Hi all,

I like open social media. But if that's our only outlet to promote SFD, we're preaching to the choir. If you want to reach people who aren't knee deep into open source software, you need to be where they are. Doesn't make sense preaching safe sex to an audience committed to celibacy.
Doesn't make sense preaching safe hex to an audience commited to digibacy.

Secondly, I'm much in favor of the principle of doing: if you think it's important, please do it. If nobody is willing to invest the time into building up the open social media buzz around SFD, If some people are willing to promote SFD on facebook, twitter or even linkedin... great!

Especially since everybody in the organization is volunteer... nobody is in a position to set expectations and standards to anybody except to him- or herself.

So Mostafa or Ali... if you think it's important, offer your help. I'm pretty convinced Fred will accept your help with both hands.

Greetings,
Jurgen


On 31/08/2020 16:00, Ali Reza Hayati wrote:
Hi y'all,
I hope you're well.

I don't think that's a personal matter. SFD is to attract people to the concept of software freedom and digital rights so we actually should be active about it.

I agree with Mostafa on this matter. Lot of social networks went down and up but it's not a reason to stop using them. Doesn't matter whether something is stable or not, if it's proprietary, we shouldn't use it. At least for the sake of publicity of our belief.

On August 31, 2020 1:36:12 PM UTC, Frederic Muller - DFF <fred@digitalfreedomfoundation.org> wrote:
Hi!

Thank you for asking. I am not a fan of Social Media. Pockey usually
handles our Social Media accounts (though I think I'm supposed to do
Twitter...). I really have little interest in Twitter so... that answers
question No.1

Now young man (I have no idea really...), over the year we've seen free
sotfware social media platforms going up and down. After a while I think
we just got tired of switching to whatever was the latest and greatest.

Now this is probably a deeper discussion but maybe it is time for us on
the board to transition over to a new team of people. We've been
thinking about it for the past year+ and it will probably be something
on the agenda after SFD 2020.

Thank you.

Fred

On 8/31/20 7:25 PM, Mostafa Ahangarha wrote:
Hi

I wanted to know more about the policies of FSD official website
regarding social media. There are two questions:

  * Why SFD social media account on twitter is not active? It is not
    leading actor in propagation of SFD.
  * Why SFD has no official account on Fediverse and in particular on
    Mastodon? Not asking to leave twitter but like FSF, the main account
    should be on some FLOSS platform.

Regards,
Mostafa Ahangarha



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