Alan LevineFWIW I met Dave Lane a tech guru from New Zealand who is ready to release soon an "easy" guide for installing Mastodon instances.
He said he has done a handful already https://twitter.com/lightweight/status/858686621104865280
Downes 🍁@cogdog I'm trying to decide whether to launch my own or whether to stay with mastodon.social
Greg McVerry@Downes @cogdog I would love your thoughts. I have read some stuff about image caching issues that could cause legal trouble but I think a federated network for Mastadon is perfect for higher ed.
Local server control, privacy through data empowerment, disciplines still federating together across campus
I encourage use of Twitter with students but never require it. I have no right telling you to relinquish data to a third party.
@jgmac1106 @cogdog The first thing, in my mind, is that the students should get to choose whether to make something public or not.
That said, Mastodon *appears* to have the options you're looking for (or might, as it continues to develop). Though I don;t know about curation.
But I would depend on just Mastodon. Microcontent is one part of the ecosystem. Photography, long form writing, videos - all these matter as well. Mastodon needs to be integrated with other services.
Adam Procter 🐹@jgmac1106 already following you so all good :D is conversation about decentralized LMS have a hash tag. also its slow at the moment but comments on researchnot.es would be very welcome
@adamprocter What is the hashtag? I was reading all the webmentions convo from W3C working group and getting excited that we are close.
@jgmac1106 sorry I mean is there one - W£C working group ok ill try and catch up in fact my next section to write up is on P2P and decentralisation so thats good timing :D
@adamprocter #OpenLMS #DecentralLMS #TheWeb what do people prefer for discussing decentralized empowering student first LMS? cc @Downes @cogdog @chrismartin @dajbelshaw
Tooter formerly known as Doug@adamprocter @Downes @cogdog @chrismartin @jgmac1106 Blackboard.
Sorry, I think Discourse would be a good option.
@dajbelshaw @adamprocter @Downes @cogdog @chrismartin Ha, besides HackerNews do people still use forums?
@jgmac1106 @adamprocter @Downes @cogdog @chrismartin Yep! I've just joined: https://community.coops.tech/