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   Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:18:46 JST Evan Prodromou

   One thing that's blowing my mind is how many great organizations host Mastodon instances on their main domain. mastodon.mit.edu? social.kernel.org? Very cool!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:20:13 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Space Hobo Actual

     @spacehobo everything old is new again

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     Space Hobo Actual (spacehobo@teh.entar.net)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:20:14 JST Space Hobo Actual

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     @evan Apparently the MIT one was set up by students ages ago and is now neglected.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:23:06 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Cyrus

     @CyruxiME Nope. But I hope to get identi.ca upgraded and using ActivityPub sometime in the first half of 2023.

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     Cyrus (cyruxime@toot.aquilenet.fr)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:23:07 JST Cyrus

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     @evan Time for mastodon.identi.ca? ?

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:23:25 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Not Elon Musk

     @xy @spacehobo GOOD

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     Not Elon Musk (xy@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:23:30 JST Not Elon Musk

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     • Space Hobo Actual

     @spacehobo @evan That was true a few months ago, but I'm one of the new maintainers and we're now making sure the instance is getting plenty of love and attention again!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:23:49 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Not Elon Musk

     @xy @spacehobo How does the invite process work? Does anyone with an mit.edu address get to sign up?

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     Not Elon Musk (xy@mastodon.mit.edu)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:26:12 JST Not Elon Musk

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     • Space Hobo Actual

     @evan @spacehobo Yeah, anyone with an mit.edu email address can create an account.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:46:51 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • John Erickson

     @olyerickson ACK

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     John Erickson (olyerickson@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 07:46:52 JST John Erickson

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     @evan Impressive, but many organizations will not want to take this on due to potential legal liabilities. #MIT has $$$ for legal defense; many do not.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 08:06:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Alexey Skobkin

     @skobkin @drq I'd highly recommend Tim Wu's book "The Master Switch", which covers centralization and decentralization trends in many different media, from telegraph, radio, film, TV and cable TV to the Internet.

     https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15118227W/The_Master_Switch

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     Alexey Skobkin (skobkin@lor.sh)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 08:06:37 JST Alexey Skobkin

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     • Dr. Quadragon ❌

     @drq @evan
     Not so sure, but at least we're probably going in the right direction.
     Omly time will tell. Some time ago we had XMPP everywhere, but something went wrong.

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     Dr. Quadragon ❌ (drq@mastodon.ml)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 08:06:39 JST Dr. Quadragon ❌

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     @evan it's like the Web has been under the spell this whole time, which finally broke, and the Internet is relearning how to be the Internet again.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 04:47:15 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Vanny

     @Dragon2021_22 Who is that?

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     Vanny (dragon2021_22@home.social)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Nov-2022 04:47:16 JST Vanny

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     @evan home.social, too