[TCLCORE] Tcl is now on Mastodon

[Torsten B. <be...@ty...>]

Dear all,

on the chat, we have talked a bit about Tcl's representation in social media. There is a Twitter/X account that already runs for a long time. It is mainly used for announcements (see here: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Twitter).

Now, I thought it would be the time for something new. As a part of the initiative to renew Tcl's manual pages, website and it's online presentation as a whole, I have now opened an account on Mastodon.

Ashok and Arjen (as admins of the Twitter channel) and others agree to closing the Twitter channel and move the activity from there over to Mastodon. In order to reach a wider audience, this account will also be bridged to Bluesky so people can follow the content from there also and interact.

The idea is to not only post announcements but also give some hints and coding snippets, make a series presenting all the new features in Tcl 9, point people at interesting pages from the wiki and lots of other bits and pieces.

You are welcome to contribute! Just drop me an email or write a direct message to the Mastodon account. Here it is:

https://fosstodon.org/@tcl_tk

By the way, the @tcltk account was already taken on fosstodon (it started in August 2023 but has no posts and cannot be followed) so I went with @tcl_tk instead (which is maybe even better).

The bridge to Bluesky doesn't work yet but I hope I can make that work soon (it should work out of the box by just following @bsk...@bs... on Mastodon but somehow nothing happens ... I have activated it for my private Mastodon account and had similar issues there but finally it worked somehow).

Thanks to @dbohdan for making the contact to fosstodon.org so we can have an account there.

Best wishes, Torsten