Re: [social-media] What about Mastodon?

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On Jan 13, 2020 3:52 PM, "Justin W. Flory" <jflory7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Alessio, 
>
> On 1/12/20 6:15 PM, Alessio wrote: 
> > Hello. 
> > 
> > I submitted this idea to the marketing team some time ago [1] 
> > 
> > What do you think to have a Fedora presence on the Fediverse? 
> > I'm not an expert, but it is now a mature technology, and no more an 
> > hype. Many people started using Mastodon, in many cases with the intent 
> > to leave the mainstream social medias. 
> > I have not statistical data, but, looking around, a lot of these people 
> > are concerned about privacy, freedom and digital rights, they are free 
> > software supporters, and they are critical versus the overwhelm power 
> > of the big giants of the internet. 
> > 
> > There were some toughts about running a Fedora instance [2], but maybe 
> > it is not useful, it whould be an high energy expenditure; however this 
> > is not the point of this mail. 
> >  
> > What I'm talking about is a profile on the fediverse. 
> > We are on twitter, we are on facebook, youtube, instagram. Why not on a 
> > social network that is powered by an open source software, and where 
> > there are many free software supporters? 
> > 
> > Gnome is there https://floss.social/@gnome 
> > Fosdem is there https://fosstodon.org/@fosdem 
> > Opensuse is there https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse 
> > Gentoo https://fosstodon.org/@gentoo 
> > Ubuntu (that runs his own instance) https://ubuntu.social/@ubuntu 
> > KDE https://mastodon.technology/@kde 
> > And many other FOSS projects and communities. 
> > 
> > What do you think? 
> > 
> > [1] https://pagure.io/fedora-marketing/issue/286 
> > [2] https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-in-fediverse/1168 
> > 
> I think this is a tough issue for the volunteer community to take a lead 
> on, even if the interest is there. 
>
> To add historical context, we did discuss Mastodon at some point in the 
> last couple years—I forget exactly when. There was no opposition to a 
> Mastodon as a concept, but it was more an issue of who manages it. 
> Most/all of Fedora's social media accounts are managed by Red Hat 
> employees in RH's Open Source Program Office, with some volunteers on a 
> few accounts. 
>
> When it was last proposed, the discussion faded out because the folks 
> managing Fedora's social media account were concerned there were already 
> many platforms to cover and things would get dropped. For example, we 
> used to have profiles on GNU Social and Diaspora, but I'm not sure if 
> they were actively maintained. 
>
> Account permissions and privileges is an issue still faced by Fedora's 
> other social media accounts too. See these Mindshare tickets for more 
> context: 

Thank you for the exhaustive answer.
Then, proposing a community driven account is out of discussion.
Luckily Mastodon users can follow https://framapiaf.org/@fedora_fr in order to get news :D

Ciao,
A.
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