Want to be part of a Solarpunk Bookclub? (slrpnk.net)

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Hey Solarpunk people! I'm back to ask if you'd like to join our booklcub. We are a small community of readers, writers, and activists that is dedicated to exploring Solarpunk and adjacent literature. Every week, we discuss one chapter of a book that we choose together. So far, we have read eight books, including The Dispossessed, the Monk and Robot series and a few short story collections. If you want to join our book club just in time to pick our next read, please swing by. We’d be happy to have more people to share thoughts and insights with!

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hosting chats of the books on XMPP could be another option, which would allow for group calls as well, at least on Movim.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Should mention that Slrpnk.net hosts an XMPP instance which any Slrpnk member can access using their existing slrpnk lemmy login. You can access it via our Movim instance in the browser, or from any other XMPP client :D

I believe you should be able to create a room there that other people could connect to.

It's different from Discord in that you can't have a whole server with various different categories and rooms, it just has individual group chats (though possible to create multiple group chats of different subjects).

If having a single big server with different rooms is needed, I think Element (Matrix protocol) can do that.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Does anyone in the group selfhost? I just installed Jitsi Meet (which is like zoom) on my server and it sounds like that could work for you. I've only just tested it out and haven't had any big calls on it yet but it seems great. How many people usually join the weekly call?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

XMPP, Matrix, heck, so many things.

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