On Wed, 2022-11-30 at 09:47 +0000, Barry Scott wrote:
> I don't do social media. I won't start now. I refuse to
be the
> product
> on a private platform.
Its not social media. Its discourse that is open source.
Python and fedora already have discourse servers up and working.
discuss.python.org and
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/
Personally I find them easy to use and better then email mainly
because i can use markup to format code and other text.
That's your choice of course. And certainly markup can be useful in
some contexts, but good MUAs do support it as well, either as HTML
(frowned upon here of course) or as Markdown (which Evolution now
supports).
I don't dispute that Discourse is free software. I do question its
usefulness as a *replacement* for mailing lists. It does have a
mailing-list mode, which in my limited experience is genuinely
terrible, to the extent that I find I have to open a browser to read
its messages in context.
There are other things I could say about it, but I'm afraid I've
dragged this thread rather off-topic.
poc