Privacy Respecting Replacement for facebook groups

[Jerry Feldman]

We used Mastadon in our red hat dept. Not sure it is a good replacement for
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 12:42 PM Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org>
wrote:

> I tried to build Mastodon about a year or two ago for the same reason and
> it was a disaster. The directions were garbage, the build failed
> differently each time I tried (even within Docker), and the support was
> inadequate. I had to give up on it. Might try again sometime to see if it's
> improved.
>
> -Mark
>
> On September 29, 2020 12:11:53 PM EDT, Lori Nagel <jastiv at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone, I'm trying to figure out a privacy  respecting
>> replacement for facebook groups.  I want something that is easy to join,
>> (so no requirement that you learn email encryption, system administration
>> or anything "hard"  but also something that even Richard Stallman wouldn't
>> object to (not that I'm trying to recruit him to join it, just some people
>> are really zealots about stuff, if it doesn't have javascript that is also
>> a bonus.)
>> I've also considered things like email lists, matermost, irc and forums,
>> and I've dismissed them for the following reasons.
>> 1. Lots of people just ignore email thesse days, plus it isn't really
>> very real time.
>> 2. irc is just a chat channel, too many bots and while it is real time,
>> it doesn't really have any persistance of topics.
>> 3. Forums tend to be too public with just anyone can join it, and while
>> you can have private forums or private sections of forums, you need to be
>> an administrator to set that all up.  Plus forums tend to have things like
>> spralling topics,  and things that either get out of date, or else there is
>> no conversation about the subject (thread necromancy vs an empty forum.)  I
>> want to create a small group that is highly engaged with the subject,
>> chatting everyday etc.
>> 4. Email messages from lists you need to get info from can end up in spam
>> if you don't set up email right.  It is too easy to miss important messages
>> cause you get consumed with marketing or things you inadvertantly signed up
>> for and should not have.
>> 5. Matermost is like discord, but then I would have to set it up, and I'm
>> not a professional system admin. If i spend all my time learning
>> professional system admin skills, then I won't get to do what I want, which
>> is interacting with people.
>>
>> Just on a whim I also checked into Dissporia and groups.io, mastadon
>> doesn't really have groups yet, and I don't think all the source code for
>> groups.io is included.
>>
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