Is there a Mastodon instance for Slackware community?

Originally Posted by bassmadrigal So, for me, I probably won't get a mastodon account, because I don't see myself using it.

I deleted my FB account in February 2019. I have not used social media for 11 months. LQ and Slackware IRC on freenode is as close as I get to social media these days. I don't miss it.

Originally Posted by hitest I deleted my FB account in February 2019. I have not used social media for 11 months. LQ and Slackware IRC on freenode is as close as I get to social media these days. I don't miss it.

What do you use when on mobile? Surely not this forum i guess...

Originally Posted by jarane What do you use when on mobile? Surely not this forum i guess...

I do get e-mail notifications from LQ on my cellphone; and I do on occasion comment here on LQ from my cellphone. I don't have any social media applications on my phone.
I use my cellphone for calling, texting, emailing, word processing, surfing the Internet, and photography.

Originally Posted by jarane What do you use when on mobile? Surely not this forum i guess...

There's LQ mobile at least on android. Not much features, an annoying bug with polls but it does the job for reading and posting for the most.

Originally Posted by Tonus Originally Posted by jarane What do you use when on mobile? Surely not this forum i guess... There's LQ mobile at least on android. Not much features, an annoying bug with polls but it does the job for reading and posting for the most.

Oh nice! Didn't know that, good that it's there

Originally Posted by Tonus There's LQ mobile at least on android. Not much features, an annoying bug with polls but it does the job for reading and posting for the most.

Thanks! I'm planning to move back to Android in the Spring. At the moment I have an iPhone (this has been an interesting experiment).

Originally Posted by madridsecreto It would probably be easier to set up a Pleroma instance instead of a Mastodon one. Pleroma is much easier on resources (and thus cheaper for whoever's hosting the instance). It also has a larger character limit, better support for the ActivityPub standard, and it's not subject to Gargron's latest whims.

I set up a pleroma instance at https://roots.globaltree.net -- its not slackware specific; but it's running on slackware! However, I turned federating off, until I have time to blacklist everything and only allow a whitelist -- when I turned federating on, some of the feeds had content too unsuitable for my taste.

An active user on Mastodon from early on.
Looking forward to seeing my pinned #Slackware column become more active.