<div dir="auto"><div>> 3rd party<br>> social network platforms need moderators/user support.<br><br>And Promo time. A LOT of promo time. Maintaing 3rd party social network platforms is much, much, much more time expensive compared to maintaining the bridge.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 2:05 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas <<a href="mailto:ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org">ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 23.8.2023 14.24, Paul Brown wrote:<br>
> A lot fo good ideas we can use to reach a compromise, but this ...<br>
> <br>
>> KDE members are of course free to participate in discussions anywhere<br>
>> they want, but loading KDE resources (sysadmin team & machines) with all<br>
>> possible proprietary network doesn't seem a priority for me.<br>
> <br>
> ... 😬<br>
> <br>
> By that logic, would you have a problem if Promo stopped managing Facebook<br>
> (65,000+ followers), Xitter (120,000+ followers), LinkedIn (17,000+<br>
> followers), and Reddit (100,000+ followers)? These are all proprietary and all<br>
> load KDE's resources. But it is KDE's Promo resources.<br>
> <br>
> If Promo didn't manage these platforms, KDE would gradually lose this<br>
> audience, and I can prove that with graphs.<br>
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It's not the same logic. Chat platforms with bridging infrastructure <br>
need moderators/user support + sysadmin time + hardware. 3rd party <br>
social network platforms need moderators/user support. If Facebook et <br>
al. would be bridged to the KDE chat infra (dark magic like this might <br>
awaken the Great Old Ones and should not be attempted), it would be the <br>
same logic.<br>
<br>
Ilmari<br>
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