Gordon Gow @ggow@mastodon1.artsrn.ualberta.ca

Random thoughts while reading Ben Tarnoff’s Internet for the People: first generation Frdiverse modeled on existing social media. Next gen could take online sociality somewhere else. The foundation is ActivityPub. Social ontology is most important. What is it to be social?

My article on the recent surge of interest in Mastodon is now out. https://theconversation.com/people-are-leaving-twitter-for-mastodon-but-are-they-ready-for-democratic-social-media-194220

@wisem @jeffjarvis keep me posted on your server initiative. How will you host it?

@ntnsndr @django ggow@ualberta.ca

@django @ntnsndr happy to connect. We are using it here @UAlberta

@chanelrobin_umontreal welcome, bienvenue! 👋

Bluesky is an R&D spin-off from Twitter that is looking into decentralized social networks. They released this report that looks at decentralization protocols:https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular.im/981b258141aa0b197804127cd2f7d298757bad20

@tuanle check out this site:https://runyourown.social/

WordPress will federate with Mastodon and other social networks using the ActivityPub standard. There are currently a couple of plugins available: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/pterotype/

https://joinplu.me/ is a federated blogging platform #fediverse

Testing from the iPhone with https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mastodon-for-iphone-and-ipad/id1571998974

Testing from iPhone app https://tooot.app

Here's our listing on Fediverse Observer: https://fediverse.observer/mastodon1.artsrn.ualberta.ca

Thank you @django for contacting us and providing this link to the https://fediverse.observer/ map for locating Fediverse instances around the world.

Testing!

Testing for Tuan!

@dorisweetie Hi Doris!

@smith welcome, Richard!

@keltyn Hello!