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Mastodon OSM account?

User guide: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Using-Mastodon/User-guide.md

Tool for finding twitter friends on mastodon: https://mastodon-bridge.herokuapp.com/

Choosing an instance

There are many instances/servers. People at the same instance/server as we, see our messages on their local timeline (other servers show our messages in the "federated" (connected servers') timeline if they have been connected with our chosen server)

The main instance (mastodon.social) is closed for registrations atm. Lists of others:

https://instances.mastodon.xyz/

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Using-Mastodon/List-of-Mastodon-instances.md

Instance suggestions: http://tooter.today/

Possible criteria:

if we decide to have an active account, we probably need an instance that

federates with most others

is reliable

updates quickly

supports ipv6 (ambivalent for mastodon.cc. 1st link says it supports it, 2nd not)

supports https

reasonable privacy policy

there are no terms that might prohibit us from using it (i.e. saying that all uploaded material is then available under specific license) >>https://mastodon.cc/terms

has short domain

policy about ads

they have no problem with accounts of projects such as OSM

policy about abusing or nsfw posts (if we are hosted at an instance that has many problematic posts, it might be denied federation by other instances

access to a tool that reposts OSM tweets from Twitter automatically

Interesting instances:

Nasqueron https://social.nasqueron.org/about/more "focus on free culture, ethics and to be a positive change"

they are also developing "a cartography solution to build a vectorial thematic map from a blank map and a dataset" https://agora.nasqueron.org/Tasacora + https://devcentral.nasqueron.org/tag/tasacora/ (OSM mentioned in this link)