[Ubuntu-US-CA] Ubuntu-us-ca Digest, Vol 133, Issue 3

[jim]

If you are looking for a more open-themed conversational social media 
experience, we would recommend looking at https://instances.social/ for 
a more suitable entrance to the fediverse.


On 10/06/2018 01:31 AM, Anna wrote:
> It's pretty easy to get going, the hardest part is picking an instance 
> probably. https://floss.social is one I found that seems primarily 
> focused on FLOSS, which might be a good candidate. Doesn't seem to be 
> any ubuntu-centric ones though.
>
> Running a Mastodon server would be pretty cool too, but would 
> necessitate a bit more involvement and considering how to handle who 
> gets accounts, etc. Most Mastodon instances run on Ubuntu (including 
> mine!) so it'd be highly appropriate, but getting everyone in the 
> group sold on the concept and interested in such a thing to make it 
> worth the server cost and admin labor would be the biggest issue I 
> think :)
>
> Pretty much all of identi.ca <http://identi.ca>'s momentum went into 
> Mastodon, and is picking up way more steam than identi.ca 
> <http://identi.ca> ever did, especially with its focus on fixing a lot 
> of the social problems inherent to platforms like twitter and facebook.
>
> I'm personally getting rather passionate about it because it's the 
> first chance I've seen for a break away from closed, corporate 
> networks that subsist off of data mining and, quite literally, misery, 
> into something that is run by individuals and communities for each 
> others' mutual benefit. I used to be extremely active on Twitter but 
> did not realize just how bad and unhealthy it was for me until I got 
> away from it by participating in a... let's call it a much healthier 
> take on the microblogging concept, that isn't 97% anger and hate speech.
>
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:28 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph <lyz at ubuntu.com 
> <mailto:lyz at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'm working with Charlie to get him access to some of our other social
>     media accounts. Maybe you could work with him to create a Mastodon
>     account for the team? We had an identi.ca <http://identi.ca>
>     account long ago, but it
>     fizzled out when the rest of that service did.
>
>     On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:10 PM Anna <zeromusmog at gmail.com
>     <mailto:zeromusmog at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > Failing a mastodon server, at least having a presence on
>     mastodon would probably be a good idea, considering it's probably
>     the most promising FLOSS social media project at the moment. I've
>     been really down on that our only social media options are
>     corporate, but there's been a huge uptick in Mastodon usage in the
>     last few months and it's been lively and active to the point where
>     I don't even care about Twitter anymore, which I used to live on.
>     >
>     > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:06 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph
>     <lyz at ubuntu.com <mailto:lyz at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM Andrew R Gross
>     <andrew at shrad.org <mailto:andrew at shrad.org>> wrote:
>     >> > Is there an instagram page?
>     >>
>     >> There is a Flickr account, but I was the only one who ever used
>     it and
>     >> it was pretty short-lived
>     https://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntu-us-ca/
>     >>
>     >> Instead, mostly people just take their own photos of events and
>     share
>     >> them from their own accounts.
>     >>
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