An IRC server lets you chat about the course, and study together in alternate channels. I’d go with that. I don’t really do “realtime video” (I think it’s dumb) but everything else should work.
Desperately lonely wannabe activist in #hillsboro near #Portland in the Pacific Northwest. (#PDX))
Always looking for ways to meet with people who live nearby so we can organize our community. Not… succeeding for 20 years is kind of discouraging.
#stories #writer #lonely #adhd #ponies #mlp #cryptography #idk #help
An IRC server lets you chat about the course, and study together in alternate channels. I’d go with that. I don’t really do “realtime video” (I think it’s dumb) but everything else should work.
We have instancewide admin blocks, so the accounts that would be automatically reported can be blocked preemptively, no report needed. That can be both good and bad… but pick a sheltered instance and you shouldn’t get harassed. How would automatic reporting even work? I don’t recall, but doesn’t the admin interface let you specify keywords that alert the admins in a post? Is that what you mean?
Saints be praised for that…
I like the “book 5 | pdf: 37” part it makes it look like you’re quoting the Bible.
@bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works @stinerman@midwest.social Every time I hear someone saying people are afraid of change, I always suspect they’re just butthurt because they get inordinate benefit from that change. People actually love change, and enthusiastically embrace it, when it’s a change for the better. Nobody is afraid to unwrap their birthday presents! People aren’t afraid of change; they’re afraid of marketing bullshitting them, of charlatans with yet another form of exploitation who are all whining in chorus about how much people fear change.
So… don’t worry about being reluctant to take risks, I say. It might be irrational, but it also might not be wrong. Try to do what’s best for you. If vaccines are less risky than covid, then you’ll fear them less than covid, assuming these vaccines even prevent covid in the first place. If I want to convince you to take a vaccine, it’s on me to give you the power to determine for yourself whether I’m full of shit. Just demonizing you as a redneck luddite and blaming you for making people sick isn’t going to accomplish anything.
XMPP is good for private conversations. Their group chat support, while absolutely on par with IRC, doesn’t really work without some DNS shenanigans. I don’t have to purchase conference.fedicy.us.to in order to have an IRC server.
XMPP is very federated, so any jabber account on any server can join a group chat on a particular server, but that’s not really an advantage to a private group, that wouldn’t be allowing other servers in the first place.
Sooo that’s why I recommend IRC.
CC: @AnAutieAtUni@beige.party