And it's nice to see that the TechnicolorRainbow group is alive and well -- it's the home for the Book club at Hackers.Town instance.
One book a month, to be read by anyone interested, and can be discussed via the @TechnicolorRainbow Group. Neat.
January 2020 Book of the Month is : "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World" by Joseph Menn.
RT of : https://hackers.town/@ryen/103372347108203901
** See an Explanation of what Guppe Groups is, how it works, how to sign up; illustrated. Here at our Discourse Forum (a copy of my original posts at HT).
https://discourse.qoto.org/t/technicolorrainbow-a-proposal-for-a-user-group-mailing-list/183
@design_RG You have just implmented the groups function that used to be on GNUsocial/Statusnet, great.
@ghostdancer Ah, the credit for creating Guppe Groups is not mine, I just made used the ssoftware and created the group for the Book Club, plus these two posts to show people how it works.
The project is William's, located at https://github.com/wmurphyrd/guppe
I haven't used GNUsocial, and it's nice if it supported the group creation and usage. It's one of the best thing in Facebook, the groups; some are quite informative and active.
@ghostdancer You are very welcome, I came across the project by chance, seeing a post by William and starting to try and use it.
It's still in Alpha phase, but seems to work fine. We will need some moderation, controls to list access before a wider deployment; for now it could be spammed to death, sadly. But William is doing good work on it.
William is at : @datatitian
@ghostdancer
Ah -- good to know. I think the Facebook Groups feature are the best they have at their site. It allows focused discussions, and full moderation, different privacy selections, etc. Well done, I enjoyed some good groups there, with knowledgeable users.
But haven't visited the site lately or posted in many months; just leaving my stuff there for now, but not adding any content.
The Book Club group at Hackers.town seems to be working well, I as happy to see that since I made the push for it to use this as a channel. Much nicer than a hashtag alone, and each participant gets personally notified of any new posts.
@design_RG That also was the problem with groups in GNUsocial , but as we were just a happy few it worked mostly :-) @datatitian