Hi all, Nice initiative Vinz, it gave me a good reason to start a Mastodon account :) Talking about social accounts, if I don't make any mistake, there is no openSUSE account on Diaspora*. Should we start one ? If you think it is relevant, I will be, of course, volunteer, to animate and feed it. One more thing, I have an administrator access to the Twitter openSUSE_FR account that I get when I became president of Alionet last year. For some unclear historical reasons, the guys before me seem to, more or less, handle this account. What should I do with it ? I would be happy to animate it as well but the content will be similar to the Alionet tweeter account feed that I manage, because, de facto, Alionet is the French openSUSE community and that is where I post every openSUSE news I translate. Regards, Le 2019-01-10 08:24, ddemaio a écrit :
Hi Vinzenz,
Thank you for starting this. In less that 8 hours it jumped to 217 followers. That's great. Could you add me as an administrator. It would be good to have one or two backup admins to eliminate any points of failure. When I took over most of the openSUSE social media sites, there were points of contact who had control of pages that could not be reached, so there are some pages that are un-managed due to no access. I added it to https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Social_media_contacts
v/r Doug
On 1/9/19 11:06 PM, Vinzenz Vietzke wrote:
Hi everyone,
I created an account for openSUSE at the federated social network Mastodon. You can find it at https://fosstodon.org/@opensuse
*What is Mastodon* Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers.
Mastodon has microblogging features similar to Twitter. Each user is a member of a specific Mastodon server, known as an "instance" of the software, but can connect and communicate with users on other instances as well. Users post short messages called "toots" for others to see, subject to the adjustable privacy settings of the user and their particular instance.
More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(software)
*Why is it good for openSUSE* Being open source, privacy oriented and rooting from people with a huge interest in everything FOSS big parts of the userbase is what I'd call an easy target group for openSUSE. Just being around at their day-to-day social network is important With just announcing the account it gained 178 followers and big amount of replies, reposts etc. in just a few hours. The interest and welcoming by the users there is overwhelming.
That aside I think it's good for openSUSE to stake a claim in terms of FOSS and privacy. The big social media services all have their own issues but privacy is somewhat a problem at all of them.
*Who is in charge and what is published* Currently I'm the only one with access to the account. But of course I'm willing to hand over the credentials to someone official. The contents I posted and plan to post until someone else wants to take over are just the same as on openSUSE's twitter account. In the long run one has to see what people over there are interested in and adapt the contents accordingly.
For any questions, go ahead.
Regards, vinz.
Sébastien 'sogal' Poher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-marketing+owner@opensuse.org