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Parasocial chat On Linux Matters we have a friendly and active, public Telegram channel linked on our Contact page, along with a Discord Channel. We also have links to Mastodon, Twitter (not that we use it that much) and email. At the time of writing there are roughly this ⬇️ number of people (plus bots, sockpuppets and duplicates) in or following each Linux Matters “official” presence: Channel Number Telegram 796 Discord 683 Mastodon 858 Twitter 9919 Preponderance of chat We chose to have a presence in lots of places, but primarily the talent presenters (Martin, Mark, and myself (and Joe)) only really hang out to chat on Telegram and Mastodon. [Read More]

This is another blog post lifted wholesale out of my weekly newsletter. I do this when I get a bit verbose to keep the newsletter brief. The newsletter is becoming a blog incubator, which I’m okay with. A reminder about that newsletter The newsletter is emailed every Friday - subscribe here, and is archived and available via RSS a few days later. I talked a bit about the process of setting up the newsletter on episode 34 of Linux Matters Podcast. [Read More]