Re: FOSS social media

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: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> M: (+61) 0405 569 466 <tel:+61405569466>
> P: PO Box 2443 Burleigh Waters QLD 4220
>
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> *From:* Rob Thomas <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 30, 2025 4:47:46 PM
> *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* Mike Barnes <[email protected]>; Marcus Herstik 
> <[email protected]>
> *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 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     The currently suggested Mastodon server (Fosstodon) is not
>     accepting requests to join as it's "invite only".
>
>
>     Regards
>
>     Marcus Herstik
>
>     E: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     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-cunTk1MwBs8iFSDQTTA3OBCuuivNXqWP@public.gmane.org> on behalf
>     of Mike Barnes via linux-aus <[email protected]>
>     *Sent:* Thursday, January 30, 2025 2:28:33 PM
>     *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
>     *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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