[boost] Boost and Social Media

On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 9:29 AM Joaquin M López Muñoz via Boost wrote:

El 16/03/2024 a las 12:15, Peter Dimov via Boost escribió:

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On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 12:49 AM Vinnie Falco wrote:

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Boost_Libraries, an account controlled entirely by one person: you.

Also false. I have to admit that I always found the @Boost_Libraries Twitter account somewhat of a mystery. Tweets would occasionally emanate from it, but I could discern no underlying logic as to when

David Sankel wrote: they would appear and what they would announce; and if I remember correctly, I once tried to figure out who actually operated it by asking around, but without success.

FWIW, this is the protocol I wrote in the proposed new website for tweet requests (TL;DR they go through David Sankel for him to publish):

https://www.boost.io/doc/contributor-guide/tweeting.html

I started contributing to Boost back in 2003 and I think I have a decent grasp of the project and the community. I believe there are huge PR possibilities and so began being more active on X and Reddit (most of the recent publications in both services came actually from me). In all modesty I think the response has been generally good. If the community gives me this honor I’d be happy to have write access to the X account so that I can be even more active there.

First.. Joaquín has done a good job in the Reddit posts. In particular maintaining a productive and useful conversation in Reddit, which is rather difficult. So I definitely approve of him extending this to the X posts. Second.. X and Reddit are not the only popular social networks to interact with these days. And I think it's important to bring back some life to Boost to find our audience where we haven't before. Hence I would like to see posts in as many networks as seems useful. To that effect I've created some unofficial Boost accounts in a few networks: LinkedIn, mastodon.social, hachyderm.io, bsky.app, and cohost.org. I can give Joaquín access to those if so desired by the community. -- -- René Ferdinand Rivera Morell -- Don't Assume Anything -- No Supone Nada -- Robot Dreams - http://robot-dreams.net