On Friday 16 December 2022 07:37:38 Michael wrote: > On Friday 16 December 2022 04:18:23 am Slávek Banko wrote: > > Dne so 10. prosince 2022 17:39:12 Michael napsal(a): > > > Facebook, > > > YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, et al., are just tools. > > > > So the consensus seems to be that it will be good to maintain our > > presence where it makes sense and where it looks like we have sufficient > > resources to maintain content. So for now I would move forward with an > > account on Mastodon. If you manage to get access to the account that is > > on Facebook, that will be good. We will see how it goes. > > I'm not sure who 'you' is, but if someone does get access to the existing > Facebook account, or even creates a new one, do notify me. I’ll go see if > I can dig up a way to setup auto-crossposting from Mastodon to Facebook. > Same with any other social media the group wants to use. > > > For Mastodon, I intend to create an account on floss.social, as that > > seems to be an appropriate place for our focus. So far I haven't > > considered creating our own instance of Mastodon server. If it turns out > > that it makes sense to set up our own instance, we can deal with that > > afterwards. > > That sound like the best option. The [little] bit I’ve read says > transferring your Mastodon ‘account?’ from one instance to another is > doable, easy-ish, and doesn’t lose any data. > > Thanks Slávek for taking the time to expand TDE’s presence! > > Best, > Michael The devs should not have to take on the burden of setting up and maintaining multiple social network accounts. That is a waste of time and resources. Mastodon definitely seems the best fit for our collective purposes. Just let the devs post to our "official communication channel"; then let other people take up the work of auto-crossposting, or maintaining other social media accounts (the "unofficial communication channels"). Perhaps a standard disclaimer would be in order, for those unofficial channels, or some kind of links pointing back to the official account; but otherwise, I say let the developers do what they do best, which is to make TDE even better than it is now. Besides, there have been other places online - I am thinking of my own first steps in running Linux - where the official channels tend to be too technical for beginners, and the unofficial channels are a better place to start. This will keep things relatively simple, but adaptable. Bill ____________________________________________________ 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
