[Cialug] Slack and Fediverse discussion

[Barry Von Ahsen]

mine went to spam, I can share the code if you need

-barry



On 3/20/25 18:48, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> 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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