Social presence 2023

[Anton Shestakov]

Hey all,

This is just a quick email to start a brainstorming thread about our 
public presence on the Internet.

We have some presence at the moment, e.g.

https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/SocialMedia
https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/ProjectInfrastructure

I'm not sure how active these accounts are, and I have no urge to even 
dip my toes into big corporate social networks for some reason.

But, watching all these news about current Twitter and Reddit "executive 
decisions" made me think about maybe getting an official account on 
federated social networks aka the Fediverse. For example, there's 
fosstodon.org for microblogging (e.g. announcing releases) and 
programming.dev for general discussions (e.g. user support and sharing 
blog posts, etc). Of course, if anyone has a better suited instance in 
mind (self-hosting??), feel free to suggest.

For an example microblogging style of content, here's Heptapod:

https://fosstodon.org/@heptapod

Finally, if we do get some official accounts on the Fediverse, I 
personally wouldn't mind posting something there occasionally and/or be 
a backup moderator just in case, but unfortunately I'm not in the 
position to be in charge of those accounts at this moment.