Having a moment of annoyance with Mastodon. I know WordCamp Atlanta is going on today, and yet I can find nobody posting about it. Searched on Nitter and there are lots of posts. Leaving Twitter/X has disconnected me from an important professional community.
For those who follow me from one of the more WordPress focused instances, are there good WordCamp posts in your local feeds ?
That's too bad. It would help if #WordPress (.com and/or .org) had a presence here. As far as I can tell they don't, and only X/FB accounts are being advertised on the project websites. This in spite of the fact that WordPress is newly advertising its fediverse support.
Contrast that with a project like @Blender which has maintained a presence here since 2018 and is even running its own #PeerTube instance for videos.
@eloquence@shawnhooper@Blender what kind of Fediverse presence would be most useful for WordPress.org? WordCamp announcements sounds like a good start?
I see no reason that an open source company or project should publish anything exclusively on Musk's hate platform, if it has to maintain a presence there at all.
@eloquence Absolutely agreed. My original post was more referring to the community who still use Twitter as their default platform for sharing what's going on at camps, not the posts from the foundation/organizations/project itself.
Yeah, I understood that (and sorry if my reply took away from your main point). My hope is that an official presence would be one thing that could persuade more folks in the WP community to be active here, but of course it works in the other direction as well.
@eloquence@shawnhooper@Blender I don’t think anything is published exclusively on Twitter, just pushed there (and FB) for historical reasons.
What Dotorg/WordCamp content would be most useful to be followable on Fediverse/Mastodon? I ask as one of the devs likely to be involved in rolling out that capability.
@shawnhooper very similar for me. Between leaving FB and Twitter, and even Reddit, I have no connections anymore and miss out on a LOT. Didn’t even realize WCATL was this weekend.
Glad you recently chose to follow me, we’re slowly rebuilding community here.
@zackkatz@shawnhooper Mastodon's ability for discovery and the fact there are still folks over at Twitter/X (I don't post but I monitor/read my lists) makes it difficult.
@davidbisset@zackkatz@shawnhooper it does suck at times. I experienced that at WordCamp US. But I couldn't be over there now with what's going on in the Middle East. So it's My choice to stay off that thing
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