The main negatives that I can think of is an additional account for the PMC to maintain so if we as a community don’t have many people on Mastodon yet it might not be worth it. Would need probably about ~20 minutes of setup work to make the sync (probably most of it is finding someone with the Twitter credentials to enable to sync). The other tricky one is picking a server (there is no default ASF server that I know of).
On Thu, Dec 1, 2022 at 8:03 AM Russell Spitzer <russell.spit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since this is just syndication I don't think arguments on the benefits of > Twitter vs Mastodon are that important, it's really just what are the costs > of additionally posting to Mastodon. I'm assuming those costs are basically > 0 since this can be done by a bot? So I don't think there is any strong > reason not to do so. > > > On Nov 30, 2022, at 5:51 PM, Dmitry <frostb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My personal opinion, one of the most features of Twiiter that it is not > federated and is good platform for annonces and so on. So it means "it > would be good to reach our users where they are" means stay in twitter(most > companies who use Spark/Databricks are in Twitter) > For Federated features, I think Slack would be a better platform, a lot > of Apache Big data projects have slack for federated features > > чт, 1 дек. 2022 г., 02:33 Holden Karau <hol...@pigscanfly.ca>: > >> I agree that there is probably a majority still on twitter, but it would >> be a syndication (e.g. we'd keep both). >> >> As to the # of devs it's hard to say since: >> 1) It's a federated service >> 2) Figuring out if an account is a dev or not is hard >> >> But, for example, >> >> There seems to be roughly an aggregate 6 million users ( >> https://observablehq.com/@simonw/mastodon-users-and-statuses-over-time >> ), which seems to be about only ~1% of Twitters size. >> >> Nova's (large K8s focused I believe) has ~29k, tech.lgbt has ~6k, The BSD >> mastodon has ~1k ( https://bsd.network/about ) >> >> It's hard to say, but I've noticed a larger number of my tech affiliated >> friends moving to Mastodon (personally I now do both). >> >> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 3:17 PM Dmitry <frostb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> Does any long-term statistics about number of developers who moved to >>> mastodon and activity use exists? >>> >>> I believe the most devs are still using Twitter. >>> >>> >>> чт, 1 дек. 2022 г., 01:35 Holden Karau <hol...@pigscanfly.ca>: >>> >>>> Do we want to start syndicating Apache Spark Twitter to a Mastodon >>>> instance. It seems like a lot of software dev folks are moving over there >>>> and it would be good to reach our users where they are. >>>> >>>> Any objections / concerns? Any thoughts on which server we should pick >>>> if we do this? >>>> -- >>>> Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau >>>> Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): >>>> https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> >>>> YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau >>>> >>> >> >> -- >> Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau >> Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): >> https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> >> YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau >> > > -- Twitter: https://twitter.com/holdenkarau Books (Learning Spark, High Performance Spark, etc.): https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9 <https://amzn.to/2MaRAG9> YouTube Live Streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/holdenkarau
