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Fri 7 Nov 2014 10:59PM

diaspora* official Twitter account

JR Jason Robinson Public Seen by 44

The official project Twitter account is @joindiaspora (https://twitter.com/joindiaspora).

It is maintained by a few community members.

Discussion relating to this outreach account here.

JR

Poll Created Fri 7 Nov 2014 11:03PM

Rename diaspora* Twitter account to something else than @joindiaspora Closed Sat 22 Nov 2014 11:04PM

Outcome
by Jason Robinson Tue 25 Apr 2017 5:21AM

We will rename the account once/if a suitable name is accepted in further proposals.

As I think the main maintainer of the Twitter diaspora* account, I constantly see people confuse it with the pod joindiaspora.com.

Since this account is an official account for the project, and has no direct relation to the pod joindiaspora.com, except via history, I'm proposing renaming the account username to something else.

Changing the username will mean some people might have trouble mentioning diaspora* on Twitter. Otherwise it will have little effect.

Vote:

  • YES - change it to something else (follow up proposal to choose what it should be)
  • NO - keep as is

Results

Results Option % of points Voters
Agree 70.0% 14 JR F PP RS- S V DB A B CCH DU Y S RB-
Abstain 25.0% 5 FS JH BB DS DU
Disagree 5.0% 1 ST
Block 0.0% 0  
Undecided 0% 28 RF E S AS R JD PP J NV BC M MB PG IGM R W RD S MKT MP

20 of 48 people have participated (41%)

JH

Jonne Haß
Abstain
Sat 8 Nov 2014 11:25AM

I don't think the new possible names are much of an improvement, they're longer and harder to remember. But I don't really care either.

DU

Perig Gouanvic
Agree
Sat 8 Nov 2014 7:25PM

cf Robin Stent's response : "From a mentioning point of view it will make much more sense for people if the name at least begins with @Diasp rather than @Join as twitter has autocomplete"

BB

Brent Bartlett
Abstain
Sat 8 Nov 2014 7:43PM

I think that a new account should be created for the Diaspora Project or Foundation, and @joindiaspora should only be used for the JD pod

DU

Rich
Abstain
Sun 9 Nov 2014 8:27PM

If anything, we should hand over / donate the @joindiaspora account to the podmin of jd.com (as that's what people are coming to that Twitter account for) and create a brand new Twitter account specifically relating to the project itself.

F

Flaburgan
Agree
Sun 9 Nov 2014 9:08PM

Let's change to @diasporafoundation to avoid confusion. We can maybe tweet first to warn users that we are going to do it.

ST

Sean Tilley
Disagree
Tue 11 Nov 2014 9:34PM

I actually think @JoinDiaspora is fine the way it is. Yeah, it can be confused for JoinDiaspora.com, but overall it describes the action of joining the platform, which itself isn't a bad thing.

FS

Florian Staudacher
Abstain
Thu 13 Nov 2014 9:07PM

I don't mind as long as we re-register the @joindiaspora account after renaming for the stated reasons

A

Asher
Agree
Thu 13 Nov 2014 9:34PM

I like the idea of having @joindiaspora for the pod and @diasporafoundation as the main account.

DS

Dennis Schubert
Abstain
Thu 13 Nov 2014 11:40PM

I agree to change the name if we can find a better name to change it to and if we don't lose the verified badge.

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