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[Walter Lapchynski <wxl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was talking to Valorie about Mastodon not being listed at kubuntu.org
and she suggested it might be best for me to help out with Masto since I
am such an active Mastodon user. I'd be glad to help, for sure, but I
think one thing that would make it best for me to be responsive to
mentions and such is to actually have notifications. Of course, only one
email can be associated with the account, but we have more than one
person helping, so how do we solve this?

The idea I talked to Valorie about and would like to suggest is setting
up a mailing list. This is great because users can tune in or tune out
as much as they want depending on their needs. They do need to be
private, though. Unfortunately, that excludes Launchpad. It's likely
that having a list more for the purposes of redirecting mail than for
having a more functional purpose is going to be enough to justify a
lists on Ubuntu and/or KDE's resources.

That said, here's my idea: use lists.riseup.net. This is a resource
mainly for activists (to which Firefox recently contributed a bunch of
money) and that subsequently works really hard on using open source
software and ensuring privacy and security. This is why the likes of
Whisper Systems (read: Signal), OpenKeychain, the Library Freedom
Project, etc., all use it. 

They use Sympa for software. Sympa has message tags (kind of like
topics) that users can subscribe to. It should be automatic. That said,
we could have one email, say, kubuntu-social@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, with
topics for Mastodon, Twitter, etc. and people could subscribe only to
those segments of the list they want.

I thought ti would be a good idea to run this past the Council and see
what they think. So… thoughs?

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