Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Mastodon distro Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2023 23:52:02 +0100 Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ghW/BX14OpUZFWJdb6mJ/A5RjyqTaHHN+mRty9pVIMN229Q6eJ X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:YuUuyEbeXGQ/xIBN7nmfdhfy17g= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.7.1 Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:37034 On 2023-02-12 21:20, The Doctor wrote: > In article , > Carlos E.R. wrote: >> On 2023-02-12 14:38, The Doctor wrote: >>> In article , >>> Carlos E.R. wrote: >>>> On 2023-02-11 23:52, The Doctor wrote: ... >>> Never heard of Mastodon social media site then. >> >> No. >> >> I thought, though, it might be some twiter clone made by trumpists >> evicted from tuiter. Not been USAian, that doesn't interest me at all. >> Nor tuiter itself. >> >> >> >> >> Mastodon (social network) >> >> Mastodon is free and open-source software for running self-hosted social >> networking services. It has microblogging features similar to Twitter, >> which are offered by a large number of independently run nodes, known as >> instances, each with its own code of conduct, terms of service, privacy >> policy, privacy options, and content moderation policies.[6][7][8] >> >> Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon instance (also called a >> server), which can interoperate as a federated social network, allowing >> users on different instances to interact with each other. This is >> intended to give users the flexibility to select a node whose policies >> they prefer, but keep access to a larger social network. Mastodon is >> also part of the Fediverse ensemble of computer servers, which use >> shared protocols allowing users to interact with other users on >> computers running compatible software packages[9] such as PeerTube and >> Friendica. Mastodon is crowdfunded and does not contain ads. >> >> Mastodon was created by Eugen Rochko and announced on Hacker News in >> October 2016,[10] and gained significant adoption in 2022 in the wake of >> Twitter's acquisition by Elon Musk.[11] >> >> The project is maintained by German non-profit Mastodon gGmbH.[12] >> >> -- >> Cheers, Carlos. >> > > That one! It needs a distro! Why? -- Cheers, Carlos.