XSF Communications Team - 2025-02-07

I think thats much better as a blogpost

Hi, someone with access to the fosstodon account boosted a message on.software comparision. was it a mistake by myself?

I did that (on purpose)

Lets rather stay away from Boosting etc. It puts more load overtime we cannot manage at the moment. Furthermore, Id rather prefer to make own posts on the services we have.

Isn't boosting rather less work than posting? While still providing value to followers (if the boosted content is useful of course)

emus: I disagree. It shows involvement, and creates no overhead.

Agreed, I don't see any problem with boosting relevant posts

Especially those by community members that would be of interest to people following @xmpp

But what we boost, what not? If start so people expect we do it. We don't have the resources for this either.

> Especially those by community members that would be of interest to people following @xmpp 👍 ↺

Up to the person(s) managing the account? Seems like a rare occurance anyways and better to allow it than have a blanket ban for no real reason.

(This is how we do it for the joinjabber account)

I'm not sure what resources would be required here? You mean if people start asking for boosts? Obviously if people start asking for it the correct solution is to ignore them, as that's not an appropriate thing to do generally

When people ask for it they get their own posts. like today

Well, if you have all the time we can expand our resources maintaining the accounts. Im not saying it should not be done, Im saying it comes with higher efforts over time. One also need read through hundreds of messages to check on every login.

I think.the Newsletter can be merged. just check for the publish date

You mean s/05/07/ I'm the header?

I can do that right now if you want me to

date: 2025-02-05 -> date: 2025-02-07 ?

yes

because then the feeds catch it correctly

and sorting

done

https://github.com/xsf/xmpp.org/pull/1476/commits/d4a1a28e0e8ce788534ff7a64e47177e10d18e62

also fixed 2 typos

> You mean s/05/07/ I'm the header? I really hate the bloody dictionary on my phone .. s/I'm/in/ ↺

gnemmi: Do you have a question still?

Can someone merge it?

Nope .. not really .. I did as much as I could .. I mean, some things could've eluded me, but all in all there's so much that I can do on my own after all.

I whish I could've work on the Summit blog post. But in all honesty, I wasn't even there. It was my first ever Summit and I was only able to attend it remotely. I wasn't even there .. so I really wouldn't know where to start if I wanted to turn the 27th Summit summary into a full blog post. And that was the only reason why I didn't pick up that gauntlet. 🥺 ✏

I still feel sorry about that 🙁

gnemmi: All fine, we will manage

Dont be sorry

> gnemmi: All fine, we will manage We surely will!