[announcement] Telegram bridging to be retired Wed. 20 Sept. | 5 to-dos

[Niccolò Ve]

> 3rd party
> social network platforms need moderators/user support.

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.


On Wed, Aug 23, 2023, 2:05 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas <
ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> wrote:

> On 23.8.2023 14.24, Paul Brown wrote:
> > A lot fo good ideas we can use to reach a compromise, but this ...
> >
> >> KDE members are of course free to participate in discussions anywhere
> >> they want, but loading KDE resources (sysadmin team & machines) with all
> >> possible proprietary network doesn't seem a priority for me.
> >
> > ... 😬
> >
> > By that logic, would you have a problem if Promo stopped managing
> Facebook
> > (65,000+ followers), Xitter (120,000+ followers), LinkedIn (17,000+
> > followers), and Reddit (100,000+ followers)? These are all proprietary
> and all
> > load KDE's resources. But it is KDE's Promo resources.
> >
> > If Promo didn't manage these platforms, KDE would gradually lose this
> > audience, and I can prove that with graphs.
>
> It's not the same logic. Chat platforms with bridging infrastructure
> need moderators/user support + sysadmin time + hardware. 3rd party
> social network platforms need moderators/user support. If Facebook et
> al. would be bridged to the KDE chat infra (dark magic like this might
> awaken the Great Old Ones and should not be attempted), it would be the
> same logic.
>
> Ilmari
>
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