@dec23k Really nice! I have some #astronomy colleagues in #días .
I expect that many instances like that will be private for members only (#EU one also does this) since it is not actually restricting their immersion in #fediverse.
In #switzerland educational institutions are supported by #switch who I could imagine to host a service.
And I keep hoping that some federated servers will come up in #EOSC marketplace.
I'm not aware of federated servers coming up in #EOSC (yet), but I can give some more info on National #Research and #Education Networks (#NRENs).
@SURF, the Dutch NREN (as SWITCH is for Switzerland) launched in February 2023 a Mastodon pilot for Research and Education in the Netherlands: https://www.surf.nl/en/mastodon-pilot-for-research-and-education
Also, different NRENs and RRENs, including the pan-European R&E Network @geant for which I work have now opened Mastodon profiles (e.g. @DFN and @nordunet)
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that's interesting, I suppose this sort of network can certainly grow bottom-up, it does not need to start from #EOSC. I wonder, why don't they register in #EOSC marketplace for discoverability?
I just saw that #gitlab is advancing on implementing long-awaited #federated Merge Requests with #ActivityPub (https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247), it could be a boost for adoption.
Do you know if there are open academic #peertube servers? To share some open data.
@SURF 's Mastodon pilot is indeed still in the pilot stage, so I suspect that similar considerations might be made at the end of the pilot period when they will evaluate and decide on any further service development.
Nice to hear about #gitlab, I didn't know about the latest developments!
@dec23k @surf @geant @DFN @nordunet
I think it should be a lot less controversial for an organization to host a "read-only" (closed accounts, not subscribing to federation only publishing) #mastodon instance than an official account on #twitter, #youtube , etc which may end up treated unfortunately.
Such a #mastodon instance is a lot closer to an email server, RSS feed, or just a web-site.
But with ActivityPub it uses to publish content, it is just can be seen by a user just as a "normal" social network.
I'm also not aware of open academic #peertube servers, but I would be interested in knowing more.
Remaining in the NREN ecosystem, I know that the French NREN @renater publishes the recordings of its conference Journées RESeaux (JRES) on https://replay.jres.org/ which is powered by #PeerTube
The only think I know related is this https://tube.network.europa.eu/about/peertube
Research is clearly engaged with social networks, and I am not sure it is sustainable to keep using #youtube (who knows when something will happen to it, like it happened to #twitter .
State actors in Germany (e.g. @BMWK) and Netherland (@beheerder) are getting some pilot activities.
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