Have any more local Fairphone communities joined Mastodon by now?
I am about to finally do so for aachen.fairphone.community and am undecided which instance to join. I understand I can still change the instance later, but it would not be the most helpful thing to keep doing so (especially for those who want to find us through other places â would have to keep changing the information there).
I would just be interested to see if there is already some sort of cluster of Fairphone Angels or communities on Mastodon. It wouldnât hurt to link up there as well (you can see I havenât really got a clue yet ).
If you donât mind, feel free to post your local community account here.
most of the time it doesnât matter which instance you join, as theyâre all interoperable (unless an admin of an instance specifically blacklists another one from federating with it).
I wonder if itâs time to delete the Twitter account of WeAreFairphoneâŚ
It still has about twice as many followers compared to the Mastodon account. But interaction is almost non-existent, the number of impressions per month is around 600 (single popular posts in the past had reached more than 10k for comparison) and it recently loses 50-100 followers per month (I guess as people leave Twitter, not because of the account, but thatâs just a guess).
Fairphone Community Aachen recently decided to donate a few Euros to our Mastodon instance nrw.social (we have some modest local community funds mainly resulting from hardware donations from a local community member). Iâm regarding this as our annual contribution for 2022, so I calculated it on a fixed monthly ârateâ.
Fairphone Community Aachenâs (8 months old) Mastodon account now has more followers than our Twitter (57 months) and Instagram (12 months) accounts, but I will keep all three accounts for the time being â last but not least because it is quite apparent that each reaches a different audience, and as I think we cannot afford to no longer be able to profit from the official Fairphone accountâs scope on the commercial networks (by way of being retweeted by Fairphone).
End of this month the crossposter bot for the company account will close down.
So I no longer need to tell people they wonât get any response when they comment a toot
My impression is that itâs time to move the community account to another instance as social.weho.st seems to be somewhat unmaintained and lately the number of posts that never show up in the timeline of the community account - even when directly searching for them with their full URL - has increased significantly. And as the old company account has been defunct for months, thereâs no reason to stay at the same instance, either (the reason why I picked it initially).
Does anyone have a good suggestion for a mastodon instance to move to? Ideally it should be about some of the core topics of Fairphone (sustainability, fairtrade, working conditions), get updated reasonably (weho.st is still on a version that doesnât allow editing posts) and have good moderation so it isnât blocked or silenced by other instances.
If you are willing to pay a subscription fee (which is partially used to plant trees), then mastodon.green (or eu.mastodon.green) seems like the best option.
Waag also has ties to Fairphone, as you can see below. Their instance is semi closed, you have to ask for an invite. And the main language seems to be Dutch now. But I donât think they mind English content at all. They have an international team and their events are often in English as well.
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) - Iâd just like to be able to follow updates from Fairphone on there (akin to how I would follow