freedesktop.orgMay 3, 2023

Hello, world!

Following recent changes at Twitter, the new home of the X.Org Foundation is here on Mastodon. Please follow for the latest in the Linux graphics world and the freedesktop.org community. Going forward, we will no longer post to Twitter, but we're so excited to join the Fediverse!

Show threadMoved to @[email protected]
@XOrgFoundation That's great!! Welcome onboard! Consider self-hosting!! also remember Mastodon is not your only option, neither is it the best one IMO.

Self hosting provides some benefits ESPECIALLY for an organisation.
1. You're verified by your own domain
2. Easier to find multiple related accounts (you could also host @XOrgDevConf there)
3. You get to choose what software you want to use
4. You get to add your own emojis (and icons and etc)
And many more stuff, if you want a very good example of how this might work, you can have a look at how the European Commission have set up their Fedi instance:
https://social.network.europa.eu/
@EU_Commission
EU Voice

EU Voice is the official ActivityPub platform of the EU institutions. With EU Video, it is part of an alternative social media pilot proposed and provided by the European Data Protection Supervisor.

Mastodon hosted on social.network.europa.eu
May 4, 2023 at 12:10amWeb
Show threadMichael RothMay 4, 2023

@cody @[email protected] @XOrgFoundation @XOrgDevConf

That's the very problem of Mastodon
It's too complicated
The vast majority of those who those want to leave Twitter for it's inhumaneness, really only want to discuss, not to navigate through software questions etc
Simplicity is the only way one can compete with Twitter

Show threadMoved to @[email protected]May 4, 2023
@MichaelRoth For normal users, yes. For companies, not really. Setting up a mail server is much harder than a fedi instance. I understand you only want to communicate, and as a user you're able to do so by signing up to a public insance, the same way you probably signed up to gmail. But companies might need more, so they might want to set up a self-hosted instance, for the same reasons they might want to set up a custom mail-server.
Show threadPolychrome May 4, 2023
@MichaelRoth @cody @EU_Commission @XOrgFoundation @XOrgDevConf that would be so very true if the identity of the fediverse was about being an alternative in competition with Twitter. Mastodon might be (hi garg), but the rest of the network is just here to be itself.

If people don't like that and prefer to use something other than the fediverse, that's fine. Its okay to be different.