Interested, but not on discord, which is like the opposite of solarpunk. Bookwyrm would be cool, though, or lemmy/kbin/etc
Sounds awesome - thanks for the invite! It would be cool to have this on Bookwyrm or even Lemmy
Yeah, I'd be interested too, but I'm not interest in feeding useful information into another corporate-controlled walled garden. Especially not solarpunk content, that should be antithetical to the basic idea..
Lemmy would be good for coordinating it, but it definitely makes sense to share reviews on bookwyrm.
Hosting chats of the books on XMPP could be another option, which would allow for group calls as well, at least on Movim.
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
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?
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.
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.
XMPP, Matrix, heck, so many things.
The space to discuss Solarpunk itself and Solarpunk related stuff that doesn't fit elsewhere.
Join our chat: Movim or XMPP client.