I’m thinking about expanding our social media coverage to two more platforms now that we’ve gone GA. There are several caveats to what and how I can do this, including some potential showstoppers. For example, I ain’t giving my personal phone number to make an account, stuff like that.
Also, I’m only considering two right now because I want to try using Buffer for the account management. The Mastodon will still be the flagship account where I can focus my attention, but at least with Buffer we can get more juice out of each post we make by having it cross-post to the other platforms. I can only do a total of three channels before having to pay for it.
So what social media do you use? Select all that apply.
+1 for RSS. I think a lot of people don’t know that Mastodon and Discourse support RSS so an “official” RSS feed would be nice even if it’s just a link to one of the other platform’s RSS.
Also, I’m only considering two right now because I want to try using Buffer for the account management.
I have experience with this and can recommend it. If you run into any issues with using this, let me know via DM on Discourse or on Discord.
Also, Mastodon’s RSS feed can be downloaded with by entering: fosstodon.org/@UniversalBlue.rss as the feed URL for anyone who wants the RSS feed now at this time.
Whilst it might not fit the broadcast social media category, please also consider creating a Lemmy community. Lemmy is essentially like Reddit but on the Fediverse (using ActivityPub, just like Mastodon).
My understanding is that we want to avoid splitting the long form discussion away from our forum. That’s why we don’t already have a subreddit. But I get where you’re coming from.
I’m monitoring c/linux on lemmy regularly and I know Kyle posts there too. Very high signal/noise ratio, it’s becoming one of my favorites.
For the RSS stuff, I think if we were grab the github releases RSS, and then everything here with an announcement tag, could we just present one combo feed and just have one combo rss feed with all the goodies?
I think that works well for the RSS use case! We can promote it every so often on social media, but it would probably be best to display that somewhere on websites. I guess it would have to be one Universal Blue RSS and not something individual per custom image? Unless it’s easy to set these things up the extra effort may not be worth (or desirable).