On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 03:51:12PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > There is a totally different approach to this: forget identi.ca by > > now, until everything is more mature, and create an official Debian > > account and group in another StatusNet public server, as I said in my > > first email. > > Interesting thought... the transition has indeed been annoying. > Lets turn this problem on its head a bit.... […] > How about we move the source of messages to the Debian website, have > the website generate RSS feeds containing them (webwml already has RSS > stuff) and then use the various RSS to whatever services for getting > that out to the StatusNet, pump.io, Diaspora, Twitter, Facebook etc > social/microblogging networks. By doing this we also enable more > Debian folks to post messages out to the social network cloud. I've been following this discussion only tangentially, but I think this is a brilliant idea. After all what we, as in Debian, care about is having a feed of "tweets" (in its broadest meaning of short messages) and deliver them via existing social networks, publicly endorsing only the free ones. Doing so in a central, stable, and social-network agnostic; and then generate from it the social-network-specific feeds seems definitely the right way to approach the problem. [ FWIW, I don't think that at this point setting up a status.net Debian server is the way to go. I agree that the migration to pump.io has been dealt with sub-optimally, but there seems to be more development thrust in pump.io than in status.net these days (or, if you don't agree with that, you'll probably agree that it is not yet clear which of the 2 projects is more likely to still be alive 10 years from now). Also, last time I checked, the status.net folks were looking into offering pump.io compatibility. For all these reasons, I think it is premature now to embrace, as our canonical "tweet" service status.net. OTOH if we do go down the path suggested by Paul, we can "easily" be present on both networks. ] Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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