It's only open for official Internet Archive role accounts and employees. We don't really have the time or resources to have a fully-running open-registration community from the server. But you can definitely visit it if you're on Mastodon to find official accounts and employees to connect with.
sorry (I'm the OP), I was enthusiastic about your instance and did not see you had open regs. I would have refrained from sharing if I had noticed until you had the opportunity to switch.
Why are you censoring the Internet Archive? This is supposed to be a library-like resource, not a opportunity to cover up the misdeeds of members of today's sacred caste.
But it isn't for internal use, is it? It's fully federated and you can follow the accounts on there from every other server. Thry just don't allow everyone to create accounts on that server.
The purpose seems to be for people who work for Internet Archive to be able to have an official presence on the fediverse for public announcements. Things that would be tweeted by various people connected with the IA can now also be tooted.
Enough of the kids have flocked to Mastodon that articles bemoaning the death of the platform and ruin of the culture have already been written, admins have closed instances to new members and an almost xenophobic hostility towards Twitter newcomers is becoming commonplace. If that's not a sign of some degree of success, I don't know what is.
It doesn’t require any mental model more complicated than email to understand this. They’re running a server so people in their org can have mastodon addresses under @archive.org. You can follow, send, or receive messages to mastodon accounts on the archive.org domain, but you can’t have an account there yourself.
Similarly, you can send emails to people with @archive.org email addresses, but you can’t send email from an @archive.org email address (unless somebody at the internet archive let’s you)
Aww, I was going to suggest changing the submitted URL to be the "/public" of Mastodon instances which allows previewing who's there and what they're talking about, but it seems theirs has it switched off: https://mastodon.archive.org/public is a 404
Having companies run ActivityPub servers on their own domain makes technically a lot more sense than begging/buying a blue checkmark from somebody else.
This is relevant to my interests because I don't want the hassle of running a rails app, but I sure would love to host enough of the endpoints to make my existing vps accept and transmit ActivityPub messages. Like a single-user server (which I fully recognize would remove any "Local Timeline" view but OTOH would mitigate having to switch servers/losing control of my fediverse identity
The ActivityPub spec itself seems pretty approachable, but a couple of alternative implementations I saw recently mention "Mastodon compatible" so I wonder how far it has deviated from the actual spec
I signed up (who wouldn't, this internet institution is an institution) but then had another look at the rules and was wondering: Is this meant as an IA employee-only resource?
Would love a bot we can follow that will archive our feeds. This would be doable even without an Internet Archive server- anyone could write a bot to follow & submit content to Internet Archive- but it'd be cool to see it officially hosted at Internet Archive itself.
Anyhow, cool to see!! Welcome to the fediverse Internet Archive, glad to have you here!
One question I have about these employer-run mastodon servers- what if you wanted to say something bad about your employer? Seems like that wouldn’t really work out well.
My point is that Mastodon existed before it was as famous as it is now, and will continue to exist after, because it never needed to be famous to exist in the first place, unlike Clubhouse.
and how is it opposing my comment? I just said it's fad enjoying its 15 minutes of fame with bunch of people promoting it right now before it will be all forgotten again in few months
we all remember that "huge" WhatsApp exodus due to privacy policy, this is exactly same thing
It's only open for official Internet Archive role accounts and employees. We don't really have the time or resources to have a fully-running open-registration community from the server. But you can definitely visit it if you're on Mastodon to find official accounts and employees to connect with.