Yes. Keybase works well. Anyone can join. It's pretty easy. On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 12:14 PM Michael Holley <mailingli...@michaelholley.us> wrote:
> I have a Keybase account, but I've never tried using the chatting feature. > Do you have any experience with that? Also is it easy to get into now a > days? A few years back you had to get an invite to participate. > > > > On March 20, 2019 at 11:30:30 AM, Josh Mudge (mathwhiz1...@gmail.com) > wrote: > > What about Keybase? > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019, 10:40 AM AJ ONeal (Home) <coola...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm not big on online chat these days because to me it seems to be just > > giphys and other noise. > > > > However, I can't stand Slack. I hate that it's closed. Not just closed > as > > in closed beer, but closed as in closed speech. Everything is silo'd off > > into a time-bomb bitbucket. None of the history is preserved. It's not > > searchable. If ever something useful goes on, it just goes to the black > > hole. I'm also not a fan of how a simple chat app requires more CPU and > RAM > > than most operating systems... but that's probably true of all of them > > these days... > > > > If it's easy to preserve searchable (i.e. Google-able) history with > > Telegram I would be much more in favor of that. Though, admittedly, > between > > Slack and Discord, and Zoom, and all of the other communication tools > that > > I'm forced to use if I want to be part of communities, I can't say I'd > be > > super excited about installing yet one more. > > > > It really bothers me that all of the popular communication tools are now > > walled gardens (email having fallen out of favor). I don't know what to > do > > about it. > > > > Nevertheless, my philosophical vote is to use a tool that > > > > * first and foremost *preserves *and *makes accessible* (i.e. > searchable) > > useful content > > * second aligns with the Linux philosophy to some degree (open, > available, > > CLI accessible) > > * promotes high signal to noise (i.e. more questions and answers than > > giphys and tweets) > > > > If it's possible to meet goal 0 by using some sort of bot plugin with > slack > > that creates a web page out of the history (just like the IRC bots of > old) > > I'm not terribly opposed to using Slack, but I prefer the community > ethos > > of discord. > > > > AJ ONeal > > > > /* > > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > > Don't fear the penguin. > > */ > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
