Re: [lp-ca-on] Microblogs for Software Freedom Day

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 02/08/15 02:27 AM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Blaise wrote:
>> [...] it could be nice if every Twitter post ended with a canonical link 
>> back to 
>> the GNU Social post, POSSE style ( http://indiewebcamp.com/posse )
> 
> The sn.jonkman.ca StatusNet server (not yet GNUsocial) imposes no 140
> character limit. If you ensure that the StatusNet message exceeds 140
> characters then the Twitterbridge will truncate the message and append a
> link to the StatusNet message.
> 

Nice little hack!


>>> a !LibrePlanetON group? [...]
> 
>> My feeling is an account make sense in the future, though I'm not 
>> sure if there would be enough to post about right now? *shrugs*
> 
> A !LibrePlanetON group is cheap and easy, useable by any account that
> subscribes to it, and less effort to use than switching back&forth
> from my own account to a @LibrePlanetON account. I can host this on
> sn.jonkman.ca but it might look better on social.libreplanet.br
> 

+1 to a GNU Social group, that makes much more sense than an account or server.

No preference on my end where it's hosted... (status.blaise.ca is available too,
though probably less appropriate than other options since it's a single-user
instance).