Tag: norge

  • 5 years of oslo.town

    5 years of oslo.town

    As we find ourselves in the midst of November, it’s a poignant reminder that it’s been 5 years since I had the privilege of creating oslo.town – a Mastodon server for the people of Oslo’s capital and the first Norwegian-based Mastodon server to exist.

    Mastodon is a social network that can be compared to Twitter, but with a lot better ethics around how it works. Instead of being one big network owned by one monopolistic company, it’s made up of many smaller sites that talk to each other to create one big network. And oslo.town is one of those sites!

    You can join the 2,305 members of oslo.town to follow and post to the the millions of people who have chosen to join one of the other servers around the globe.

    The community is alive and well thanks to its amazing members! While some people come and go, we have around 240 dedicated oslo.town folk who keep coming back month after month.

    I’m really lucky that some of our members are so generous and help to keep oslo.town running. They donate their own money through Patreon, Ko-Fi, PayPal or Vipps so that I don’t have to pay for everything myself. Thanks to them, we can keep the site running with minimal costs.

    Tusen-tusen-tusen takk! Thank you!

    That thanks should be extended to @hugo@masto.pt at masto.host who set us up with the server and has been doing a fine job of maintaining that ever since, ensuring we are always running the latest version of Mastodon.

    And a shout out to @angristan@mstdn.io who hosted the first ever Mastodon server that I joined back in 2017 and inspired me to start my own, and to @Gargron@mastodon.social for, you know, creating Mastodon.

    Five years has flown by!
    Let’s check back in for our ten-year anniversary.

    ✌️

  • oslo.town

    oslo.town

    Previously, on this blog, I have mentioned Mastodon – the free and open source social network that is akin to Twitter. The more keen-eyed reader might have also noticed that my username on Mastodon was @lychee@mstdn.io

    If you have never heard of Mastodon before and wonder how it’s different from Twitter or Facebook, then you can watch this short video:

    Well, after spending some time playing around with what the social network has to offer, I decided to create my own community at oslo.town

    My new username on Mastodon is @matt@oslo.town and whilst the website domain is clearly targeted to residents of Norway’s capital city of Oslo – anyone is welcome to join. Sign up to Mastodon today!

    If you don’t want to sign up to oslo.town, maybe one of these other communities tickles your fancy:

    And remember: you can sign up to any local community and still connect with the wider world. So, regardless of your Mastodon username, follow me:

    @matt@oslo.town

    Thanks.