Ade Malsasa Akbar (@[email protected])

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Do you agree if every university should establish each own Mastodon instance?

For example, #MIT in the US, #Cambridge in the UK, and #TUM in Germany has their own Mastodon instances and are federated to each other.

So students at MIT would have their own Mastodon accounts officially from MIT, they can communicate with students at Cambridge, TUM, and so on.

Please share your opinion. Boost is very appreciated.

#Education #School #Mastodon #Twitter #Poll

Yes, that'd be a brilliant idea.
91%
No, that is not good.
6.9%
Other, please comment.
2.1%
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@ademalsasa seems generally good, but not sure if the kids are into Mastadon et al?

@ademalsasa

Absolutely not - that's a terrible idea - as far as Fediverse server platforms go, mastodon is pretty lame....

Really lame.

Big discussion right now in a Fediverse matrix room for devs about just how lame mastodon really is.

https://write.as/tallship/making-better-use-of-space

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse

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Making Better Use of Space

Moving that old white elephant in the room. There's been a lot of talk lately, and speculation, about the #Fediverse. Yet for the most part, only with respect t...

tallship
@ademalsasa wondering what @mguhlin and the #edutooter crew thinks.
@mguhlin @mguhlin can’t keep up with your accounts but a decent #education #poll you might be interested in sharing.
@ademalsasa It doesn't have to be exclusively mastodon. As many public organizations and software projects should bake activity.pub functionality until federation is as ubiquitous as email and transparent as RSS.
@ademalsasa @mastodon (mastodon.mit.edu) exists

@karmanyaahm @ademalsasa mastodon.mit.edu does exist, but it's not run or endorsed by the MIT administration -- it's run by student (and former student) volunteers from SIPB, MIT's computer club.

At least in the US, you likely don't want "official" instances run by the university admins, because the university would likely treat it as a PR machine and moderate away anything that makes the university look bad. e.g., good luck talking about grad student unionizing on a university-run instance.