[Cialug] Slack and Fediverse discussion

[Andrew Denner]

At this point everything is on the table. The discussion started when
someone had issues with installing the desktop client for slack as it
was broken after an update.

At the moment our twitter is not being used, @Kristau are you the one
with access to that? I think at the least sending toots to post our
meeting announcements makes sense.

As I said I really don't have strong opinions on the state of chat,
for historical perspective, we started out with Slack when someone
showed up one time and said something along the lines of eww who uses
IRC, all the cool kids are using slack... and then never attended
again after that meeting. I would love a more "free" solution and
wouldn't be opposed to matrix.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 3:08 PM theron at conrey.org <theron at conrey.org> wrote:
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> Is the intent to replicate our twitter account or add fediverse updates from our webpage?
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> For a slack replacement, was matrix considered? Rolling back to IRC?
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> I migrated from twitter to a mastodon instance a while back, I'm curious how this conversation evoloved!
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> Theron
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> On Thursday, March 20th, 2025 at 12:59 PM, Denner <denner at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > One of our members brought up considering if we want to move off of the
> > slack platform or not. I don't have strong feelings one way or another, and
> > am willing to yield to the thundering crowd.
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> > If you feel one way or the other: where should it be hosted, if it requires
> > self hosting are you willing to help etc.
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> > As for getting a lug page on mastadon in the fediverse. I am all for it.
> > Any proposals of where and if it requires an invite, do you have one or are
> > you willing to do the leg work to get us on there?
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