diaspora* official Twitter account
Jason Robinson Fri 7 Nov 2014 10:59PMPublicSeen by 44The 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.
Rename diaspora* Twitter account to something else than @joindiaspora
proposal by Jason Robinson Closed Sat 22 Nov 2014 11:04PM
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 | Votes | % of votes cast | % of eligible voters | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agree | 14 | 70 | 29 |         | |
| Abstain | 5 | 25 | 10 |     | |
| Disagree | 1 | 5 | 2 |  | |
| Block | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 28 | 58 |                |
20 of 48 votes cast (41% participation)
Jonne Haß
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.
Perig Gouanvic
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"
Brent BartlettSat 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
RichSun 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.
FlaburganSun 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.
Sean Tilley
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.
Florian StaudacherThu 13 Nov 2014 9:07PM
I don't mind as long as we re-register the @joindiaspora account after renaming for the stated reasons
AsherThu 13 Nov 2014 9:34PM
I like the idea of having @joindiaspora for the pod and @diasporafoundation as the main account.
Dennis SchubertThu 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.