Good point.
My rationale was that fairphone.community already exists, also with subdomains for the map and angels list. IMHO that would look really consistent.
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I actually prefer short domains as well (and in fact, my first idea was yours, too), but I think fairphone.social would be often mistaken for an official company instance. Plus I’m not sure if the company would be ok with that.
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Then maybe fairphoners.social?
I find Ingo’s point about consistency of URLs with the existing ones (also expressed here) striking.
For the time being, fairphone.community (i.e. here) is the heart of the community, and social.fairphone.community just fits in with that very well.
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Okay. Do we know who at Fairphone controls that domain?
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Yes, easy to do.
Let me say thank you to you, Paula – not just for being agreeable here right now, but also for the general idea you brought up in this topic. You might have noticed Ingo and I weren’t 100% aligned on some points, and your suggestion proved basically “Solomonic” there. Thanks! 
Now perhaps continue over there? WeAreFairphone on Mastodon
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We already have this discourse forum, why a Lemmy forum too?
Discourse is even planning to federate too in the future.
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26 reply’s…I think that’s an answer right there.
Sorry had to edit…ghost was acting up
Why not just use Lemmy instead? There’s already a community there on the lemmy.ml instance.
You already asked that. Here is my answer:
Then why have a Fairphone instance on a Twitter-alternative like Mastodon?
Also, the reason I commented twice was because the first time was in response to another commenter and I wanted to make sure people saw my comment.
Why not? 
While Mastodon certainly has a more reasonable character limit than Twitter, it still has a character limit. Brevity is great, but only up to a point.
Our instance will have a 5000 character limit.
For me the answer simply is: because the WeAreFairphone account on Mastodon needs a new home.
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I think you are missing the point. Mastodon is used for completely different types of interactions than Discourse or Lemmy.
Why should there be more than this user forum at all?
I don’t want to register on a bunch of platforms to collect all information. A web site with contact options and this forum should be enough.
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Yeah, why do we have villages when I live perfectly fine in a large city? Why trains or bicycles, I own a car? 
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Sorry but I can’t see any relevance in your post.
Do I have to own a car, a bicycle, a train ticket and a scooter to have all information about a product I own or want to buy? It’s a pain in the ass already, reading about official statements of Fairphone on twitter cited by someone here, that I can’t find on the web site. Or reading that to get faster or better support to contact a random company by Facebook or WhatsApp.
There should be support and information on standard, open platforms, no need to apply for any other niche platform I have to install or sign up to.
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