With Twitter burning to flames, it would be nice to have a presence in federated social media.
Currently, the only way to find nim-related posts is hashtag search.
Twitter's gotten a substantially better UI in the form of https://github.com/zedeus/nitter , which you can run locally or from a private server, and which is written in Nim. It's good! None of the fediverse frontends are nearly as good.
There's also a lot of drama that you could've had fun following for the last year, and which won't be nearly as entertaining if it's explained to you now, such as
If you wait a few years I'm sure there will be multiple 2 hour Youtube videos about it, and you can pick your poison from those.
Actually here, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv8fulUFxS4
That should give you a picture of how a very prominent post-Elon program got rolled out.
The last is relatively 'official' - it's the same tweets, and there are whole instances for bots that echo twitter. But the first two are relatively genuine and likely to lead to further discussion. Even if multiple people follow the same fediverse bot, when one person replies to the bot, the other followers won't see that reply because they're only following the bot and not each other.
The more pressing problem with "create your own" is that it wouldn't be official.
It's not a problem really. When I needed a Docker image with Nim, I just went ahead and created it. It's official enough to me and many other users :-)
cringiest shit i've ever heard from you
I'm trying my best to adapt to clown world.
i don't actively use twitter, under any regime so far, but do use the fediverse and host blurts.net which is a pleroma instance. I think an official nim fediverse account would be in nim's interest, especially over time, even if it's just to repeat tweets right now. I don't think it makes sense for the project to "silo" itself unnecessarily, and the fediverse should continue to grow.
Any nim users, or the project, should feel free to register at blurts.net, if they accept the moderation policy, as it's an open registration instance.
None of the fediverse frontends are nearly as good.
I have to disagree here. If you want something lightweight, Pinafore is excellent. Tusky is great on Android. Even the regular Mastodon frontend is miles better than Twitter, it doesn't track you or pester you to sign in (as is the main benefit of Nitter). But really you don't even need to use a dedicated frontend, you can just add .rss to the end of a user's profile (on Mastodon at least) and now you have a feed with hundreds of reader options to choose from, or use a script to get them emailed to you or whatever.
What's wrong with Twitter? I haven't been using it for years. Did it become even worse somehow?
Yes, I think the actual reasons to give up Twitter now haven't quite been explained in the thread yet.
So yes, if there was ever a time to look at other social media options, now is a good one.
Also I should stress, this Fediverse thing isn't just a silly trend. I've been happily using it since 2016. It's not without drama or issues but on the whole it is a lot healthier than corporate social media.
There are instances out there dedicated to FOSS projects, which would be suitable for an official Nim account I'm sure. Alternatively it's pretty easy to self-host (using lightweight servers such as Akkoma or GotoSocial), which is often recommended for organisations.
In the past few months, I've seen a ridiculous number of news articles claiming twitter is going to burn to the ground because Musk fired his engineering staff and cannot competently run a tech company, yet Twitter seems to still be running.
It's not like it wasn't a hellscape before, plus most of the things you described above went down previously just in a less public manner. Users were banned for political views / propping up (or not) certain narratives, it had all sorts of bugs, moderation was inconsistent, etc...
If we're trying to spend marketing time / effort on Nim, then I think producing more original content like dev blogs, etc.. would be a much better place to start than worrying about what social media platform Nim has accounts on. It's not like much gets posted on the Nim twitter anyway.
Sri Lankan law is right around the corner people!
Seriously though this doesn't seem like a big deal, Nim twitter/social media seems like it would just be announcements or whatever and wouldn't be interactive, so you can easily automate this or make a custom client that sends to Twitter, Mastodon etc at the same time