Dan BlickensderferWelcome to @clintlalonde
Clint Lalonde (he/him)@Dan_Blick thanks. Feels very Tweetdeck-ish right now. You know anyone who is running their own instance of this?
@clintlalonde I'm working to get one setup this week. I've also been experimenting with talking to mastodon.social programmatically.
Robin DeRosa@Dan_Blick @clintlalonde So if you make an "instance" it still somehow talks to the larger platform? I am trying so hard to wrap my small bookish brain around this.
@actualham @Dan_Blick Exactly. Esentially, you could host your own instance of Mastodon (like you have your own website) and it would connect to other instances of Mastodon. potential best of both worlds - you get to own your own data AND get the network effects of distributed network. That's the theory anyway.
Natalie Lafferty@clintlalonde @actualham @Dan_Blick Thinking about that too and wondering if we could try this out to support online discussion between learners. Are you going to give this a go? Or do we know yet if anyone has given it a try?
@nlafferty @actualham @Dan_Blick My hope is that I can carve out some time to get a test instance up and running before end of the year. By then, there will hopefully be a few people in this community u and running & we can test out the federation model.
@clintlalonde @actualham @nlafferty Yes! This is my plan also (and to spend some time getting Mastodon.py working --programatically crosspost to twitter, etc) https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py
Daniel Lynds@Dan_Blick @clintlalonde @actualham @nlafferty can you keep me in the loop on this Mr. B? I am looking at getting a test group up on my college's site. Was also entertaining a DoOO instance.
Maybe we could do a Google Hangout once you've ironed out some wrinkles on your instance? - That is not a euphemism btw :)
@daniellynds @Dan_Blick @clintlalonde @actualham I'm hoping we can do the same once we get our test server set up. Would be good to compare notes and keep in touch. I'm copying in my colleague @Emmadw as I think she was also looking at installing on her own server.
Econproph@daniellynds @Dan_Blick @clintlalonde @actualham @nlafferty I would be interested in lurking in such a hangout discussion.
Kate
Scott Robison@daniellynds @actualham @Dan_Blick @nlafferty @clintlalonde I'm interested as well! Hopefully I won't still be driving across the continent.