Hey Fediverse: Does anyone know of a local #Library that has successfully launched a #Mastodon instance of their own?

@benpate

For the german speaking area we have the instance @openbiblio.social
It is not one libary but a whole community of liberians

Maybe @rstockm knows more about libaries with instances on their own?

@benpate Dunno how local the smallest ones get, but take a look around https://openbiblio.social, it's the biggest fediverse cluster of libraries and librarians that I know of.

Edit: to the point of your question, the instance was started by a research library.

@julian

This is a fantastic lead. Thank you!

I'll try to see what I can learn from them. Hopefully they've talked about what worked, what didn't, and the challenges they faced along the way.

Certainly everyone will have different criteria, but I'm betting this kind of thing could be replicated in lots of places.

@samvie @rstockm

Thank you very much! This looks like a great success for libraries on the Fediverse.

As far as German languages go, I can count from one to ten in German, but after that I'm useless

Still, I'm going to look to see if they've published anything about their journey and their successes (and failures). Auto-translations can get me the rest of the way