Episode 129a - When Elon Ruins your Weekend

Welcome to Episode 129a Main Topic

Mastodon, with Jerry! 


Setup and Background

Is he a Llama?



Twitter changed hands

New owner appears insane

People are afraid that their social network of choice is
going down the tubes

They are looking for a place to go



Decentralized, and federated

The platform isnt controlled by one party

It effectively cannot be taken away.



Why is that important?

Fediverse? Activitypub? what’s that all about?



Open Source

Why is _that_ important?





Who is Jerry?

A little about Twitter, just for reference

Why did people like Twitter to begin with?  Why not
one of the other social networks? 

What is Mastodon?



So What’s it like when your hobby becomes a life raft?

What is that?

What made you decide to start it up?

And what happened in the past few weeks? 

How is it hosted? 

Cloud? Metal? Vms?



How do you afford it??

https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange 





Infosec.exchange



Links and things

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon 

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/switch-twitter-mastodon


https://www.undrground.org/2022/11/13/building-a-mastodon-instance-to-vacate-birdsite-on-rhel-in-podman/ 





 


 


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Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2
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