Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon
@Drbruced @chad might have some insights
@Drbruced I know @cunningpike worked on one, but I’m not sure he’s active anymore. Might ping him and see. 😊
@Drbruced @smurthys happy to talk about what we've done at #hachyderm & lessons learned. they're welcome to dm me.
@Tom @Drbruced Yes, feel free to reach out, if I can help with something.
@Drbruced Germany & Europe both have government owned instances. Germany at social.bund.de, Europe at social.network.europa.eu.
I haven't looked for any blog posts describing how they set it up. I can look for them tomorrow if you want me to.
Maybe a kind email to the admins of these instances can help your friend.
@jackylein250 Thanks, good pointer!
@Drbruced @jackylein250 there are some more in Germany. Public broadcasting service has ard.social and zdf.social
@Drbruced
https://meta.chaos.social/ have their setup documented. Not government run tho. CA 10k active users.
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@Drbruced I've only deployed a personal mastodon instance, but I've been deploying and scaling web apps for most of my career. Nothing in Mastodon was foreign or unfamiliar. Feel free to reach out if you can't find a better contact.
@Drbruced I’d suggest talking to my colleague @judeswae , who wrote https://martinfowler.com/articles/your-org-run-mastodon.html
Your organization should run its own Mastodon server

Run your own Mastodon server to control your social media presence

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@Drbruced So the government is going to benefit from this person's experience for free?
@Drbruced Have you reached out to social.overheid.nl yet? They got a Mastodon instance for Dutch public services going pretty early on, so I imagine they have very useful experience.

@Drbruced
@rstockm would you be willing to chat?
I am sure you would know qualified folks too ;)

Thanks

@Drbruced maybe the @itteam has some insights?
@Drbruced Is there anything specific to the deployment? It's probably going to have registration disabled, integrated with institution's ID provider (via OAuth), have user directory hidden and clear moderation rules listed. I think these are main starting points 
@Drbruced Universities may be a special case but @uniinnsbruck just went public with their server and I suspect they are happy to share their experience.
@Drbruced maybe @melaniebartos could help, she led the way for establishing thee Mastodon instance of @uniinnsbruck

Jemand sucht Rat und Austausch zu institutionellen Mastodon-Servern.

Wollt Ihr dem helfen, @Team_Mastodon ?

https://aus.social/@Drbruced/111456740881374063

Bruce Davie (@[email protected])

Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse #mastodon

Aus.Social
@Drbruced We (the Mastodon team) can probably help as well 👍

@Drbruced

Bruce.

We host a few dozen larger servers and I am happy to candidly share the experiences of our team and moderators.

I'll send you my contact details in a DM

social.bund.de

Dies ist der Mastodon-Server der Bundesbeauftragten für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit (BfDI).

Mastodon hosted on social.bund.de

@Drbruced I don't have experience with institutions (only my own server), but I do want to point out the model that @stefan has chosen for their TV production company loosely related to German public television (I hope I got this right).

Anyways, as far as I understood it, they made two instances https://edi.social and https://det.social where one is a regular public instance for anyone to join and the other one is restricted to members of the organisation. This way, you can have some sort of official accounts while also giving back a free instance for the public.

Keep in mind this might have changed and I might have misunderstood it. It looks like https://edi.social is being phased out. But maybe Stefan is willing to share some experience.

edi.social

The social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization! Own your data with Mastodon!

Mastodon hosted on edi.social
@Drbruced we do it as an outsourced service for multiple organisations if DIY looks too much work.
I am glad someone is offering that service even though I do not currently have any specific organisations in mind to recommend it to.

Out of curiosity, do you offer doing it on a subdomain of the organisations current domain? Here I mean you tell the organisation which DNS records they need to create for the subdomain, and you manage everything else.

I don't see pricing on mythic-beasts.com/apps/overview
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@kasperd @Drbruced any domain you choose, so we're social.mythic-beasts.com, we just need the record pointing at us. We don't have a direct pricing table, as it depends on number of users and likely number of followers (100k+ followers is a very effective self DDOS machine).
@Drbruced would be very interested to hear how it goes!
@Drbruced here's a list of agencies and organisations that have set up their own server, any of the associated admins would likely be willing to chat - https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/view/5wLHvZPrt4wVP8QdbtNgPv5iV3OwWbksemd4CNpBHuU/ (And I'm happy to help in whatever fashion also)
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@Drbruced You might reach out to the admins of HCommons? They run the instance I'm posting from, provide a Wordpress platform, and a number of other infrastructural things—all from a public university in the USA (Michigan State University).

https://sustaining.hcommons.org

This is a holiday/long weekend, by the way, so I'd expect Monday would be the absolute earliest anyone might see a message.

Sustaining the Commons

@Drbruced You could ask @beheerder
They setup a mastodon server for the Dutch government
@Drbruced

I’ve been watching Flipboard’s conversion to mastodon.

Maybe
@JsonCulverhouse ?

I don’t know them, just sticking my nose in where it doesn’t’ belong.
@Drbruced There might be a few relevant links in this thread: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/111352731238237557
Stefan Bohacek (@[email protected])

Is anyone leading efforts on promoting fediverse to government agencies? #fediverse #govtech #SocialMedia

Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server
@Drbruced why not simply start;
-deploy a test virtual machine
-obviously needs access from/to internet
-load the install guide and simply deploy
-experience & learn
@Drbruced
you can ask @cquest about that for the French Etalab
@Drbruced Mine is a private server, but I boosted!