Replicate Loomio blogs on the fediverse

Sorry to everyone who was notified about this. It seems that there is a bug that allowed Strypey to notify everyone, although the setting is that people may not do this.

My apologies. I would have preferred not to notify anyone, but I seemed to be unable to start the thread without doing so. FYI trying to process all the notifications seemed to create some serious problems for the Loomio software (see attached screenshot). Perhaps This is because of the huge number of people in this group? Which I'm guessing this is why the group is meant to be set are to not to allow notifications.

You can start a thread without notifying everyone. You just close the window.

That's not at all clear from the UI. If sending notifications is optional, it would be good to have two buttons on the thread creation box, one for 'submit', and one for 'notify users' or somesuch.

I mean yes I would like to be in

I've now fixed the bug that allowed you to notify people in this group.

Cool. I've commented on the other bug that seems to be affecting that notification system in the Loomio 2.0 bug reporting thread.

I note that Loomio blog posts are replicated at Medium.com. That's understandable, it's a popular platform and a good place to get your articles in front of a readership who might not find find them at blog.loomio.org, or remember to check in there for new ones. Another place to find readers who are especially likely to be interested in the sorts of subjects folks write about on the Loomio blog, is the fediverse. It would be great to be able to follow the Loomio blog from my Mastodon or Friendica account, boost posts to bring them to the attention of other users who follow my feed etc. There are a number of federated blogging tools, any one of which could be deployed to accomplish this, either by co-publishing the blog pieces on a hosted instance, as you do with Medium, or perhaps feeding blog.loomio.org directly into the fediverse, as the Pterotype plugin does for Wordpress instances.

I am in

Hi @Dan could you clarify what you mean by "I would like to be in"? Are you saying you would like to follow the Loomio blog from the fediverse? Are you volunteering to set something up to make that possible? Something else?