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/      Watch us live on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month! Subscribe and hit the bell! https://www.youtube.com/IronSysadminPodcast  OR https://twitch.tv/IronSysadminPodcast   Discord Community: https://discord.gg/wmxvQ4c2H6  Matrix Space: https://matrix.to/#/#IronSysadmin:trixie.undrground.org  Find us on Twitter, and Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ironsysadmin https://www.twitter.com/ironsysadmin Subscribe wherever you find podcasts! And don't forget about our patreon! https://patreon.com/ironsysadmin   Intro and Outro music credit: Tri Tachyon, Digital MK 2http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Tri-Tachyon/