I’m glad that we are on IRC and Matrix, but can we also establish a presence on Mastodon and some open-source alternative to Reddit? Perhaps Lemmy or Ruqqus?

Hey @bmreading ! I wanted to connect the dots here. @jorp is currently heading up social and is the right person to weigh in on the creation of new social channels.

I definitely like this idea, and I could see us eventually supporting something like this after building more of a community.

@jorp So as someone that has just started in Linux Universe, this actually bothers me a lot. Why do we radically split our conversations? Where is the conversation of building Rocky Linux actually happening? In this forum? Slack? IRC? Matrix? I understand the concept of reaching people in differen…

@Geodude I’m not @jorp , but - I wanted to say I understand the frustration and I think it’s awesome that you’re passionate to the point of getting involved. So to immediately answer your question - most of the action is happening in Slack right now. There are a ton of Rocky-* channels and it’s a “…

I am running a diaspora instance. It is aimed to be an alternative for FB. As other federated services it has multiple servers and no tracking crap. Diaspora is a lot smaller, but I think the audience is quite intersting because many opensource enthusiasts have accounts there. So a possibly large p…

[image] Geodude: Where is the conversation of building Rocky Linux actually happening? In this forum? Slack? IRC? Matrix? @Geodude , right now most of the conversation is taking place on Slack as mentioned above by @jeffrey-a . For synchronous conversation, we’re planning to move away from Slac…

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