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Wow, this is very interesting. Smalltown is a new fork of Mastodon specifically for civic communities looking to host their own social media. It is being developed at Ethan Zuckerman's lab at UMass Amherst.

publicinfrastructure.org/2022/

(It's explicitly inspired by Hometown and very nicely links to my Patreon on their github, too.)

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Erik Kemp 🇪🇺

@darius Very cool that it's live @ethanz!

If you did not attend #pubconf2022 , here Ethan announces and gives context to Hometown: video.publicspaces.net/w/mcpkD

The @publicspaces conference were my favourite 2 days of 2022. Easily!

Let's see if I can get hometown up and running for my communities with @yunohost already :)

"The public sphere, where we have our conversations, is too important to leave to the market." - Ethan Zuckerman

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(((Baslow)))

@darius
*Very* encouraging to read this. It begins to address issues I've been trying to raise with #SeizeTheMeansOfCommunity

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NixFREAK -

@darius so like secret channels in IRC?

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

@darius Sweet. I was just thinking through some projects which might include a local / community-oriented Mastodon component. It's always nice when others are doing the work for you ;-)

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