[Cialug] Slack and Fediverse discussion

[kristau]

I have a credential for the CIALUG X/Twitter account, but when I just tried
to log in it sent a "Confirmation code" to contact at cialug.org. . . which I
don't have access to...

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM Andrew Denner <denner at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > Is the intent to replicate our twitter account or add fediverse updates
> from our webpage?
> >
> > For a slack replacement, was matrix considered? Rolling back to IRC?
> >
> > I migrated from twitter to a mastodon instance a while back, I'm curious
> how this conversation evoloved!
> >
> > Theron
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent with Proton Mail secure email.
> >
> > On Thursday, March 20th, 2025 at 12:59 PM, Denner <denner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > If you feel one way or the other: where should it be hosted, if it
> requires
> > > self hosting are you willing to help etc.
> > >
> > > 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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