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Some background at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337586 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T337586

Kye 3y ago
I've heard the process inside organizations of getting approval to do a new social media thing can be involved. It's interesting to see one of those discussions out in public.
- ploum 3y ago
  Imagine for a second what the discussions could be for the official European institutions to open their own instance? https://social.network.europa.eu/explore https://social.network.europa.eu/explore (and yes, it was created early 2022, before Musk takeover of Twitter)
  - Kye 3y ago
    They also have a PeerTube instance. https://tube.network.europa.eu/videos/overview https://tube.network.europa.eu/videos/overview
- aaronharnly 3y ago
  Yes, I take some solace from the fact that most of the comments on the ticket are in the nature of: - “Wait, I don’t think Team X can do this, it needs to be approved by Team Y and then handed to Team Z”, followed by - “I thought our policy was not to do this?” - “No there’s no policy not to do this” - “Well maybe the policy was that we do do not this” - “Does Team Z even get notified about tickets here?” etc…
  - neilv 3y ago
    How I try to avoid most institutional knowledge and communication problems like that is with... a trusted wiki. They should ask around, see if anyone in the organization is familiar with wikis and could help them get started.
- riffic 3y ago
  transparency aside it's amazing how fast they were able to roll this. Heads up but if anyone's got questions about the Mastodon software, community, wider ecosystem et cetera you're more than welcome to hop into the unofficial Mastodon subreddit and ask away. saying this as one of the /r/Mastodon mods.
  - ruffsl 3y ago
    Is there a community on Lemmy for Mastodon mods and admins? Hosting support discussions about Fediverse platforms on Fediverse platforms seems like an opportunity to dog food more it's development.
    - riffic 3y ago
      On Mastodon itself people like to use the #MastoAdmin hashtag. Good point about Lemmy. I remember reading the Discourse software was considering federation/ActivityPub support but haven't seen any traction there.
ChrisArchitect 3y ago
Did they write anywhere else about what they're actual plan for this instance is? A whole new service to operate and moderate... are they maintaining their other social platform accounts etc.
- marksomnian 3y ago
  There's some (vague, nonspecific) goals in the Google Doc linked on the phab ticket (though someone did point out that the doc was created weeks after the ticket was filed).

Kye 3y ago

I've heard the process inside organizations of getting approval to do a new social media thing can be involved. It's interesting to see one of those discussions out in public.

ploum 3y ago
Imagine for a second what the discussions could be for the official European institutions to open their own instance? https://social.network.europa.eu/explore https://social.network.europa.eu/explore (and yes, it was created early 2022, before Musk takeover of Twitter)
- Kye 3y ago
  They also have a PeerTube instance. https://tube.network.europa.eu/videos/overview https://tube.network.europa.eu/videos/overview
aaronharnly 3y ago
Yes, I take some solace from the fact that most of the comments on the ticket are in the nature of: - “Wait, I don’t think Team X can do this, it needs to be approved by Team Y and then handed to Team Z”, followed by - “I thought our policy was not to do this?” - “No there’s no policy not to do this” - “Well maybe the policy was that we do do not this” - “Does Team Z even get notified about tickets here?” etc…
- neilv 3y ago
  How I try to avoid most institutional knowledge and communication problems like that is with... a trusted wiki. They should ask around, see if anyone in the organization is familiar with wikis and could help them get started.
riffic 3y ago
transparency aside it's amazing how fast they were able to roll this. Heads up but if anyone's got questions about the Mastodon software, community, wider ecosystem et cetera you're more than welcome to hop into the unofficial Mastodon subreddit and ask away. saying this as one of the /r/Mastodon mods.
- ruffsl 3y ago
  Is there a community on Lemmy for Mastodon mods and admins? Hosting support discussions about Fediverse platforms on Fediverse platforms seems like an opportunity to dog food more it's development.
  - riffic 3y ago
    On Mastodon itself people like to use the #MastoAdmin hashtag. Good point about Lemmy. I remember reading the Discourse software was considering federation/ActivityPub support but haven't seen any traction there.

ChrisArchitect 3y ago

Did they write anywhere else about what they're actual plan for this instance is? A whole new service to operate and moderate... are they maintaining their other social platform accounts etc.

marksomnian 3y ago
There's some (vague, nonspecific) goals in the Google Doc linked on the phab ticket (though someone did point out that the doc was created weeks after the ticket was filed).