Dne pá 9. prosince 2022 03:27:08 Mike Bird napsal(a):
On Thu December 8 2022 17:34:32 Slávek Banko wrote:
Does it seem like a good idea for us to have an official communication channel for our project on Mastodon? What is your opinion on this?
I'm on Twitter. It's far from perfect but TTBOMK much more popular than Mastodon. @kdecommunity has 114K followers on Twitter while @gnome has 187K.
What sort of numbers do they have on Mastodon? I'm not familiar enough with Mastodon to find those numbers quickly although I did stumble across this: https://social.anoxinon.de/@gnulinux/109471420784742781
--Mike
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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