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. _______________________________________________ Fedora Marketing mailing list -- marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to marketing-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
