[Cialug] Slack and Fediverse discussion

[kristau]

Hmm, my copy went to spam also. However, it didn't arrive until about 40
minutes after I did the login attempt so I bet it had expired by then?

I'll try again tomorrow after some sleep. . .

Thanks!

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM Barry Von Ahsen <vonahsen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> 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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