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Which accounts should we have? #1
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My preference is to use a single account for everything we post, however, if there are concerns/objections to posting about activities in the project(team and wg meeting recordings/minutes, upcoming meetings, etc.) in that single account then I think we'd want a second one were we could include those kinds of post. |
I am currently a bit torned between "having a noisier .dev account + less noisy .org account" v.s. "having one account to ensure reach and reduce confusion". I wonder if this is something we can also post to Bluesky to discuss, and see what the future subscribers prefer, I like the idea of having this kind of "what kind of Bluesky community are we going to build here" meta discussion on Bluesky. |
Posted to Bluesky to see what folks think https://bsky.app/profile/joyeecheung.bsky.social/post/3lbafoclltk2r |
I believe we should use different subdomains for the different purposes. That way, users know that *.nodejs.org is from official Node.js accounts, but we can still allocate different parts to different accounts |
Single account: ❤️ |
I'm only using .dev for my personal account because I'm a developer, so it wouldn't make sense to say I'm an organization. For big OSS projects, use .org such as https://nextjs.org and https://nodejs.org etc. But more importantly, don't use both .org and .dev because that will defeat the purpose of verification. How can we know the .dev is owned by the same organization since anyone can create nodejs.foo and redirect it to nodejs.org, right? I think @RedYetiDev & @JakobJingleheimer have the best solution if we really want to have multiple social accounts - use subdomains. |
i think engaging more often and with a bit less bureaucracy/process is more important than whether there are one or two accounts. there are plenty of official channels already for folks who want matter of fact news about the project. the whole point of social media, imo, is giving the audience more of an inside and informal look at what is going on behind the scenes and access to opinions and thoughts of regular contributors and core committers. just look at what bun has achieved in a very short space of time largely through their use of social media. some folks might not like that a whole lot, but it's very effective in broadening the audience and building "brand loyalty" (that term gives me the heebie jeebies personally but it's a real thing we need to take seriously). one way of doing this might be for core people to try to put more out there about the work they are doing, assuming they have the bandwidth to do so, and to use the official account to promote those posts? this is probably a job for someone who is a specialist at devrel/social media and they could ideally just be trusted to do it without oversight as long as they are held accountable if they do anything dumb. 🤔 as @joyeecheung said previously:
i think this is really important, especially when the project is essentially under attack from two well funded commercial entities who have a budget for and are very good at marketing. node.js absolutely is boring compared to bun and deno. but maybe that's just how it wants to be? 🤷 |
I don't have much to say. Except that I don't think you should have more than one account. When you look at the content you've posted on X, you realise that you only post for releases, and even then sometimes it's a repost from a contributor or events. |
The valid reasons I see to have more than one account is if you were going to split the communications in two ways, or if you were going to change the way to communicate things, but if the communication will be the same but split in two accounts it will cause confusion and in some point we will have post reposted from each account. Also, every account requires moderation and work. |
The proposal is if there are 2 accounts for them to be different, not redundant/clones 🙂 |
Summary of the discussions here and on Bluesky so far:
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+1 for this suggestion. |
From the TSC meeting:
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Not sure who but someone added it to the profile. I think this issue can now be closed as we seem to be happy with the "trying 1 account first, and spin off more if we have the energy/momentum going" proposal. Thanks for participating the discussion! |
Converting from nodejs/admin#932, some ideas were proposed to have multiple accounts.
We have registered nodejs.org (see nodejs/admin#932) whose credentials are in the Node.js and OpenJS 1Password. DNS verification has been completed.
Quoting @JakobJingleheimer from nodejs/admin#932 (comment)
Quoting @ovflowd from nodejs/admin#932 (comment)
Quoting @mhdawson from nodejs/admin#932 (comment)
Quoting myself from nodejs/admin#932 (comment)
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