Hi all,
As a community, how do we feel about Twitter these days? Generally speaking, it’s obviously not the platform it once was, but given recent events I was wondering if we might rather communicate through BlueSky instead (Seref, Kanthan and maybe more are already there). Or focus solely on Linkedin?
Either way, I’m happy to continue sending messages on X - perhaps just automate Linkedin updates if Elon will allow that - but if we’re positively anti-X, or there’s an exodus for BlueSky, then I don’t want to be left tweeting into the abyss.
What’s the general feeling?
Pete
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Hi @Pete_Bouvier lately I have found Twitter annoying and unhelpful, I even uninstalled from all my mobile devices and read it from time to time from the computer. For the other option, I don’t personally know what BlueSky is, But if it’s another micro-blogging app, I wouldn’t bother to use it for openEHR stuff. I think most of the public for openEHR is already on LinkedIn.
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There is also Mastodon, i would recommend just posting on all channels.
Its just duplicating posts anyways, there are probably even tools to do that.
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As a community promoting open standards, there’s something to be said for having an open standards based social media presence. An ActivityPub based platform such as Mastodon would be a good choice in that regard.
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I’m on BlueSky, and until recently, it’s been fairly quiet there. Now the numbers of users have surged, and it seems to me as the errors and missing functionality in the early versions has been fixed. The social media platforms doesn’t fit for discussions, so I will vote for keeping LinkedIn and Discource for the discussions, and rather post links to those at whatever platform there are. Personally I’m about to leave X, it has become a platform for bots and &%%#**-ists.
There are automated posts from CKM to X, so those will have to be posted elsewhere if we turn our backs to X.
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I am on Bluesky, although very much on the quiet side so far.
It has become a lot better and more and more content starts to appear there.
Also, discussions seems a lot more civilised than on X (for now anyway…)
I tried Mastodon, but got lost with their decentralised architecture and insufficient cross-searching capabilities (some of it may be me of course!) and have essentially abandoned it.
The latest changes around what X thinks “blocking” is have driven more users to Bluesky. Not to speak of all the barely disguised bots and the horrible pushing of political content that seems to reflect Elon’s mindset. Now that the US election is over and the German government has toppled, I suddenly get fed all this German politic content apparently again in line with what Elon thinks is best. So, I am pretty much done with it, and more than happy to see content on any other platform, and possibly more than one. Automated feeds from CKM to ex-twitter can but don’t necessarily need to be turned off immediately.
Also agree with @varntzen re keeping LinkedIn and Discourse for its current uses.
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How about Substack?
Those interested can subscribe to a newsletter with an email (no account required).
There are also “notes” which are short posts similar to X/Bluesky/Mastodon.
No-account-required and long+short posts is what differentiates it from other options.
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Somebody else in the community uses Substack, but I can’t recall who. It’s generally for long-form posts though, isn’t it, Borut?
The thing is, I don’t want to waste time across five different platforms, posting and responding to the same messages. We need to pick a couple where we can reach the most openEHR members and potentials…
Seriously, who came up with ‘Mastodon’ as a name?
I’ve been pretty happy with Mastodon since I left Twitter when Elon took over about two years ago. Of course this could be because I was part of a mass exodus of Norwegian twitter users to just a handful of Mastodon instances, so I didn’t have the initial issues trying to find “my people” that I’ve heard a lot of people experience. I generally don’t use it much for work related stuff though.
I also have an erratic presence on LinkedIn, but generally I’m pretty wary about corporate owned social media these days, after my previous experiences with Meta and Twitter.
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@Pete_Bouvier It started as a long-form posts newsletters for serious writers. They added short posts when Twitter changed owners. Links to Substack were quickly blocked by X.
There are too many messages on LinkedIn and it is hard to configure specific notifications. With Substack users subscribe with their emails and the messages don’t get lost on some feed like in the other social networks.
In the world of marketing there is no such thing as wasted time when posting 
There are tools to help with it (e.g. Typefulfy, Buffer).
I’m fine with any platform – just wanted to add one more option 
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Someone with great taste in merch 
Mastodon stuffed toy – Mastodon Merch
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Yeah - I’m looking into them - can’t find a free one!
It’s official - we’re now on Bluesky. Follow at will - @openehr.bsky.social on Bluesky
What’s Elon ever done anyway? Apart from paypal. And Teslas. And that string of satellites. And catching that rocket…
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I’ve sent a request to enable bridging the account to the ActivityPub fediverse. I hope you’ll accept it so we can interact also from the fediverse.
Great!
I wonder if the “Bio” can be altered to something more in line of what’s on the website? The one from Twitter/X is “…turning health data from the physical form into electronic form”, which is probably a bit outdated.
What about:
“openEHR’s commitment is to create an open platform for patient-centered health data. Based on a standard architecture for future-proof health information, openEHR offers a path from silos of data to longitudinal, patient-centred care, for life”
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Love it - much better.
Of course.
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I tried Mastodon but didn’t quite get around to putting in the effort of shifting fully over.
Agree with everyone else that X is now just too awful to waste time on.
I am on Bluesky and it does feel like Twitter used to do in about 2015, when I had a proper feed from people in health tech who I wanted to hear from. @marcusbaw.bsky.social on Bluesky
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