[kwlug-disc] Promoting on Twitter, for the moment I guess

[Doug Moen]

Here's a possible Mastodon instance:

https://fosstodon.org/
36K users
Fosstodon is a Mastodon instance that is dedicated to Free & Open Source Software, or FOSS as many call it. Fosstodon is for people who are interested in open source technology and the awesome community around it. Whether that be Linux, open source software like Firefox, or Mastodon itself. If you're interested in technology, Fosstodon is a great place to start.

Disclaimer: I don't use Mastodon. But I've seen this instance referenced before on a tech forum.

User names are tied to a specific instance, since they contain the domain name of the instance.
I've seen that some people register a domain name and create their own instance, just so that they will permanently own their Mastodon address. So it's like email addresses, the difference between "me at gmail.com" and "me at mydomain.ca".

masto.host is a popular hosting service for people who want their own instance (see above) but are not sysadmin enough to set it up themselves. There is a monthly fee. It is a one person operation, run by Hugo, and it is in Beta.

You can migrate an account to a new instance. It's not trivial and painless tho. You can download your toots but you can't import them into a new account? I hope I'm missing something?
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#migration

Doug.

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022, at 7:39 PM, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> I believe there was a StatusNet instance here:
> https://sn.jonkman.ca/kwlug but it is now defunct. If you have the
> tuits, I recommend starting up a new KWLUG account somewhere on
> Mastodon. Then if the old account revives itself your account and
> Bob's account can fight until one of you wins the blue checkmark.
>
> In terms of where to create the account: I think one of the popular
> public servers is a safe bet, but if any KWLUG members is running a
> server and promises to maintain it for a while then it could go there.
> (Am I correct in thinking that people can migrate their accounts
> across the Fediverse?)
>
> - Paul
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 02:38:43PM -0500, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> Finally following up our discussions about promotion, and now it is
>> overlapping with Twitter drama...
>> 
>> I created a tweet for Mondays meeting:
>> 
>> https://twitter.com/kwlug/status/1589305624646516738
>> 
>> If anyone who is on twitter, and would like to help promote, could you
>> please like and re-tweet?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Andrew
>> 
>> (P.S.: Related, where in the fediverse should we start posting? Any
>> suggestions are welcome.)
>> 
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