[Osmf-talk] Possible Fedi/Masto usage | Re: The use of Free and Open Source Software in the OpenStreetMap Foundation - FOSS...

[Mateusz Konieczny]

On the other hand fedeverse people are going to have heavy representation of extreme
open source/privacy people, who are going to be far more likely to be interested in
OSM and far more likely to become involved in OSM

So reaching out to this group of people is likely going to be more useful.

And, in general supporting open communication channels is a good idea.

Feb 2, 2021, 22:44 by mikel.maron at gmail.com:

> > Does that answer your questions?
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> kinda :) I'm still a little confused on use here.
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> First, I think the all the conceptual and philosophical ideas are laudatory. But for better or worse, @openstreetmap twitter has 74.5K followers, and I don't see them migrating soon to the fedeverse. So most of the interaction wremains on Twitter. In other words my focus is trying to assess and balance the value of using Mastadon vs usability with as a means to posting where the followers are active.
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> So to cross post between Mastadon and Twitter...
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>> I currently use this https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/ (source: https://github.com/renatolond/mastodon-twitter-poster ). There is also https://moa.party/ .
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> .. we'd need to configure things on another somewhat random service to do so? In other words, to send a tweet now requires reliance and configuration on 3 services instead of 1?
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> > Do tweets posted by syndication from osm.town look identical as if posted directly in Twitter? Can you include photos? 
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> So if something originates on Mastadon, I know it won't look identical .. but will it look off somehow on Twitter?
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> > Alas, I pretty sure mastodon doesn't have this feature. You have to give everyone the password. 
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> I think that's a problem for managing access. Even with you as the admin, it's not a good way of organizing posting access. For posting to Twitter, we're currently using GroupTweet, and seems to work ok.
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> I guess my conclusion is that it makes sense to syndicate from Twitter to osm.town, and that's happening already as I understand. But setting up in the other direction has drawbacks at this time. Of course it's up to the whole CWG to assess this.
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> -Mikel
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