On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 7:13 AM Agustin Benito (toscalix) <aben...@kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan, > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 12:40 PM Jonathan Riddell <j...@jriddell.org> wrote: > > > > Planet KDE has a feed of Twitter posts from a manually curated list of > > KDE people on it. This is below the Reddit feed and Mastodon KDE > > account feed. It replaced the embedded #kde tag in Twitter when they > > removed the ability to embed that. > > > > Since it's been set up I've had nobody suggest themselves or others be > > added to the feed and I fear it'll just get more off topic and > > irrelevant. > > > > Does anyone have an opinion on whether it's useful and interesting? I > > can't decide. > > If it is about reading twitter entries related with KDE people, > Twitter clients (web or local) are a much better place than our > Planet. I think that a well structured set of links that redirect > Planet readers coming from different social media platforms to out > most popular contents would be a better approach than the current > feed. > > I am a avid Twitter user. > > What I miss though is a proper feed of KDE people I can read in a > Twitter client. I would create a Twitter list in the KDE Community > Twitter account and add a big and prominent link to the feed of that > list in several places, being the KDE planet web one of them. This way > instead of following KDE people by adding them to my followers one by > one, I would do it through the list. Those of us who use Twitter > aggregators would really appreciate it. > > Thanks for asking. I appreciate that from time to time you question > the status quo and come out with these questions. > > Best Regards > > Agustin > When I wanted to buff up the list of people I follow on twitter, I went to KDE Community's Twitter page, and looked at which accounts KDE follows, and who follows KDE. I did the same thing when I set up Mastodon again. I think this is much more useful than any list, which will always be out-of-date. That said, a list would be shorter. Valorie @valoriez, Valorie@mastodon.social