[BLU/Officers] IRC ? Mastodon ?

[Bill Ricker]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 6:46 PM John Abreau <abreauj at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> *(1) IRC**  Do we have a #blu channel on libera IRC ? *
>>
> Yes, I stopped using freenode more than a year ago when I switched to
> libera.
> Yes, the channel #blu on libera is the one I use to announce when each
> meeting's livestream begins and ends
>


> If so I'll join. I couldn't see mention on blu.org of it.
>>
>
OK, I've joined.
Links if anyone else wants/needs to join. (Looks like we now have 5 people
with it set to AUTOJOIN.)
https://libera.chat/guides/registration
https://libera.chat/guides/pidgin

We should probably *list the channel on the blu.org <http://blu.org> pages*
somewhere?
The only IRC mentions i found were logs that stop in 2016, kinda stale.

*(2) Fediverse / Mastodon *
>>
>>>
Could we host a New England F(L)OSS node of Mastodon & one of the three
>> macrobloggers on one of our Collo servers?
>> Would we want to? (Would we want the moderation burden?)
>>
> 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.
>

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.
OTOH, Fosstodon.org is once again accepting new members.

> My update to NatickFOSS on Fediverse, Mastodon, and #Twexit
>> <https://n1vux.github.io/articles/Linux/2022-Nov-Mastodon/> is on my
>> POSSE post site.
>> I'll be accreting lessons learned there going forward.
>> (Diffs can be viewed with git.)
>>
>> I haven't explored the Fediverse's 3 options for macroblogging.
>> (For my purposes, the GitHub Pages are fine so far.)
>> But one of them might make more sense than WordPress or whatever for
>> those uses.
>>
>> I'm wondering if anyone has put up a generic Mastodon.NewEngland.us
>> node  yet.
>>
>
-- 
Bill Ricker
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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