TL;DR
Recent events in the fediverse in general and related to fosstodon.org instance in particular have made me rethink the place where I’d like to handle the @debian account in the Mastodon/GNU Social/ActivityPub fediverse.
I couldn’t decide a “final” place yet, but I’m exploring options (including selfhosting).
For now, I’ve moved the account to @debian@framapiaf.org – Please follow @debian there. Thank you Framasoft for administering and providing the service.
(Some) context
I think that this article is a good summary of what happened plus some thoughts thrown on the table that I’ve been thinking about, even when the final decisions/reactions of the writer and mine are different. There is more info out there and several different personal opinions, so I guess people interested in learn more about the context can find by themselves.
Roadmap
- Starting 2019-07-28 I’ll post the micronews.debian.org RSS feed in @debian@framapiaf.org
- I will continue posting the micronews.debian.org RSS feed to @debian@fosstodon.org too, to give time for this news to spread and people to move.
- I will fix a toot to this blog post in both accounts, because @debian@framapiaf.org may be temporary (or not. we’ll see).
- On 1 September I will stop sending the micronews feed to @debian@fosstodon.org and I will only post a toot to this blog post from time to time.
- On 1 October I will stop posting anything from @debian@fosstodon.org and close the account or make it dormant or whatever.
- I don’t think I will take a new decision of a final or future move before October. I will try to put time on exploring options from September until the end of the year. Depending on my availability and the available help from Debian friends, the final home of the @debian account in the fediverse will be settled soon or later… you know, “when it’s ready”.
Thanks for understanding, and for your help
All this caught me in a “bad moment” (very busy with Debian and non-Debian stuff + personally, lower energy than usually). I apologise for not giving much details and also for not reacting quicker.
I appreciate if you can spread this news so people follow the new account easily.
I would like to thank the friends that gave me some heads up about what was happening, and helped me to understand in a time where I could have not much time to read everything, and also were patient to wait for me to take a decision.
Reminder: the account, wherever it’s hosted, is a mirror of micronews.debian.org
Finally, I would like to remind everybody that the @debian account in the fediverse, wherever is hosted, is not official. It just posts the RSS feed provided by https://micronews.debian.org, which is one the official source of news about Debian. Micronews includes short news produced or selected by the Debian Publicity team and also broadcasts links to the longer official announcements posted in the other official channels: the Debian blog, the Debian website or the Debian announce and news mailing lists.
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