Created a test SudoRoom Discord server - not to replace turtles but to enhance! - sudo-discuss

Ethan Hu

30 Mar 30 Mar

4:32 p.m.

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:

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Hi I created a test SudoRoom server. It's not to replace turtles but to enhance it! Best, Romy ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com _______________________________________________ sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org More options at https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/

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Ethan Hu

4:40 p.m.

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:

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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 On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM Ethan Hu <ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu> wrote: > 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 >> >> ============================= >> >> Romy Ilano >> romy(a)snowyla.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >> More options at >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >> > > > > >

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Romy Ilano

5:09 p.m.

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Romy Ilano

6:30 p.m.

People aren't that into using the discord server and i feel it was a bad idea! i'll close it! better to have a signal group ============================= Romy Ilano romy(a)snowyla.com On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM William Myers <williamrmyers(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Where's the link to the server? On Sun, Mar 30, 2025, 5:10 PM Romy Ilano via sudo-discuss < sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org> 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 On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM Ethan Hu <ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu> wrote: > 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 >> >> ============================= >> >> Romy Ilano >> romy(a)snowyla.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >> More options at >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >> > > > > >

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Jake

2:28 p.m.

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 On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM Ethan Hu <ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu> wrote: > 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 >> >> ============================= >> >> Romy Ilano >> romy(a)snowyla.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >> More options at >> https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >> > > > > >

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Autonomous

7 Aug 7 Aug

9:06 a.m.

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:

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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:

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 >> >> >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM Ethan Hu <ethanhu(a)berkeley.edu>

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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 >>>> >>>> ============================= >>>> >>>> Romy Ilano >>>> romy(a)snowyla.com >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> sudo-discuss mailing list -- sudo-discuss(a)sudoroom.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to sudo-discuss-leave(a)sudoroom.org >>>> More options at >>>>

https://sudoroom.org/lists/postorius/lists/sudo-discuss.sudoroom.org/ >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> >> >

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