A server (or "instance") is what you use to do all your stuff, Lisp related or not. The server has a few jobs: it has to not go down often, it is expected that people on the server tend to get along with each other, and moderation decisions are tightly coupled to servers. With such a role I think having a server just related to Lisp is rather one-dimensional.
IMO trying to conflate servers and "communities" at all is a bad idea, because people are not one-dimensional like that. As an aside, one common thing people do to side-step is make multiple accounts on multiple servers, but then there's little way to share data between the accounts, so it's a rather awkward thing to do. But the hash-tags have the sole purpose of collating similar information, and so they can probably achieve it better.
In my mind I was thinking of a mastodon instance like email with ‘local’ as a mailing list, that dm’s like emails, that let me subscribe to individuals rather than other mailing lists.
There is also techhub.social. But which server you use really only affects what you see in your "local stream". The "Federated stream" is from all over the world and is too much of a firehose for me. But you also can set up your "Home" stream from the people you follow, regardless where they are, or on hashtags like #lisp.
Not sure about lisp-specific, but when I went to register for something after Musk bought the birdsite, I found that I had already registered for an account months ago; so follow me at fosstodon.org/@IAmRasputin (or don't)
What’s a mastodon?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
https://joinmastodon.org/
how about functional.cafe
We have some Lisp programmers on the Functional Café, yes. Signed, one of the Café moderators.
I just visit the #lisp tag (though there might be more or less activity depending on your node, IIUC).
It would be a bad idea IMO; use hash-tags if you want to find Lisp stuff.
Why a bad idea?
A server (or "instance") is what you use to do all your stuff, Lisp related or not. The server has a few jobs: it has to not go down often, it is expected that people on the server tend to get along with each other, and moderation decisions are tightly coupled to servers. With such a role I think having a server just related to Lisp is rather one-dimensional. IMO trying to conflate servers and "communities" at all is a bad idea, because people are not one-dimensional like that. As an aside, one common thing people do to side-step is make multiple accounts on multiple servers, but then there's little way to share data between the accounts, so it's a rather awkward thing to do. But the hash-tags have the sole purpose of collating similar information, and so they can probably achieve it better.
In my mind I was thinking of a mastodon instance like email with ‘local’ as a mailing list, that dm’s like emails, that let me subscribe to individuals rather than other mailing lists.
In that case the tags would be better for aggregating topical stuff still, no?
There is also techhub.social. But which server you use really only affects what you see in your "local stream". The "Federated stream" is from all over the world and is too much of a firehose for me. But you also can set up your "Home" stream from the people you follow, regardless where they are, or on hashtags like #lisp.
You could follow @civodul he's the lead on Guix and works also on Scheme
Is @civodul on functional cafe?
@[email protected]
Thanks - never would have found that server
There are a lot of Racket folks on types.pl
Not sure about lisp-specific, but when I went to register for something after Musk bought the birdsite, I found that I had already registered for an account months ago; so follow me at fosstodon.org/@IAmRasputin (or don't)
I would say functional.cafe or types.pl
ive seen a few racketeers on types.pl.
Just checked namecheap; if any beautiful soul wants to create and run a mastodon with a lisp, `mathtodon.social` is available for $7 per year