Re: Fediverse newsgroup

Nuno Silva <[email protected]> wrote:
>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.)

What are you talking about? Groups with similar names ALREADY exist in
comp.*. I'm saying DON'T name it into alt.* with an "infosystems"
third-level hierarchy as that does not currently exist.

>>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.

That is the key information the proponent should discover as part of the
proposal process.

>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