Notices by In #Flancia we'll meet (flancian@social.coop)

This is now done, the instance should feel snappier again :D

Please let us know if you notice any issues!

@cwebber not at all, this facilitated improvements ;) two web workers was too few, I wouldn't be surprised if this helped also at closer to baseline levels of traffic (and for sure during any future excursions).

#SocialCoop will be down shortly as we perform some quick maintenance.

@icedquinn oh! What's wrong with hachyderm? I'm not aware of anything.

Great thread about the [[fuel rats]], a pro-social faction within the game Elite. I have never played it but I still found it an Interesting read:

https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/113465421567555186

@jwz @geoglyphentropy haha touché! And I love the dude and his crew of course.

I know what you mean, don't get me wrong. I am myself mildly uncomfortable being the random guy who ends up potentially defending a group which includes some douchebags. But that's what you sign up to do when you defend any diverse group I guess, and I think there's enough "good members" to try to reclaim EA from its worse associates.

TLDR: this is human group, members are spread across many distributions, etc.

@geoglyphentropy @jwz I think that when it fails completely it is neither; when it fails partially it is altruism; and when it succeeds it is both :)

@ntnsndr @edumerco @CaitlinWaddick @Matt_Noyes @mattcropp @ktoddbrown @emi hi all! Just catching up here after the workweek, it seems I missed this but it sounded very cool -- how was it? Were there notes?

@jwz not great with some of the people funding, true, but Effective Altruism has a solid core IMHO despite character flaws of individual members -- and I know some of the people making Bluesky and they seem well-aligned to me.

I think it's fair to treat it as a soon-to-be-truly-federated network (hopefully) and say: there'll be nazis occasionally, like there are in the Fediverse, and we will push back against them as needed as always.

What are the best [[Amazon alternatives]] you know?

I'll start: for ebooks and ereaders, I've made the jump to [[Kobo]] and I'm very happy with the result: https://kobo.com.

I took the following AI in the OC meeting: "start a thread or book a meeting to discuss next steps in the messaging space per-WG and cross-WG".

@edumerco @edsu @sam @Matt_Noyes I think you are interested in this topic :) would you like to start by discussing here? I can also start a time slot picking process to meet and discuss synchronously.

Also, anyone else that you think would be interested?

@edumerco @sam @edsu @Matt_Noyes @mako @ntnsndr @dazinism thank you all for your interest and participation!

Ideally I think we could pursue the following using the fact that one of our VPSes is under-utilized currently:

- Install some or all of: a lightweight Matrix server (e.g. conduit), an XMPP server (something prosody adjacent?), a Zulip instance.
- Share test credentials with people in the working groups and gather feedback/see what catches on and productionize that?

@edumerco @sam @edsu @Matt_Noyes @mako @ntnsndr @dazinism on the topic of what the goal would be, I think the ideal outcome is we offer an extra service to the community *with the initial warning that it might have a worse SLO than the mastodon instance*, meaning they shouldn't rely on it for anything critical yet. Then we see how expensive it is to run and we vote as a community on running it or not?

@edumerco @sam @edsu @Matt_Noyes @mako @ntnsndr @dazinism of course it is the working groups that need this the most I believe, but I think if we run an instance at all we should try to make it useful to all the community, because why not? :)

@edumerco @sam @edsu @Matt_Noyes @mako @ntnsndr @dazinism from all the options, I still believe Matrix is the most future looking and the platform where most of our members *already have accounts*; but I'm OK being swayed by data and other proposals, and don't get me wrong: I liked Zulip a lot when I used it, and I used to help run XMPP for Google and loved it back then.

@Matt_Noyes @derek @dphiffer Dan drove it for the first time, Calix and I cheered on! :D

@3wordchant (side note: Mastodon on mobile has a bug, seems unable to auto complete usernames starting with a number!)

@ntnsndr thank you Nathan! Have a great weekend!

@ntnsndr thank you, yes, if you share with @flancian:matrix.org I'll share forward; I need to check who else from the CWG wants to take it on.

@ntnsndr ahoy! would you be open to sharing admin rights for the social.coop matrix space with at least one TWG and one CWG member (my suggestion)?

We're considering creating some new rooms and this would help keep things organized :)

Thank you!

@icedquinn this sent me in a wikipedia rabbit hole for molten salt, thanks :)

btw 'molten salt reactor' is sulasuolareaktori in Finnish