On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 05:49:10PM -0800, Mark Holmquist wrote:
I don't like leaving questions unanswered, so I'm going to answer Lei's, but let's make this very clear:
I am *****not***** asking this list to consider the below concerns.
I am *****NOT***** even suggesting that they should so consider them.
I *****AM***** pretty sure that it's impossible to do at the current moment without the risk of alienating a large audience. Therefore, **************DO NOT************ consider implementing the alternatives below, at least until the world is less reliant on nonfree software and they can be implemented without losing any audience at all.
With that out of the way.....
Don't get frustrated. I'm just trying to understand your position here. Thanks for explaining in more detail.
So what alternatives do you have? Would it make you more happy if we don't use Twitter, Facebook, and G+ as communication channels? What do we do instead? Have you seen http://twitter.com/gnulinux ?
GNU Social, the Diaspora Project, and many other more specific-use sites endeavor to change the landscape. Identi.ca, too, is a very active, viable alternative. See http://www.fsf.org/share for the FSF's view on Twitter and others (likely that the channel to which you linked was set up by one of the FSF members who already had an account, or who didn't mind taking the risk).
I don't know if SCALE use any of these communication channels, but I don't see why not. SCALE already has an Identi.ca account.