[Cialug] Slack and Fediverse discussion

[Barry Von Ahsen]

Contact at is me, theron and you.  Mail log says yours and theron's were
accepted, and mine was graylisted

-barry

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025, 16:42 kristau <kristau at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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