Hi,
I share Tobias' and Jean-Marc's dislike of centralized and
proprietary social networks and I don't think we should offer free
advertising for them (even if that is commonplace nowadays).
Like Tobias said, many other things are "commonplace" (like contributing
to Google Map Maker and therefore allowing your work to be assimilated
by a non-open system) and we argue against them, so it is only fitting
if we spend more thought on this than the average web site operator.
Pawel has a point though when he says
Simple question then: you go to osm.org and want to find out what's new
in the project. How do you do that? Where do you find project
announcements like the recent 1 million users news?
I think it is ok for us to post stuff to Twitter, and I think we should
make room for such news on our web page (many web sites have a widget
that shows the most recent twitter mentions).
I would dislike a "follow us on Twitter" button because it will only
show the Twitter signup page if someone doesn't have an account, and
therefore make it look like you had to subscribe to Twitter in order to
read our news - which is thankfully not true.
Having said all that, I don't have the time or passion to fight this
point in CWG, and I trust CWG enough to believe they're not a troupe of
Facebook fanboys. They know that endorsing proprietary "silo" sites
doesn't harmonize with our other messages, and if they choose to add
such endorsement to our web site nonetheless, it will be because they
have reason to believe that the net effect is still positive.
Anyone who wants to do something about that would have to join CWG and
do his share of the job.
Bye
Frederik
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