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

Dne pá 9. prosince 2022 03:27:08 Mike Bird napsal(a): Thanks to everyone who has already responded. Yes, sure, Twitter is bigger. But I don't like the fact that it's a commercial project where voluntarily joined users become "goods" and everything depends on the will of the owner. At the same time, I observe that there is an increased interest in Mastodon at this time. And that seems to me to be a better option to motivate people to join to Mastodon instead of Twitter. When I look at KDE and GNOME on Mastodon, yes, the current numbers are noticeably lower - @kde@floss.social has 12k followers (joined Oct 07, 2022! - see https://floss.social/@kde) and @gnome@floss.social has 9.1k followers (joined Jul 09, 2018 - see https://floss.social/@gnome). But here's also the fact that you don't need anything special to follow posts on Mastodon - you don't even need to create an account, because you can follow using regular RSS - see https://floss.social/@kde.rss - that's another thing I like. So, next to the counted followers, there may be other users following using rss. The opinion from Michael that we should enter "all" social networks seems quite unrealistic. This would require a lot of effort, and I believe it would be questionable whether it would have any real benefit. Also, I don't agree that we should join social networks that contradict our ideas just because those networks exist. The unmaintained "trinitydesktop" account mentioned by Dan that someone created a long time ago on Facebook is a prime example of the pointlessness of creating an account everywhere just to exist on some social network. As E. Liddell well stated, I am not motivated to join Twitter, which is closed source, closed protocol, centralized under the control of a corporation that needs to make money. I prefer using a decentralized open source platform because it is in line with our thoughts. Therefore, Mastodon seems like a good platform where there could be like-minded people that our project could reach. I will look forward to your other opinions. Cheers -- Slávek