7 Aug
2025
7 Aug
'25
9:33 a.m.
There's Revolt chat - a FOSS alternative to Discord:
https://github.com/revoltchat
I have no idea how difficult it is to install or maintain.
On Thu, Aug 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM Autonomous <autonomous666(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I know this is old school but myBB forums can be a
valuable tool for
communication and community building. MyBB is good for creating a permanent
knowledge base and having deep discussions that are focused on a specific
topic. For example, equipment such as a laser cutter would have a separate
forum with multiple threads so new users can access a knowledge base to
search and ask questions. If real-time chat is needed there are several
good plugins for that. MyBB runs on a LAMP stack and would need to be
self-hosted.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM Ethan Hu via sudo-discuss <
sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
I heard noisebridge is moving towards a
self-hosted Discord replacement.
Maybe that would work better if a more open design and multi-channel
features are needed.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM Jake <jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
I assume you're referring to starting a
Signal chat. I do use Signal
but I
don't think it's anything like a Discord, and a lot of people simply
won't use
it and even if they joined a Signal chat they would leave when it was
distracting them. There is a big difference between the way people use
Signal
and Discord, and Discord is a much better match for what the Sudoroom
community needs.
Of course there are already a bunch of Sudoroom groups on Signal, some of
which i'm a part of, but they're hidden except to people who are in
them, and
no history is kept. Signal exists to protect private conversations, and
community-building requires openness.
-jake
On Wed, 6 Aug 2025, Ethan Hu via sudo-discuss wrote:
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Let's get it started! We can email
usernames/phone numbers around
until the
group snowballs. Anyways, I haven't come to
any hardware hack nights
last
year either since I'm an undergrad.
As an extension of that, we could revive BACH <
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/BACH> by making an inter-hackerspace
Signal, which seems more conducive to involvement than the current
Discord
bridged setup.
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
> Ethan now that I think of it a big Signal chat would be pretty cool.
> That’s how a lot of other groups do it. Let me ask around - not sure
I can
> make it to hardware hack night this week
(moms in town)
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 30, 2025, at 16:41, Ethan Hu <ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>
> What happened to Noisebridge's BBS? I don't like that they have a
Discord.
> Even a giant Signal chat would be better than
that at times.
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh wow, so we can use something else? Is it really hard to host it?
>>
>> For me I don't want to chat so I don't even want to use turtles. I'd
>> rather have a bulletin board, the way that Noisebridge used to have.
>>
>> Is there a good BBS that's easy to host (I work a full time job) so I
>> don't have time to do it all...
>>
>>
>> =============================
>>
>> Romy Ilano
>> romy(a)snowyla.com
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>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM Ethan Hu <ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu>
wrote:
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>>> Why can't we use Matrix or something else FOSS and immune to
>>> enshittification?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:28 PM Romy Ilano via sudo-discuss <
>>> sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi I created a test SudoRoom server. It's not to replace turtles
but to
>>>> enhance it!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
>>>> Romy
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>> Romy Ilano
>>>> romy(a)snowyla.com
>>>>
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