Because I'm always forgetting them, and they're annoying to look up, my user ID's for:

• mastodon.social: 17545
• hcommons.social: 109429840453119702

Also the permalink URL formats for reposts/links https://instance.org/@screenname/postID#reposted-by-userID

https://tldr.nettime.org/about/more

https://thomasmdickinson.github.io/lab-soc-about/

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Keeper of the Labyrinth </span> in Keeper of the Labyrinth: "#Mastodon #Hometown #Admin I love documentation…" - Labyrinth.Social (<time class='dt-published'>11/19/2022 01:31:45</time>)</cite></small>

In putting it together, I looked at a lot of other instances to see what kind of docs and policies they had, so now I want to pay it forward and put it out there for others to use as a basis.

If you run a small instance or are thinking of doing so, feel free to repurpose what I've put together!

Small town newspapers and libraries could set up Fediverse servers for their constituents as well.

See also: Hometown by Darius Kazemi

https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/09/28/welcome-to-smalltown/

Fork of Mastodon based on Darius Kazemi's Hometown

https://thenewstack.io/why-developers-should-experiment-with-the-fediverse/

One of the main features of Darius Kazemi's Hometown, a fork of Mastodon from 2019, is that it allows "local only posting". This gives the users an option to post their content only with a small, limited group of people instead of spreading it widely outside of their social group. In addition to helping to tummel a smaller conversation this also prevents those who are more likely to suffer from context collapse of the groups social norms from engaging and potentially souring the conversation.

This feature could also be well leveraged for small private classroom conversations between teachers and students without leaking their personal/private data or conversations that ought to be small as they learn.

Could also be fun to limit the level of federation to the level of an academic department, academic discipline, or even a university. How might one define a group or groups of publics within Mastodon so that one could choose a level at which to share their content?

https://community.reclaimhosting.com/t/mastodon-on-reclaim-cloud/3225

For those interested in doing it for edtech/classroom settings, it might be worth looking at the Hometown fork of Mastodon: https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki/Local-only-posting

The link is to a special feature that most Mastodon instances don't have: local only posting which would allow students a level of privacy and separation from the rest of the federated timeline if they choose.

I've always hoped that some of the Mastodon instances would build outside of the status update sort of content.