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Jens Hannemann

Hi folks, I really enjoy Mastodon. It does remind me of the olden days of and the era (in a good way).

I teach computer engineering technology at the University of Kentucky. I'm originally from .

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@JensHannemann I've been thinking about buying a domain for a Kentucky-centric Mastadon server, but I am not sure there will be sufficient demand yet.

I am also in Lexington

@BlueArcher Yeah, I'm not sure about demand. A way to maybe get the word out more would maybe be to talk to the WUKY folks to give the instance a joint science/journalism focus. Maybe even QX.net can host it, just like they now do host WUKY streaming.

@JensHannemann Welcome!

This is also the first time I've seen Kentucky and Ostfriesland mentioned in the same breath lol

@arctangent Well, that’s where my wife is from. Granted, we’re the only ones I know with that connection, but there’s plenty of Germans in

@TheRealStu Yeah, I remember the first netsplits. We used IRC quite extensively for running our student branch.

@JensHannemann
Hardly used IRC, but did bbses. Good times. Even set one up myself, but never really used it since only had one line and it was my mom's. 😛

@murdoc Yeah, I was a Fidonet point and also active on the German Z-Netz. Good and simpler times. Local calls in Germany were not free at the time, so it was kinda expensive. I still remember the rate. 23 Pfennig/minute (about 10 US cents at the time).