I’m personally excited to see BlueSky and Threads interface with Mastodon. Decentralization in all its forms has gotten me excited about social media again. I welcome interoperability. Not everything has to lead to an “embrace extend extinguish” situation.
🗞️Big news: The Driver’s Seat Cooperative is transitioning their tools for gig workers to the @princeton Workers’ Algorithm Observatory we’ve been running.
We’re excited to expand our suite of worker-led technologies.
We're looking for suggestions for creative subdomains for a Mastodon server at a university.
The main constraint is that the university doesn’t want to let us use a third-level domain like foo.princeton.edu, but they might be okay with foo.bar.princeton.edu.
What would be a good foo.bar subdomain?
Some ideas: fedi.verse.princeton.edu activity.pub.princeton.edu
Any other ones?
P.S. Using mastodon in the domain might not be a good long-term idea because the software might change.
Do you know librarians who have created Mastodon instances?
A librarian at my institution is interested in advocating for creating one. It might be helpful to read about other librarians' experiences doing this or the existence of some other cases managed by libraries.
@atomicpoet counter idea: a Mastodon instance only for “notable people.” As long as the people are not notable for their toxicity, it would boost the Fediverse’s visibility and benefit those who miss following them on here.
Now that the |Fediverse and Mastodon are a tiny bit more popular, it'd be easier to explain what we're trying to build at @princeton: a federated open-source food delivery platform.
Like Mastodon meets DoorDash. We're even using ActivityPub.
The vision: one day each town can run its own instance. Some towns can run multiple instances. Customers will use their preferred mobile client to connect to their nearest/preferred instance.
Instances can be local coops of restaurants/couriers.
Faculty at Princeton Computer Science. Board member at Crisis Text Line.I build and study social computing systems. Currently working on community-owned platforms and social augmented reality.📍🇲🇽→MIT→MSR→Snap→Princeton#HumanComputerInteraction#SocialComputing #AugmentedReality #GigWork