Re: [opennic-discuss] Discord?

Sebastian Makowiecki <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.opennic.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
The key word is 'open', any kind of closed environment 'should be' out 
of the question.

~
Sebastian Makowiecki

On Mon, 9 Jul, 2018 at 8:28 PM, kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
> See, THIS makes much more sense.
> 
> I have a tech I made that uses MQTT.  I can pass all message traffic 
> in
> what ever way I want, including transparently.  If I want to pass
> traffic to an IRC channel, I could pass things by way of email, social
> media, or some custom chat software.  It makes sense to investigate a
> way that all public conversations use some similar type of open
> technology to pass info between communications channels as an
> aggregator or bridge between communication channels.
> 
> This type of methodology of communication distribution and 
> disbursement
> can be set up as a distributed system so no single host can control
> conversation, yet shared filters can be implemented to kill spam or
> assign roles of "authority" such as moderators.
> 
> That's something I could investigate.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> On Mon, 2018-07-09 at 14:50 -0400, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
>>  There is one thing which might be bad about using Discord only.
>>  Discord allows the main admin (Jonah) to delete others' messages, 
>> and
>>  the main admin can create "roles" and assign them abilities,
>>  including to edit and delete messages.
>> 
>>  I run my own publicly-listed Discord, and when your Discord is
>>  publicly listed in directories you're bound to attract spammers,
>>  usually you set up a bot (like Sweetiebot) to assign spammers the
>>  "silence" role and then I or others in the "staff" role can delete
>>  the messages.
>> 
>>  Additionally, you often have spammers spam you with PMs, and then
>>  when you report it to the Discord they're in, they deny it and 
>> delete
>>  the spam PM.
>> 
>>  So Fusl might be right about having everything official done on IRC,
>>  and considering a bridge as I investigated (Jonah suggested it might
>>  be best to have a separate Discord channel for the bridge)
>> 
>>  --
>> 
>>  -Dan Q
>> 
>> 
>>  On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 14:09:29 -0400 (EDT), "Daniel Quintiliani" 
>> <danq@
>>  runbox.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  >
>>  > There are bots which enable communication between Discord and IRC.
>>  > None of us are familiar with them yet though, and Fusl said she
>>  > wanted to keep the Discord hidden from anything official. But it's
>>  > worth looking at.
>>  >
>>  > https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc
>>  >
>>  > --
>>  >
>>  > -Dan Q
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 01:17:16 -0500, kevin <[email protected]>
>>  > wrote:
>>  >
>>  > >
>>  > > More bandwidth does not make for more clear conversation.  I
>>  > > specifically still use text only email for reasons that make
>>  > > perfect
>>  > > sense to me and are most effective for me.  I DO NOT want HTML
>>  > > and
>>  > > other crap in my email and I DO NOT like animated graphics in my
>>  > > social
>>  > > media feeds.
>>  > >
>>  >
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