Discord is not the answer.
Fediverse is
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I suspect they're complementary, serving different needs. Twitter is more discovery/loose, Discord is more closed/deep. vgr has enough network to make the former less necessary.
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Also fediverse doesn’t really work as a twitter substitute for dis overt anyway. Tried it. It’s its own thing that I don’t have as much use for.
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The problem with the fediverse are the "pale copy" apps: "We're just like Twitter/Facebook/whatever, but with noone of your friends! And we cost money! And aren't quite as slick!"
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Oh! I see you two really know about this stuff.
What would you suggest to an old man with excess compute and storage in his garage?
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What kind of compute? A rack of recent hardware? A 20 year old desktop running windows XP?
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😀 Run a post-apocalyptic network hub connected to ham radio?
Why do you have this grade hardware in your garage?
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I was raised in network operations, so it comes naturally. The hardware has astonishing build quality, but he bank scrapped it because of cisco EOL'd support. I have considered meshed networks using meshed wrt65g...
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That would be cool, diy telco for the people



