[tde-users] Re: Do we want to participate in social networks?

On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 18:27:08 -0800 Mike Bird <mgb-trinity(a)yosemite.net> wrote: It's functionally impossible to count the number of users on Mastodon because there is no central control, and server operators are under no obligation to report their user counts (although many do). The numbers currently being thrown around are in the 1-3 million range, but that doesn't mean they're accurate. One thing to keep in mind is that the users on Mastodon tend to skew technical (or at least tech-friendly), whereas a lot of users on Twitter et al. wouldn't know Linux, much less TDE, from a hole in the ground. There was actually something of an exodus of technical users from Twitter to Mastodon after the recent shakeup at the former. So Twitter might have more users, but Mastodon users are more likely to be interested in TDE. I'm cautiously in favour of an official TDE Mastodon account, if Slávek or someone else involved in the project is willing to run it. The worst that can happen is that it gets no traction. And I don't blame Slávek for not wanting to engage with Twitter, which has problems right now that go beyond being closed source, closed-protocol, and centralized under control of a corporation. The question, as posed, was not "Mastodon or Twitter?", it was "Mastodon or status quo (nothing)?" I think we should assume that Twitter is off the table for the present. E. Liddell