| Website | https://jordanh.net |
| Location | Canberra, Australia |
| Directory | https://civictech.club |
Setting up my own Mastodon instance on fly.io but it doesn't seem to be federating with anywhere else - eg. try following @[email protected]
Fellow self-hosting friends, any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Looking closely at verifiable credentials and claims at the moment.
Are there any digital government teams making progress in this area?
Wow, this is very interesting. Smalltown is a new fork of Mastodon specifically for civic communities looking to host their own social media. It is being developed at Ethan Zuckerman's lab at UMass Amherst.
https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/09/28/welcome-to-smalltown/
(It's explicitly inspired by Hometown and very nicely links to my Patreon on their github, too.)
At iDPI we’re agitating for a smaller future of the Internet. To illustrate this, it’s helpful to think about rooms. Offline, there are all sorts of rooms that we gather in: there are churches, bars, gyms—what we do in each of those is pretty different. Facebook is like a big conference center, with high ceilings,… Continue reading Welcome to Smalltown, a Civic Space Online
First news organization to stand up its federated Mastodon server with a trustable domain (e.g. http://follow.washingtonpost.com) and accounts for its staff for people to follow gets a prize.
Also, proposal for a standardized domain for news orgs, e.g. follow.bbcnews.com, follow.nytimes.com, and/or autodiscovery of a mastodon server for a parent domain e.g. a socialnetworks.txt
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