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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Feb 2, 2021, 23:56 by kathleen.lu@mapbox.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><blockquote><div>On the other hand fedeverse people are going to have heavy representation of extreme<br></div><div>open source/privacy people, who are going to be far more likely to be interested in<br></div><div>OSM and far more likely to become involved in OSM<br></div><div><br></div><div>So reaching out to this group of people is likely going to be more useful.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Mateusz, what's your basis for making these statements? There seem to<br></div><div>be a lot of assumptions here: 1) That there are more extreme open<br></div><div>source/privacy people on fediverse than on Twitter,<br></div></blockquote><div>This seems safe assumption? Fediverse is going to have people <br></div><div>not using Twitter/FB similar for some reason and right now it<br></div><div>is mostly<br></div><div><br></div><div><div>- because they were unwilling to use such services for<br></div><div>privacy reasons<br></div><div>- because they were unwilling to use such services due<br></div><div>to extreme open source position<br></div><div><div>- because they were banned from Twitter/etc<br></div><div>- people into self-hosting/tweaking unavailable for say Twitter<br></div><div>- in need of unique features provided by Mastodon<br></div><div>(some better moderation tools were mentioned)<br></div><div>- following some community<br></div><div><br></div><div>Because otherwise there is no good reason to use Mastodon.<br></div><div><br></div><div>It also seems confirmed by what Rory mentioned <br></div><div>"Most masto servers are either Queers/LGBTQ* people or some FLOSS/Chaos people"<br></div><div><a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2021-February/007721.html">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2021-February/007721.html</a><br></div></div></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> 2) that extreme<br></div><div>open source/privacy people are more likely to be interested in OSM,<br></div></blockquote><div>That seems fairly safe assumption?<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div> 3)<br></div><div>that extreme open source/privacy people are more likely to become<br></div><div>involved in OSM if OSM is on fediverse, and 4) that increasing the<br></div><div>involvement of extreme open source/privacy people who are on fediverse<br></div><div>but not on Twitter in OSM is more useful to OSM than reaching out to<br></div><div>people of similar interests on Twitter.<br></div></blockquote><div>This two are shakier. And what I posted is in "hmm, it would be nice<br></div><div>if someone would do something (TM)", not offering to actually do <br></div><div>necessary work.<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div><br></div><div>For the record, I'm an open source and privacy attorney, I'm not on<br></div><div>Mastadon, and I know very few people who have tried it, much less<br></div><div>stuck to it. On a related note, fediverse has less than 1% the number<br></div><div>of active users as Twitter, so in comparison, I *would* call that a<br></div><div>tiny thing.<br></div></blockquote><div>Definitely, it is tiny.<br></div> </body>
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