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That sentence was right after this paragraph: > Talking over phone is the most reliable way to announce the party, send reminders and confirmations, and to coo
by philsnow 3y ago
That sentence was right after this paragraph:
> Talking over phone is the most reliable way to announce the party, send reminders and confirmations, and to coordinate during the party. That way, there's no question of "didn't check my messages/email".
Maybe it’s different in India but here in the states, when you tell most people that you’re not coordinating with imessage/sms (or fb messenger or whatsapp), you’ll get blank stares. I’m reminded of this: http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/fault-tolerance.png http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/fault-tolerance.png
- contrapunctus 3y agoAuthor here, and it's quite similar in India. Everyone expects me to WhatsApp them the details, and the ubiquity of proprietary platforms is infuriating. Thankfully we've been able to use cell calls and SMS/email until we can onboard them to XMPP. (Many of us in the Delhi OSM community are free software and XMPP advocates.)
- philsnow 3y agoNote, I'm very sympathetic to not wanting to use proprietary platforms in general [0], but I'm not at a point in my life where I can spend any brain glucose at all on it. [0] in particular because of the plight of the umbrella protestors in Hong Kong and the government's infiltration of coordination platforms