Re: Fediverse newsgroup

On 2024-06-09, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

> lkh <[email protected]> wrote:
>>Kyonshi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>I was thinking it might be good to have a group for discussions of the 
>>>fediverse (mastodon, pixelfed, et. al.) that is not on the fediverse 
>>>itself.
>
>>>I was thinking about alt.comp.infosystems.fediverse
>
>>I second that! Although just calling it alt.fediverse might even 
>>work better.
>
> There is no need for a new second-level hierarchy. Let it be named to
> fit in with similar newsgroups.
>
> Although now that I look, comp.infosystems.* is a thing, but
> alt.comp.infosystems.* is not. Proposed alt.* groups shouldn't be named
> to skip a hierarchy level.

(Please don't leave out the ".comp.infosystems." part, otherwise that'd
make it a poor fit in a hierarchy that has a lot of groups, plus,
there'll certainly be other infosystem-related groups.)

> If that's the name Kyonshi wants, then put it into the Big 8.
>
>>Is it a good idea to write a more formal proposal?
>>See for for example the message Re: 
>>"New group proposal: alt.os.cpv" on this newsgroup, 
>>Message-ID: <[email protected]>.
>
> Of course there should be a proposal in good form.
>
> I think it would be a good idea for the proponent to look carefully at
> where the discussion of Fediverse is taking place and to count it. As
> always, we're looking for an average of 10 articles a day over a recent
> 90-day period, articles that people write themselves and hopefully start
> threads, not reposted from the Web. Too few articles a day, the group
> will be a spamtrap and there won't be enough sustainable discussion.

I don't know if I've asked about this before, but: in which other groups
are such discussions happening right now? I might try to follow one or
two.

Maybe to help keep this topic (eventually creating a USENET group) in
"one place" on the fediverse too, if anyone else is going to comment on
this there, please consider trying to thread it under Kyonshi's Mastodon
post [1], if your fediverse medium supports some sort of threading
relative to Mastodon posts.

[1] https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/112213176617773138

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Nuno Silva