2018-03-01 4:01 GMT+02:00 Erik Moeller eloquence@gmail.com:
Personally, I'd love to see WMF or a chapter set up a public Mastodon instance; the project has matured significantly since its first release and is at least a viable free/open alternative to the Twitter-ish forms of social networking. FB still has event management functions that are difficult to substitute, however.
Even if there would be an open-source alternative with all the Facebook functionality, installing, maintaining and promoting it would be a huge waste of money. The Facebook pages are an *outreach* tool, which implies getting out of our walled garden, not extending the garden. Choosing Facebook is simply the smart thing to do ATM, since all alternatives are smaller in size and engagement.
The more interesting thing is what you do once you have the page and you have convinced your community to put it in a banner or sidebar. I have experimented with small tasks that could be done by newcomers, such as identifying images or correcting diacritics, with somewhat mixed results (the more I go towards text editing, the lower the impact). I am curious if other people have done similar experiments and would be willing to share their experience.
Strainu
Erik
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