[Tagging] Consensus switching away from mailinglists? Was: Time to split the list?

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Friendica is a federated FOSS social networking service supporting
ActivityPub that also offers forums. It has addons that eases email
contribution and reading, but that could be improved further with a
few pull requests (and would be welcomed by the developers).

I think you could also use that in place of chat as well for most use
cases - it has a nice thread-based conversation view of thread
replies.

On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 8:48 PM Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com> wrote:
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> Florian Lohoff <f at zz.de> writes:
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> > On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 11:40:20AM +0000, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> >> With that in mind I think it would be a shame to rework this list only
> >> a few months before we have a better alternative available. I don't
> >> have a view (and I don't think OSMF has taken a view) on what happens
> >> to individual lists after Discourse is made available. If anyone
> >> really does want to have the discussion about which platform is best,
> >> I'd suggest talk@ is a better venue for that discussion than tagging at .
> >
> > Is there a general consensus amongst the users to drop mailinglists per
> > se and switch to web based discussion forms?
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> Absolutely not.  Mailinglists allow efficient interaction with lcoal
> sorting and adjusting, and web-based stuff causes repeititve stress
> injuries from endless clicking and one-at-time slowness.
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> > I havent seen ANY discussions about this. For myself i am more used to
> > mailinglists as these are a "push" technology whereas web based
> > discussions are more of "pull" based technologies.
> >
> > And i do follow mailinglists like linux-kernel which are by far the
> > mailinglists with the most traffic.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > And i dont think splitting comunitys over and over again into the
> > different communication channels is a good thing to do. By now we
> > have a lot of telegram channels, we have the forum, mailinglists, irc
> > channels, and slack channels.
> >
> > For me adding discourse is like the XKCD about adding another standard.
>
> What would be good is to add something that is open source for
> forum-like, and remove all other forums.
>
> And then add matrix, which is open protocol, open source, and federated,
> bridge IRC into it, and stop using slack and telegram.
>
> Then we'd have mail, forum, chat, only 3 places, and none of them
> defective by being controlled by some company, proprietary software,
> user agreements, etc.
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