Do I know anyone here who is willing to share their experience deploying an institutional Mastodon server? A contact of mine is looking for someone to discuss the experience as he works on getting a government agency to deploy their own instance. Boosts appreciated #fediverse#mastodon
@Drbruced Universities may be a special case but @uniinnsbruck just went public with their server and I suspect they are happy to share their experience.
@Drbruced I don't have experience with institutions (only my own server), but I do want to point out the model that @stefan has chosen for their TV production company loosely related to German public television (I hope I got this right).
Anyways, as far as I understood it, they made two instances https://edi.social and https://det.social where one is a regular public instance for anyone to join and the other one is restricted to members of the organisation. This way, you can have some sort of official accounts while also giving back a free instance for the public.
Keep in mind this might have changed and I might have misunderstood it. It looks like https://edi.social is being phased out. But maybe Stefan is willing to share some experience.
@Drbruced I haven't done this, but would very much like to. If the conversation doesn't have any confidential details in it, I'd love to be allowed to hear it?
@Drbruced Germany & Europe both have government owned instances. Germany at social.bund.de, Europe at social.network.europa.eu.
I haven't looked for any blog posts describing how they set it up. I can look for them tomorrow if you want me to.
Maybe a kind email to the admins of these instances can help your friend.
@GuyWithLag
If you follow federated timelines of bigger instances it pops up every now and then. There haven been sex worker positive instances too, which did even show up years after shutdown in caches
All in all I think it is not much, especially on small instances that have a focus. Someone has to follow the porn accounts to be then on your federated timeline. So less likely on professional instances that run on topic. @SteveThompson@Drbruced
Open the Federated timeline, which is available to all Mastodon users in their interface, or open the Local timeline. You don't have to look for anything. It will auto-scroll what is being posted and there it is. You can block words and domains but telling professional colleagues to. not view fed or local because they will get hit with porn is more reason they might want to use another platform. Never saw it on Twitter but know it can be there. Not sure Blueasky.
@SteveThompson
Federated timeline is defined by what the server sees.
That means if noone follows the according accounts it does not get federated to your server.
Hence: your experience greatly varies depending on the instance. @GuyWithLag@Drbruced
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