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Folks, What are your recommendations for some Mastodon communities which might be of interest to typical HN audience and are 'absolutely legal'?

sohkamyung 5y ago
For those with an interest in books, try BookWyrm [1]. It's a Mastodon instance that caters for books (think 'federated Goodreads'). I use it to put up my reviews of books and to find new books and bookish people. [1] https://bookwyrm.social/ https://bookwyrm.social/
- gaius_baltar 5y ago
  Beware that Bookwyrm is distributed under the "Anticapitalist software license" [1] so you must be very veyr very careful before using it. It may be actually impossible to legally deploy it for a lot of people. [1] https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENSE.md https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...
apetresc 5y ago
I recommend https://fosstodon.org/ https://fosstodon.org/
- themodelplumber 5y ago
  I'm curious, is there any reason to sign up here if one is already on another tech instance?
  - boyter 5y ago
    Its activity pub so no? Assuming they have not blocked either other you should just follow across the peers.
  - 3np 5y ago
    The only reason I see would be if you want your posts to reach people you don't know and who don't follow you; they will end up on the local timeline of the instance you're on. Conversely if you don't want to spend time with setting up relays/subscriptions (which can get you the same thing) and want to easily discover things on the local timeline there, the local GUI helps with that. IMO that Mastodon's timelines work this way by default for non-private instances is unfortunate as it conflates physical infrastructure with social community too much. Other than that it should all be the same. Theoretically you should also be able to set up "relay accounts" on foreign servers that can mirror your profile and just mirror/reshare your content there. It's not something I've seen already so you'd probably have to script your own bot for that.
2Gkashmiri 5y ago
mastodon.social is managed by gargron, the dev of mastodon himself so he has an added incentive to keep that community as safe as possible
rvieira 5y ago
https://mathstodon.xyz https://mathstodon.xyz is a hangout for mathematicians.
robjan 5y ago
Probably https://mastodon.technology https://mastodon.technology
krapp 5y ago
mastodon.technology and gamemaking.social

sohkamyung 5y ago

For those with an interest in books, try BookWyrm [1]. It's a Mastodon instance that caters for books (think 'federated Goodreads'). I use it to put up my reviews of books and to find new books and bookish people. [1] https://bookwyrm.social/ https://bookwyrm.social/

gaius_baltar 5y ago
Beware that Bookwyrm is distributed under the "Anticapitalist software license" [1] so you must be very veyr very careful before using it. It may be actually impossible to legally deploy it for a lot of people. [1] https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENSE.md https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/blob/main/LICENS...

apetresc 5y ago

I recommend https://fosstodon.org/ https://fosstodon.org/

themodelplumber 5y ago
I'm curious, is there any reason to sign up here if one is already on another tech instance?
- boyter 5y ago
  Its activity pub so no? Assuming they have not blocked either other you should just follow across the peers.
- 3np 5y ago
  The only reason I see would be if you want your posts to reach people you don't know and who don't follow you; they will end up on the local timeline of the instance you're on. Conversely if you don't want to spend time with setting up relays/subscriptions (which can get you the same thing) and want to easily discover things on the local timeline there, the local GUI helps with that. IMO that Mastodon's timelines work this way by default for non-private instances is unfortunate as it conflates physical infrastructure with social community too much. Other than that it should all be the same. Theoretically you should also be able to set up "relay accounts" on foreign servers that can mirror your profile and just mirror/reshare your content there. It's not something I've seen already so you'd probably have to script your own bot for that.

2Gkashmiri 5y ago

mastodon.social is managed by gargron, the dev of mastodon himself so he has an added incentive to keep that community as safe as possible

rvieira 5y ago

https://mathstodon.xyz https://mathstodon.xyz is a hangout for mathematicians.

robjan 5y ago

Probably https://mastodon.technology https://mastodon.technology

krapp 5y ago

mastodon.technology and gamemaking.social