Re: Fediverse for May topic

2024-05-09 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
Am 09. May, 2024 schwätzte Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss so: Hi Went to what I think is the "main" website and it said: Fediverse social network differs from mainstream platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc). Mainstream platforms concentrate millions of users on one website,

Re: Fediverse for May topic

2024-05-09 Thread Austin Godber via PLUG-discuss
> You can run your own instance. At least one person on this list does that. I have been running a Mastodon instance with a small group of AZ people at https://az.social since Nov 2022, it's open for registrations if any AZ folks are interested in joining. I've since added a Lemmy instance (like

Re: Fediverse for May topic

2024-05-09 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
Am 09. May, 2024 schwätzte Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss so: moin moin Stephen, Yes. ish. :) Most of the Fediverse is using ActivityPub for server to server communication, so they know how to subscribe to and to share content with each other. Some Fediverse services offer RSS, so that's

Re: Fediverse for May topic

2024-05-09 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
So the idea is to be able to join your own or your buddy's social media site, and then it syncs to others. all the content and activity is still on that main server, but people from other servers can still subscribe to you from wherever they are logged in. and then this subscription is handed back

Re: Fediverse for May topic

2024-05-09 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Hi Went to what I think is the "main" website and it said: Fediverse social network differs from mainstream platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, etc). Mainstream platforms concentrate millions of users on one website, where they control all the decision-making, enforce censorshi

Fediverse for May topic

2024-05-08 Thread der.hans via PLUG-discuss
moin moin, I updated my Fediverse talk for LinuxFest Northwest, but we had some technical difficulties and I didn't get through the whole thing, so I'm reprising it for tomorrow's PLUG meeting. "Mastodon and the Fediverse: Decentralized Social Networking and Services" Still in Big Blue Button a