Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 37

I was too busy live-posting here or scratching down notes to notice, but my wife was fascinated to watch the way #Slido was being used at #Netizen21. A lot of the audience were using it during the talks to share their thoughts about what the speakers were talking about, and upvoting each others' comments. This is similar to the way I imagined #Loomio being used at #OpenSourceOpenSociety back in 2015. Except that Loomio would make it easier to keep those conversations going after the event.

One thing I really wish #jabber app like #Conversations could do is ephemeral small group chats. The sort of thing where you just want to make one-off arrangements with a few people, or have a quick check-in to get on the same page, but you know you won't need to group chat for long enough to make it worth setting up a #MUC room. The fediverse can be useful for this, and Wire's group chat is better for this than ongoing team chat IMHO.

#JustDiscovered today, #PPIO,
"A decentralized data storage and delivery platform for developers that value affordability, speed, and privacy":
https://www.pp.io/

#OSE (Open Source Ecology) moved their mailing lists to #phpList in March of this year.
https://www.opensourceecology.org/moving-to-open-source-email-list-software/

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that fully nomadic rooms within the
@matrix network is the goal (thus the odd room ID schema), but the details of implementation are still being worked out?
@lnxw48a1 @clacke

@matrix any comments on the cloning of rooms between Matrix homeservers? (see preceding thread)
@lnxw48a1 @clacke

Help stop the privatization of Public Interest Registry, the steward of the .org domain space. Please sign the letter of protest to
#AndrewSullivan, President and CEO of the US #InternetSociety, and spread the word:
https://savedotorg.org/

@lnxw48a1 for example, the vidcommonswork group was started at a self-hosted homeserver. I joined with a matrix.org account and set an alias: #vidcommonswork:matrix.org . AFAIK that group is now co-hosted on matrix.org.
@clacke

@lnxw48a1 are you on matrix.org or another homeserver? Most accounts and rooms are currently on matrix.org for legacy reasons (#Synapse being a resource heavy prototype putting people off self-hosting being the main one). If you go to a room that appears to be on a different homeserver from your account, you can go to the 'room details' and set an alias for it on your server. My understanding is that then clones the room to your homeserver (if nobody on your homeserver has done it).
@clacke

@wftl LOL Not too far off the mark ;)

@aldobelus
It might work, but not every Trisquel user would necessarily know that. Besides, the main point is that it makes sense for a GNU Project member to promote at least one GNU endorsed distro.
@Jami

@m4iler
> Why introduce people to something that doesn't have E2EE?

No E2EE is better than E2EE that's unreliable or so confusing that users can end up not encrypted when they think they are, lulled into a false sense of security. That's currently the state of E2EE in Matrix, and I presume Pattle will ship an implementation once its ready to be turned on by default in Riot.
@njoseph

@tyil
> That one single bridge has had more issues than all servers of the dozen IRC networks I'm connected to right now.

It's also a massive SPOV in an otherwise decentralized network, one that has a masssive centralized service trying to push and pull data through it.
@milan

@nurinoas Mumble is audio only. Fascinated to check out #Jaamr, anyone know what license #Wahjam is under?
@luka @felix @cybercow

@kekcoin
> isnt Riot also electron-based?

The desktop version, yes. AFAIK the mobile versions are native. Also none of the Riot versions require mobile phone number.
@debacle @amarsharma @praveen @h_tejas

@njoseph
> [#Pattle] doesn't seem to have implemented E2E encryption yet.

The implementation of #E2EE in Matrix still needs a bit more time in the oven anyway, so a simpler app without it is probably a better way to introduce new users to Matrix for the time being.

@lnxw48a1 I thought the same thing until I realized that Matrix rooms aren't tied to a single server. Every homeserver that has a user in the room is also a host of that room. So unlike #GNUsocial !groups or #jabber #MUC rooms, Matrix rooms continue merrily on unless every single server that has a member in the room goes away. So it makes no sense to say a room is @domain.foo. That's only the case when all room member are from one homeserver. The plan is to make user accounts similarly nomadic.

@Wolf480pl Yeah that's the more common usage of crowd. The aggregation of people at a busy public transport station or maybe a concert. 'Wisdom of crowds' is an rather poetic usage. Another word similarly used slightly outside its common meaning is "swarm" as #RickFalkvinge uses it in '#Swarmwise'.