Aloha pluggies!
The proposal ============== As the subject line mentions, it is interesting to note that PLUG has no presence on any of the fediverse platforms. For those who are new to the term, fediverse = Federated social networks running on FOSS. I believe that limiting ourselves to only a couple of platforms (where one of the platforms is a proprietary service) isn't going to help in getting quality people to come in and share their experiences/ideas. We have a few options like: 1. Riot/Matrix <http://matrix.org/> 2. diaspora* <https://diasporafoundation.org/> 3. Mastodon <https://joinmastodon.org/> We have Riot/Matrix and diaspora* services hosted on Indian servers which we can definitely use. I had a chat with Dexter yesterday after the PLUG meet and he was open to creating PLUG's presence on such platforms. However he was concerned about how these accounts will be handled and the content which will be shared under PLUG's banner. I completely understand this concern and I'm ready to take on the responsibility of these accounts and making sure incorrect content is not shared. What I request here is everyone's opinion on whether we should go ahead and increase PLUG's presence on the fediverse or follow the same old practices. About IRC and Riot/Matrix integration ====================================== A couple of months ago, we (me, Raju, Gaurav and Kshitij) had requested for access to the IRC channel so that we can connect it with the Riot/Matrix room. We didn't get the access because people were against logging of the chat on IRC. 15 of the total 20 people active on the channel right now have connected through Riot/Matrix which means the chats are already being logged on their servers. In any case, we created another native room over Matrix/Riot and asked everyone to join that room for better access and control. Note that this is an unofficial fork of #pluggies on freenode and we'd love to convert this into a plumbed room and make it official. If anyone would like to join the Riot/Matrix room, the address is : #pluggies:disroot.org Alternatively, you can also join the IRC channel through Riot/Matrix. The address is : #freenode_#pluggies:matrix.org Regards, Dhanesh B. Sabane Website: https://dhanesh95.gitlab.io Riot/Matrix: @dhanesh95:disroot.org Mastodon: @dhanes...@mstdn.io diaspora* : https://diasp.in/u/dhanesh95
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