Yes, I know some early members of the Oulipo instance :) Hosting and bandwidth costs, even limited, are to be expected. Most important resource is time from a volunteer sysadmin (at least one). Pretty much sure e.g. coworking.ch could cover for the very limited hosting costs. Do we have a sysadmin volunteering? ;)
An instance where you can't technically post a toot with "co-working" in it? ^^ #deathtothehyphen *- Yann "shalf" Heurtaux* *Conversationalist* @shalf <https://twitter.com/shalf> | shalf.me | [email protected] | +41 78 845 9266 Skype: live:yh_127 | Hangout/Drive/Google products : [email protected] On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Alex Hillman <[email protected] > wrote: > I recently joined a custom Mastadon server that has a funny tweak: you're > not allowed to use the letter "E" or any character variation on it. > > https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/its-like- > tweeting-but-you-cant-use-the-letter-e > > It's a silly constraint that leads to some rather clever writing. Not > something I've really spent much time with, but it reminds me of some of > the early internet communities that I joined in that it's relatively small > and the ability to create these special sub communities is kinda like how > forums have sub-forums, allowing more focused conversations to thrive. > > Would be fun to see something like this set up for coworking. I presume > someone has to pay for the server to keep it running, right? Or is there a > way to run one for free? > > -Alex > > > ------------------ > *The #1 mistake in community building is doing it by yourself.* > Better Coworkers: http://indyhall.org > Weekly Coworking Tips: http://coworkingweekly.com > My Audiobook: https://theindyhallway.com/ten > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 2:26 PM, Yann Heurtaux <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> I am extensively testing Mastodon (something a lot like twitter, but >> based on FOSS, decentralized: anybody can run an instance where people host >> their accounts, and the instance connects to a "Fediverse" aka a Federation >> of servers using the same software, et voilà, you get Twitter, but better, >> that passed the half-million users worldwide recently). >> >> Are there other members of this group looking forward to opening a >> coworking dedicated instance? >> Do you think that could be a cool service to offer on coworking.org? >> >> I am @[email protected] <https://mastodon.social/@shalf> if you >> wanna join and discuss this there. >> -Y. >> >> -- >> Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Coworking" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Coworking" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/coworking/5eaP8IOPtSo/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Visit this forum on the web at http://discuss.coworking.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
