Yeah, that was a pick I made for an Official Ubuntu CA kind of account. If you want to open a personal account instances.social is a great way to find someplace to sign up (maybe you'll end up on my instance ;) ) that's your speed.
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 7:36 PM jim <j...@well.com> wrote: > > If you are looking for a more open-themed conversational social media > experience, we would recommend looking at https://instances.social/ for a > more suitable entrance to the fediverse. > > > On 10/06/2018 01:31 AM, Anna wrote: > > It's pretty easy to get going, the hardest part is picking an instance > probably. https://floss.social is one I found that seems primarily > focused on FLOSS, which might be a good candidate. Doesn't seem to be any > ubuntu-centric ones though. > > Running a Mastodon server would be pretty cool too, but would necessitate > a bit more involvement and considering how to handle who gets accounts, > etc. Most Mastodon instances run on Ubuntu (including mine!) so it'd be > highly appropriate, but getting everyone in the group sold on the concept > and interested in such a thing to make it worth the server cost and admin > labor would be the biggest issue I think :) > > Pretty much all of identi.ca's momentum went into Mastodon, and is > picking up way more steam than identi.ca ever did, especially with its > focus on fixing a lot of the social problems inherent to platforms like > twitter and facebook. > > I'm personally getting rather passionate about it because it's the first > chance I've seen for a break away from closed, corporate networks that > subsist off of data mining and, quite literally, misery, into something > that is run by individuals and communities for each others' mutual benefit. > I used to be extremely active on Twitter but did not realize just how bad > and unhealthy it was for me until I got away from it by participating in > a... let's call it a much healthier take on the microblogging concept, that > isn't 97% anger and hate speech. > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:28 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph <l...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > >> I'm working with Charlie to get him access to some of our other social >> media accounts. Maybe you could work with him to create a Mastodon >> account for the team? We had an identi.ca account long ago, but it >> fizzled out when the rest of that service did. >> >> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:10 PM Anna <zeromus...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Failing a mastodon server, at least having a presence on mastodon would >> probably be a good idea, considering it's probably the most promising FLOSS >> social media project at the moment. I've been really down on that our only >> social media options are corporate, but there's been a huge uptick in >> Mastodon usage in the last few months and it's been lively and active to >> the point where I don't even care about Twitter anymore, which I used to >> live on. >> > >> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:06 PM Elizabeth K. Joseph <l...@ubuntu.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 1:42 PM Andrew R Gross <and...@shrad.org> >> wrote: >> >> > Is there an instagram page? >> >> >> >> There is a Flickr account, but I was the only one who ever used it and >> >> it was pretty short-lived https://www.flickr.com/photos/ubuntu-us-ca/ >> >> >> >> Instead, mostly people just take their own photos of events and share >> >> them from their own accounts. >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >> >> Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com >> >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >> > >> > -- >> > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >> > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com >> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >> >> >> >> -- >> Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 >> >> -- >> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list >> Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >> > > > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > Ubuntu-us-ca@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca >
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