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Mastodon and Matrix instead?

dorinlazar 5y ago
Not for mainstream projects - plus those places tend to become political mudwaters, because freedom in tech has become political the past few years.
- cvwright 5y ago
  Agreed about Mastodon, unfortunately. But that has not been my experience with Matrix.
mdoms 5y ago
No one is on Mastodon or Matrix.
- jaredcwhite 5y ago
  I certainly wish people were on Mastodon (haven't tried Matrix yet). I ran a Mastodon instance for some time. The experience was decent but discovery was terrible, and discovery is what makes Twitter (for example) so compelling.
- 0des 5y ago
  Im on both. Mastodon has a busy busy community making the future of RSS and podcast feeds that I'm a big fan of, super welcoming people. Golang matrix has saved my bacon too many times to count, also great folks there. The best part about these, is that though we step off topic sometimes, generally everyone is really helpful and focused on the general subject matter. It's not endless gossip, in jokes and memes, these people actively find new faces, and then find places for them to fit in the community and things to take ownership of. These smaller networks are a rare type of community, and I love it.
  - pramodbiligiri 5y ago
    Can you tell me which are these communities on Mastodon working on RSS and podcast feeds? I happen to be doing work related to both, currently, and would like to check them out.
    - 0des 5y ago
      Sure! https://podcastindex.social https://podcastindex.social
- Seirdy 5y ago
  You can help change that situation by joining the million or so Fediverse users or improving the platform instead of publicly dismissing it because it doesn't have a billion dollars in funding. It's quite easy to put together a feed with an update a minute if you really want that much activity.
  - mdoms 5y ago
    Why would I do that?
    - rablackburn 5y ago
      Ladies and Gentlemen, the network lock-in effect in action. Humour aside, you would do it if you wanted to encourage movement of the closed silos. It's not likely that your irl friends and family will make the jump anytime soon, but getting dev communities to make the switch is a much more tractable problem.
Zababa 5y ago
Elixir and OCaml mostly use a forum and it works well. Everyone can read it, it's easy to post on it, it's easy to moderate it, and it's great when you want to search for things. I don't think microblogging and instant messaging are what an open source community needs.

Not for mainstream projects - plus those places tend to become political mudwaters, because freedom in tech has become political the past few years.

cvwright 5y ago
Agreed about Mastodon, unfortunately. But that has not been my experience with Matrix.

mdoms 5y ago

No one is on Mastodon or Matrix.

jaredcwhite 5y ago
I certainly wish people were on Mastodon (haven't tried Matrix yet). I ran a Mastodon instance for some time. The experience was decent but discovery was terrible, and discovery is what makes Twitter (for example) so compelling.
0des 5y ago
Im on both. Mastodon has a busy busy community making the future of RSS and podcast feeds that I'm a big fan of, super welcoming people. Golang matrix has saved my bacon too many times to count, also great folks there. The best part about these, is that though we step off topic sometimes, generally everyone is really helpful and focused on the general subject matter. It's not endless gossip, in jokes and memes, these people actively find new faces, and then find places for them to fit in the community and things to take ownership of. These smaller networks are a rare type of community, and I love it.
- pramodbiligiri 5y ago
  Can you tell me which are these communities on Mastodon working on RSS and podcast feeds? I happen to be doing work related to both, currently, and would like to check them out.
  - 0des 5y ago
    Sure! https://podcastindex.social https://podcastindex.social
Seirdy 5y ago
You can help change that situation by joining the million or so Fediverse users or improving the platform instead of publicly dismissing it because it doesn't have a billion dollars in funding. It's quite easy to put together a feed with an update a minute if you really want that much activity.
- mdoms 5y ago
  Why would I do that?
  - rablackburn 5y ago
    Ladies and Gentlemen, the network lock-in effect in action. Humour aside, you would do it if you wanted to encourage movement of the closed silos. It's not likely that your irl friends and family will make the jump anytime soon, but getting dev communities to make the switch is a much more tractable problem.

Zababa 5y ago

Elixir and OCaml mostly use a forum and it works well. Everyone can read it, it's easy to post on it, it's easy to moderate it, and it's great when you want to search for things. I don't think microblogging and instant messaging are what an open source community needs.