Roger Verhoeven @RogerVerhoeven@botsin.space

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Masto.host makes hosting your own Mastodon instance really easy: they do the installation, maintenance and upgrades, you do the non-technical stuff. You can follow them at:

➡️ @mastohost

More info on their website at https://masto.host

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Fedi #SelfHosting #Hosting #ManagedHosting #Federation #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Instances

You can now install the Mastodon for #iOS TestFlight through the link on Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mastodon-for-ios-52849908

I am happy to reveal that a non-profit legal entity for Mastodon, Mastodon gGmbH, is in the process of being entered into the German company register.

For context, I have been operating as a sole proprietor so far.

It's been in the works for 8 months but I didn't want to announce anything until everything was finalized just in case it didn't work out. Yesterday, I paid in the starting capital.

It wouldn't be possible without the help and advice of @mellifluousbox. More to follow in blog form.

Please boost

Which #universities are on #Mastodon / Fediverse?
Welche #Universitäten sind im #Fediverse?

Official:
• @unihohenheim Uni #Hohenheim, #Germany
• @unijena Uni #Jena, Germany

Own server:
• https://mastodon.utwente.nl/about @utwente #UTwente, #Netherlands
• https://metu.life/about/ @Tuan #Metu, #Turkey
• https://mastodon.mit.edu/about @maxj @dukhovni #MIT, #USA
• https://mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu/about @staff UC #Berkeley, USA

Students’ Committee:
• @astatu #AStA #TUBerlin #Berlin, Germany.

Any missing?

Recent appearances:

* Talking "Robot Artists & Black Swans" with Bruce Sterling
https://archive.org/details/robot-artists-black-swans-book-people-event-with-bruce-sterling-and-cory-doctorow-2021-04-29

* The Right to Repair Movement, Monopolies, and Solarpunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmosdDCrL-4

* The surveillance state, digital monopolies, and why we should be worried (Podsongs)
https://anchor.fm/podsongs/episodes/Cory-Doctorow-on-the-Surveillance-State--digital-monopolies--and-why-we-should-be-worried-eso43k

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Y'know, the #nobot convention is the wrong way to do it. It allows bot followers unless actively prohibited.

It should really be #yesbot--that is, bots are not allowed to follow unless you EXPLICITLY allow them.

Privacy should always be the default.

@pagrus I found it charming how the early Twitter bots would @ people unsolicited with random goofy things. I kind of want there to be a #yesbot tag here to opt in to stuff like that... but it seems like that would mostly just encourage all the scraper bots

Here's me trying to create participation. 'Your Instant Online Learning Community' slides, audio and video. https://www.downes.ca/presentation/545