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

9 Dec 2022

On Friday 09 December 2022 07.45:36 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
...
  If "somebody" has the resources to mantain
it, yes. At least it'd be a good
 try :) 
...
 I have no reason to oppose, but I won't be there. I
tried Mastodon and could 
not understand how that works - and I don't use my phone for messenging as 
far as I can.

Thierry 

I have never used Twitter. However, I do sometimes cheat and use nitter.org, 
just to read what somebody posted, if it actually gets my attention. 

Twitter never seemed worth the time, effort, or emotional investment, to 
participate. I doubt Mastodon can be much better. Life is short. 

And yet there are people who do use it, so it must be worthwhile to somebody 
out there. 

My question is, Why not just have our cake and eat it, too? 

If we establish "an official communication channel for our project on 
Mastodon" (quoting Slavek), does that mean that we must choose between them - 
one or the other? Are they mutually exclusive?

We could have, say, an "unoffical communication channel" on Twitter; maybe not 
the devs themselves, but there are lots of TDE users out there, and they 
could take the message to the people on Twitter, the good news that there 
really is a Linux desktop that is actually worth using. 

Bill