#SCOTUS is likely to decide the cases by June, in the critical months ahead of the #election.
#FirstAmendment experts warn that either argument could lead to outcomes that would be deleterious for #democracy. If the court rules in favor of the #tech companies, the industry could argue that the 1A precludes a broad array of proposed #regulation. If the states win, govts across the country may push ahead w/rules that give states unprecedented #influence over #political#discourse#online.
#Discourse, you mean the org using cloudfront.net (AWS), a tool to gather lots of personal data and make the Internet a capitalist private network infrastructure for its website?
What a huge progress for a free distributed world we can trust, for sure!
I have maintained, and continue to maintain, that my concerns about #Meta and the #Fediverse have nothing to do with threads as such and everything to do with how they act around the protocol.
Them releasing a client or a server would be very, very bad news in this space. Them running a multi-tenant (or multi-single-tenant) setup would be very, very bad for the fediverse.
Their presence on a single domain just doesn't say or do all that much in the grand scheme of things.
@hrefna my two cents: chasing the dwindling former twitter addict pool (which seems to be the meta/threads objective) is not the future of the #fediverse.
Its unique appealing proposition is not social media as we have come to dislike, but it is the federation of very diverse types of servers where people create real and lasting value. Think e.g., all these important #discourse communities.
Imho the protocol(s) should leapfrog to the desired end state and leave the mastodon era behind.
Les deux solutions qui marchent le mieux dans ce que je connais c'est https://monnaie-libre.fr/#agenda qui utilise #discourse en backend. Tout le monde peut publier des événements géolocalisés et datés, en intégrant un système de conversation.
@veloren I've used Mattermost and Discourse a lot myself.
Mattermost makes sense when you want to use it like Slack - the thing it's a clone of. It's best used when you have little teams/subgroups of people tackling certain medium- to long-persisting areas of development or work, which are organized into "channels". Channels are sort of like "mega-threads." Each of these channels/mega-threads has a system of permissions on it as to who's allowed in, "pinned" posts, etc. The included "Boards" (kanban board feature) is additionally like Trello - great for making todo lists and tracking tasks, with comments, etc.
Discourse makes sense when it's a bunch of disjoint, random little questions about anything and everything (you know, "threads"), and there isn't any sense of coordinated teamwork.
Of the two, I prefer #Mattermost team server, because it's more lightweight (written in #Go, will run even on a #RaspberryPi 4), and has a decent #Android App with push notifications. #Discourse has a less likeable mobile experience, IMHO.
Mattermost is for people who need to get a larger project (comprised of many sub-projects) done. Discourse is just for bantering forever on some broad, wide-open area of discussion, never converging on anything.
Fuer alle, die euch sagen wollen, dass #Mastodon gescheitert und/oder eine Geisterstadt sei.... dies sind die Interaktionen und Benachrichtigungen der letzten 21h auf meinem Account.
Fuer mich der Beweis dafuer, dass man nicht immer da sein muss, wo der vermeintliche #Zeitgeist ist!
Schoen, dass ihr hier seid, auch wenn es ja so wahnsinnig kompliziert ist diese Plattform zu nutzen 😁
@pallenberg@buckaroo Ich bin ab und zu im OpenStreetMap-Forum. Das basiert auf #Discourse und ist eine lebendige Community, die genau ihren Zweck erfüllt. Aber es hat keine 100 Mio User. Also sollte man es lieber schließen.
If you look at Wikipedia's list of forum software, it's all ancient except discourse, and discourse seems unlikely to ever be something great for users
Its performance is famously terrible. People often point out how unusable it is unless you have a fast phone and the founder's response to this has been to rant about how Qualcomm sucks and need to make faster processors
@jernej__s@danluu we could spend more time and energy on getting on Wikipedia (and maybe we should!), but it left such a sour taste in my mouth that I just haven't wanted to consider it for the past ~8-9 years.
#Discourse filled a niche at a good time. It got endorsement from high profile devs and got cool funding, lots of buzz, etc. All the power to them.
A year or two later we just decided to build a good product and let it speak for itself. What's more #foss than that LOL
I dislike a few aspects of the #Discourse forum #UX, especially the relentless gamification of banal user actions ("Congratulations, you just made your first poop") and its approach to categories.
I have to admit, though, that it also gets many things right, which you only really notice if you spend a lot of time with a Discourse forum. The read/post experience is quite relaxing, and the UX for keeping up with new new posts, notifications, etc. seems solid.
@eloquence after a while the annoying badges tail off but it would be nice to be able to disable this at sign up as it is a pain in each new forum when you've been using it for almost a decade.
Another annoyance is still flagging posts as unread when it's a reply from someone you set to ignore. Handling in that area is pretty poor actually.
Otherwise it is fantastic, so I'd still choose #Discourse forum softwares over anything else.
@gael@telegram@signalapp@matrix Useful easy to follow discussions are difficult without threads/topics like #discourse forums or even email threads. I heard #Matrix or #Element supports or will support threads but haven't encountered them in any groups yet.
Today's question for a resilient #Fediverse is whether various different initiatives are willing to collaborate and cross-pollinate, while keeping their independence.
There's great opportunity to increase the cohesion of the #GrassrootsFedi#ActivityPub developer community and creating strong joins:
"Deficiencies of power in the present are compensated with claims of grandeur and power in the future. This is one of the many reasons why the stronger power usually has to take the first step. Resolving things requires setting most of those narratives and aspirations to the side to arrive at some way to live together in the present."
#CfP for the #conference "Imagining Italy: Space, #Gender and #Discourse in #Women’s Writing 1789-1914 // L’Italie sous la plume des femmes : espace, #genre, #discours 1789-1914", which will take place at the University of Lorraine (#Univ_Lorraine) on November 7 and 8, 2024.
"Recognition of the significance of speech acts has illuminated the ability of language to do other things than describe reality. In the process the boundaries among the philosophy of language, the philosophy of action, aesthetics, the philosophy of mind, political philosophy, and ethics have become less sharp. "
hm. if i see correctly the #discourse docker image does not only just update all the gems, it also pulls discourse from the default (main) branch which does not look like a release branch ... well isn't that fun ... it also does not care about the ruby version defined in the discourse repo, which only is a .ruby-version.sample file using older ruby lol
Want your Discourse community to join the list and help bring in new community members? There's a link at the bottom of the sidebar documenting how to join the party.
I just discovered this #Discourse plugin that I think could reduce the Maker Forums Discourse spam moderation problem by about 50%. There are a few ASNs which are responsible for an outsize proportion of our incoming spam...