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  • rwg@aoir.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
    rwg@aoir.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
    rwg@aoir.social
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    #1

    Hey, #admins!

    Along with a grad student, I am working on a paper the surveys Mastodon (and forks -- Hometown, Glitch) servers that have some connection to #Canada.

    We have done a lot of digging and have found ~40 instances that have some connection to Canada. We presented our work recently:

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    Mapping Canadian Social Media: News Sharing on Canadian Mastodon Instances

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    (robertwgehl.org)

    But! Maybe we're missing some. If you are willing to share, please let me know if your Mastodon/fork instance meets this criteria.

    Boosts appreciated!

    scott@mastodon.clitheroe.caS cbielstein@techhub.socialC ricci@discuss.systemsR rwg@aoir.socialR 4 Replies Last reply
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    • rwg@aoir.socialR rwg@aoir.social

      Hey, #admins!

      Along with a grad student, I am working on a paper the surveys Mastodon (and forks -- Hometown, Glitch) servers that have some connection to #Canada.

      We have done a lot of digging and have found ~40 instances that have some connection to Canada. We presented our work recently:

      Link Preview Image
      Mapping Canadian Social Media: News Sharing on Canadian Mastodon Instances

      favicon

      (robertwgehl.org)

      But! Maybe we're missing some. If you are willing to share, please let me know if your Mastodon/fork instance meets this criteria.

      Boosts appreciated!

      scott@mastodon.clitheroe.caS This user is from outside of this forum
      scott@mastodon.clitheroe.caS This user is from outside of this forum
      scott@mastodon.clitheroe.ca
      wrote last edited by
      #2

      @rwg I went through your slide deck - I like it! Personally, I think the "servers of one" cadre of Canadians deserves some mention - and not because I want my dot on the map 🙂 But rather, because we stand alongside our larger Canadian instance colleagues as full peers and partners in independence from mainstream foreign social media.

      If nothing else, it's important to note and promote that community, in a fediverse context, can be as small as a neighborhood block, or even one house 🙂

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      • scott@mastodon.clitheroe.caS scott@mastodon.clitheroe.ca

        @rwg I went through your slide deck - I like it! Personally, I think the "servers of one" cadre of Canadians deserves some mention - and not because I want my dot on the map 🙂 But rather, because we stand alongside our larger Canadian instance colleagues as full peers and partners in independence from mainstream foreign social media.

        If nothing else, it's important to note and promote that community, in a fediverse context, can be as small as a neighborhood block, or even one house 🙂

        rwg@aoir.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
        rwg@aoir.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
        rwg@aoir.social
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        @scott Agreed! We talk about servers of one in the full paper, but for the presentation, I didn't have time. One issue I constantly face is that my audiences still may not really know what the fediverse is, so explaining instances can get tricky.

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        • rwg@aoir.socialR rwg@aoir.social

          Hey, #admins!

          Along with a grad student, I am working on a paper the surveys Mastodon (and forks -- Hometown, Glitch) servers that have some connection to #Canada.

          We have done a lot of digging and have found ~40 instances that have some connection to Canada. We presented our work recently:

          Link Preview Image
          Mapping Canadian Social Media: News Sharing on Canadian Mastodon Instances

          favicon

          (robertwgehl.org)

          But! Maybe we're missing some. If you are willing to share, please let me know if your Mastodon/fork instance meets this criteria.

          Boosts appreciated!

          cbielstein@techhub.socialC This user is from outside of this forum
          cbielstein@techhub.socialC This user is from outside of this forum
          cbielstein@techhub.social
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          #4

          @rwg I liked the presentation. Maybe I missed the list of servers, so I apologize if I'm repeating... But do you have TechHub.social?

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          • cbielstein@techhub.socialC cbielstein@techhub.social

            @rwg I liked the presentation. Maybe I missed the list of servers, so I apologize if I'm repeating... But do you have TechHub.social?

            rwg@aoir.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
            rwg@aoir.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
            rwg@aoir.social
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            #5

            @cbielstein No! Thank you!

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            • rwg@aoir.socialR rwg@aoir.social

              Hey, #admins!

              Along with a grad student, I am working on a paper the surveys Mastodon (and forks -- Hometown, Glitch) servers that have some connection to #Canada.

              We have done a lot of digging and have found ~40 instances that have some connection to Canada. We presented our work recently:

              Link Preview Image
              Mapping Canadian Social Media: News Sharing on Canadian Mastodon Instances

              favicon

              (robertwgehl.org)

              But! Maybe we're missing some. If you are willing to share, please let me know if your Mastodon/fork instance meets this criteria.

              Boosts appreciated!

              ricci@discuss.systemsR This user is from outside of this forum
              ricci@discuss.systemsR This user is from outside of this forum
              ricci@discuss.systems
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              #6

              @rwg

              Here's a list of Fediverse instances that are physically located in Canada. Of course, being physically located there doesn't necessarily mean it meets your criteria, and there are almost certainly servers that meet your criteria that are physically located outside the country. But, here's a big list (789 instances) if it's of any use 🙂

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              ownCloud - A safe home for all your data

              ca-instances.txt is publicly shared

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              ownCloud (owncloud.ricci.io)

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              • rwg@aoir.socialR rwg@aoir.social

                Hey, #admins!

                Along with a grad student, I am working on a paper the surveys Mastodon (and forks -- Hometown, Glitch) servers that have some connection to #Canada.

                We have done a lot of digging and have found ~40 instances that have some connection to Canada. We presented our work recently:

                Link Preview Image
                Mapping Canadian Social Media: News Sharing on Canadian Mastodon Instances

                favicon

                (robertwgehl.org)

                But! Maybe we're missing some. If you are willing to share, please let me know if your Mastodon/fork instance meets this criteria.

                Boosts appreciated!

                rwg@aoir.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
                rwg@aoir.socialR This user is from outside of this forum
                rwg@aoir.social
                wrote last edited by
                #7

                Just wanted to thank everyone! With your help we found a handful of new instances we missed.

                All told we're pretty confident there are 56 Mastodon instances with a strong connection to Canada. We think our method could easily be expanded to account for other software, too. Ghost and GoToSocial, for example, or older systems like PeerTube.

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