Hi,
On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 08:57:57PM -0700, J.C. Cleaver wrote:
Along the lines of the previous update, I've reactivated a Facebook page that I'd set up for the project a long while back (which FB had hidden over time), as well as created handle accounts on various social media services:
https://facebook.com/XymonMonitor
New accounts have been created here, primarily for #hashtag and @account reference purposes at the moment:
https://twitter.com/XymonMonitor https://instagram.com/XymonMonitor https://reddit.com/u/XymonMonitor
Might be my bubble, but does anyone in IT still use these platforms, especially Twitter and Reddit?
In 2023, I'd kinda expected a Fediverse (e.g. Mastodon, Firefish, etc.) presence instead of a new account on the centralized and dying Twitter platform.
Good question is though which Fediverse instance might be a good one for Xymon. I would _not_ take the biggest generic ones (like mastodon.social or mstdn.social), but a medium sized one with a good reputation for reliability and a more or less fitting topic, floss.social or fosstodon.org maybe.
(There also exists a Mastodon instance named monitoring.cafe. It seems to be an instance for a monitoring community, but rather new and not yet open: https://monitoring.cafe/about ? I've asked how their plans are: https://chaos.social/@xtaran/111176160822935709)
Not sure about Reddit, but it has gotten quite a bad reputation after some disputes between the company behind it and the community. (Albeit it IMHO didn't get as bad as Twitter's reputation got after the Muskocalypse.)
Then again, I've _never_ used Facebook nor Instagram. (Not sure who's worse these days, Musk or Zuckerberg?) So it really might be just my bubble.
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