Messaging apps organized around private chats with basic group chats as an afterthought like Telegram, Signal, LINE, Hangouts, etc are right out.
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Matrix seems to be intended to be this federated utopia, with all the complexity and moderation headaches that entails. There are bridges to other platforms, which like all bridges, randomly break and are inconvenient.
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Mattermost and Rocket Chat are just Slack clones mostly intended for businesses to self-host or pay for cloud subs. I've used both. I'm not very impressed.
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I'm trying Zulip and it's... overcomplicated? I can see how topics make sense in certain larger communities with lots of task management (like Rust), but not really for a project like Asahi Linux. And then there's the bad first impression their approach to auth gave me already.
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Plus most of these haven't reached critical mass / appeal, except Discord and Slack (out for the aforementioned reasons)... and IRC.
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And so I'm left with the idea of just having a freenode channel, with
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Yes, it's terrible, it's plain text only, it has no sane file transfer, it has no log integration, it's not particularly newbie-friendly... but nothing else seems to be strictly better in enough ways. And at least I already know how it works and so do most FOSS devs.
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I haven't made my decision yet, feel free to try to change my mind.
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Replying to @marcan42
it might not be what you’re looking for but I don’t think Telegram’s group chats are an afterthought. I know of many FOSS projects successfully using supergroups to coordinate development; they’re fully featured enough and the fine grained admin settings are pretty powerful
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if you haven’t checked them out recently you really ought to. plus there are matrix and irc bridges you can use to allow people to interact from other platforms
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Replying to @GranPC
I am in a few Telegram group chats and they are not what I am looking for.
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