On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 18:27:08 -0800 Mike Bird <mgb-trinity@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 It's functionally impossible to count the number of users on Mastodon because there is no central control, and server operators are under no obligation to report their user counts (although many do). The numbers currently being thrown around are in the 1-3 million range, but that doesn't mean they're accurate. One thing to keep in mind is that the users on Mastodon tend to skew technical (or at least tech-friendly), whereas a lot of users on Twitter et al. wouldn't know Linux, much less TDE, from a hole in the ground. There was actually something of an exodus of technical users from Twitter to Mastodon after the recent shakeup at the former. So Twitter might have more users, but Mastodon users are more likely to be interested in TDE. I'm cautiously in favour of an official TDE Mastodon account, if Slávek or someone else involved in the project is willing to run it. The worst that can happen is that it gets no traction. And I don't blame Slávek for not wanting to engage with Twitter, which has problems right now that go beyond being closed source, closed-protocol, and centralized under control of a corporation. The question, as posed, was not "Mastodon or Twitter?", it was "Mastodon or status quo (nothing)?" I think we should assume that Twitter is off the table for the present. E. Liddell ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
