Right we’d be interested in switching to something that is more in line with Solarpunk ideals as well but the main way of communicating is a weekly group call, so that functionality would need to exist on the Plattform we switch to. I’ll look into XMPP
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Our last few books have been fiction, but nonfiction is totally on the table if it can get the majority of the vote.
Depends on the book, if something is freely available we’ll provide links, otherwise we encourage library use and let everyone decide for themselves where they stand on piracy vs. buying the books.
Suggesting that someone read the article in a comment section under said article…blasphemy!
We take it pretty leisurely, we've mostly done a chapter a week, sometimes two. We found that there's always enough to discuss if you go deep enough on a given topic.
On iOS I’m very happy with Memmy, I was on Apollo before and it feels similar design-wise.
Yes, user-wise this won’t really negatively impact Reddit this is why I called it penny pinching, they weren’t losing out on huge amounts of money with the 3rd party apps. What I was mostly referring to is that moderators are frequently power users who either used 3rd party apps personally or used them because the moderator tools inside of them were way better than Reddit's native ones.
It’s ridiculous to me that there are still people volunteering to moderate, Reddit had such a good deal with running mostly on free labor that is satisfied with some scraps here and there.
And what do they do? Turn the people who are sustaining their business and ask for nothing in return hostile towards them over some penny pinching.
We normally do voice only calls of around 15 people max, so I think finding just a platform for that wouldn’t be that big of a problem. But it would be great if announcements and text communication in-between the calls could also happen on the platform, it’s already not easy to get people to attend regularly so I don’t want to put too many hurdles in their way, doesn’t really serve anyone if we have the perfect solution but nobody shows up anymore…I’ve been looking at Revolt as a true discord replacement and I could see ourselves realistically switching without losing too many people once the mobile apps are out of early access. But that’s for the group to decide.