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🐸 Simon Why are Discord and Slack two different apps? They work and feel so similarly. Are the needs of "communities" different from those of a "company"?
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🤷 Rudi That's a cool coincidence, what kind of social network do you build? Guessing from the name, is it some kind of social forum like reddit?
🦿 Lucian Marin It was a public version of Slack or IRC.
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🗿 Jonah that's really cool! do you have any other 'small internet'/unconventional social networks, tools or extensions? I am starting to spend more time on things like rep.ly and unfeeder and subreply readCV
🦿 Lucian Marin There was a public IRC/Slack but I shut it down. In addition to Unfeeder and Subreply, there are the 3 macOS apps which you can download for free. I will constantly improve Subreply because I enjoy it myself.
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🤘 Matthew I'm looking forward to Slackware 15...
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🧐 Nrmn But why this way? Why not encrypt a separate key (maybe even per message exchange) that is reencrypted when the password gets changed.
🦿 Lucian Marin I thought user should have the "key" for their sent messages. Re-encrypting is possible, but not privacy aware. It could be a separate service similar to IRC/Slack.
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⌨️ Joseph Any good recommendations for an RSS reader? I'm trying to curb my mindless scrolling of things like Reddit and HN. I'm on iOS for mobile if that matters.
🐽 Zxh I use Slack for a RSS reader. You can have a try.
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Dan Heath Who can share an example of technology initially used in a personal context which has shifted into a business/enterprise environment?
Ritardando IRC is now Slack. BYOD everything. Enterprise is different from business, as enterprise is basically bureaucracy/institution, where business includes startups and SMBs. The entire security market originated in personal hacking tools, etc.
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👁️ Mbladra What do you miss about it?
🌌 Tom the 'buzz' for want of a better word - spontaneous conversations with colleagues, team lunches, company-wide meetings etc. slack is great in that it allows our current team of ~15 people to be distributed all over Europe, but it will never provide that same 'buzz'
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Steve B. Slackware Linux is one of the last surviving Linux distributions which is easy to use, rock solid stable, and doesn't bend with the flavor of the month. Check out -current today.
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Adam Douglas Isn't it just Debian, but for people who want to post screenshots of their desktop backgrounds with minimum effort? Ubuntu with street-cred? ElementaryOS looks okay as an alternative. I've always stuck with Slackware because it's what I started with and I don't care what it looks like. dwm and done.
Steve B. Slackware is the best ...
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🦿 Lucian Marin I want to create a chat based app that works exactly like IRC. Slack, but public. Reddit, but no threads. Sublevel, but not social. Convore was the closest thing to this, but I'm not sure why they give up.
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👽 Paul Webb Money is always the motive convore-blog.tumbl...
Tamal White Matrix is decentralized matrix.org/blog/home
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Mark Dain Firefox Quantum [?]. I've been using the nightly builds for some time, it's renewed so much hope I had for Firefox beating the "but Chrome is faster" myth - it only feels faster. Mozilla overhauled the UI to be just as slick. I can't wait to see Firefox in 2018 now they're working on "HolyJit" which is a new JS engine, which, just like Stylo, is written in Rust! Safer and faster than Chrome in the long run, that's my bet.
👽 Paul Webb I really want an Electron version of HolyJit. Slack is TERRIBLE on desktop and I suspect it's a mix of poor coding and Electron's Chromium overhead.
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John Olinda So I've been rattling around an idea for a tool that functions as a teacher's assistant, via email (or I suppose chat would work as well). It would be designed to interact with teachers, students, and parents to remind about upcoming assignments and calendar events. I'm assuming there are projects similar to this in the wild, but I'm wondering what would be required to roll my own. Probably too much.
Mark Dain Sounds a bit like a tool I built at my company. It's a Slack bot that responds to various questions about Linux usage (not everyone is comfortable with command line usage). Simple questions like "how do I create files?" will reply with a message about touch and about available text editors (it'll always recommend nano). More complicated questions, it provides wiki links. It can also handle poorly written questions like "hwo to delte directory???". Honestly, it just cleans up the input a bit, then uses a gigantic regex. Works better than you'd think.
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🦿 Lucian Marin Twist (twistapp.com) is exactly how my project management app would have worked. My ideas aren't always unique, except maybe Sublevel.
Sojourner Wow. Someone should tell bitquabit.com/post....
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👽 Paul Webb I love that I can use GitHub as a file upload site, lol cloud.githubuserco... This is what I have sketched so far. Speaking in a Slack group about the influx of new users back lack of engagement, I started thinking of how to solve that. Every social network feels great from the beginning, when there aren't that many people using it. When it grows, existing users don't like it and stop posting as much if at all. The private groups you can easily switch to would solve that, I think.
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😀 Tom I'm not sure about the rest, but I've also thought that some customization (maybe not as extreme as Myspace) would be great.
Martijn Mastodon offers the "private groups" in a way that an instance can have their own rules for who gets to sign-up, and you always have an activity feed local to the specific instance. E.g. Sublevel could have been a Mastodon instance that we all like communicating on, and then we can follow people we know from other instances without having to leave our own. Kevin Marks even published a tool today that helps you find an instance where the local feed interests you: known.kevinmarks.c...
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Mark Dain Do you think federated networks can ever be easy enough for the average person to set up and use? That seems like the only solution; we run the servers and keep control over our data
👽 Paul Webb That's probably THE major, if not only, hurdle. The onboarding process is key. For Socii, I don't want to deal with password management either. I've been using passwordless.net for my current SaaS app and I absolutely love it. None of my future SaaS products will utilize passwords again and I believe they are a hurdle as well. It just encourages poor decisions, especially since so many services want our attention. Anyhoo, this was just a brain dump, there needs to be a LOT more thought put into this. I just thought of a network that does onboarding quite well: Slack. They also have a passwordless login (kinda).
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