since Nodes=Instances promise each other they'll moderate their users to match their stated Policy. <br></div><div>OTOH, Fosstodon.org is once again accepting new members.<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_quote"><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 class="gmail_quote"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">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">I'll be accreting lessons learned there going forward.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">(Diffs can be viewed with git.)<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">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">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">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></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div></div>