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@abeorch in which case it would be Fediverse server wide?

Let's hope someone comes up with a clever hack to mod robots.txt based on hashtags or something. I have #searchable in my profile and I love how my posts for #AllAngelsJazzBand are amplified in Google by other servers Global pages (way better than IG) but if rather my content stays mine, not belligerently resold as robo-gary

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@nigel @andrewt @steve@nexusuk.org @Foritus@co.uk @neil@co.uk

Timeline transfer is a stupid idea

At least the claws are out. Thanks for telling me I'm stupid. I'll keep that in mind.

Make a blog post.

I'm old enough to remember when this was on advogato and it was called "microblogging" thank you very much.

I have tagged my profile #searchable because my approach to social media is microblogging, and I generally try to put thought into what I post.

The fact that you think I'm stupid for doing this is unlikely to change my opinion.

Now, for at least some of my threads, I do collect them in edited form. Then I often share links to that edited form here. It's rarely on my nominal blog these days; far more likely to be a forum, but I'm not here to argue semantics.

Your arrogant demands are unlikely to change my behavior.

@drewdevault Using #Discord for any serious communication should disqalify the projects and those using it from being taken serious in #FLOSS development at all.

At least with #Mailinglists and #IRC we had the latter problem solved, and whilst a lot of people criticize #GitHub for all the valid reasons, one does not need to have a GitHub account to merely read issues and access documentation published there.

Not to mention Discord has a shitload ob absurd and archaic limitations that have no reason to exist, so even if one were okay with using that garbage #SaaS they'd inevitably run into the limit of "#Servers" [or rather #Instances] they can actually access at the same time VERY QUICKLY...

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@grahamperrin if your org can be improved by garbage like #MicrosoftTeams, then that means there was previously not a good way to get hold of anyone nor get people to take ownership of projects or organize effectively.

  • It says more about said organization than the tech, because it must've been an utter shitshow before...

So I imagine stuff to be way better if it were to use @nextcloud / #Nextcloud to fully organize everything or even just @zulip / #Zulip for effective #Chat that is actually #searchable and not an unstable mess that can't be used on narrowband connections at all...

Also what you described is called #WebRTC, A standard even #JitsiMeet as #FLOSS & #SelfHosting-capable option or even #WebCall of all things does employ.

  • #Teams and #Zoom are just the shittiest implementations and unlike #WebEx don't even have the saving grave of delivering super-crisp high-res video for what they cost...
ZulipWhy Zulip? Efficient communication with organized team chat.Make better decisions, faster with chat that’s organized right. Follow the discussions that matter to you, easily and efficiently, in real time or asynchronously.

My latest favorite online tool is #PDF file regeneration with #OCR.

Utilizing these tools I can screenshot some presentation, put those images into one PDF, run it through the service and download a #searchable PDF.

I have no idea what is the business model (my content is no secret) but tools.pdf24.org/en/ocr-pdf fulfills my niche need.

PDF24 ToolsPDF OCR - Recognize text - easily, online, freeFree online tool to recognize text in documents via OCR. Creates searchable PDF files. Many options. Without installation. Without registration.
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@joshb @EposVox EXACTLY THAT!

#Discord is worse than #Mailingists, #IRC and #Forums combined because those - like #GitHub #Issues or any other public site & server - can at least be #crawled and #archived in a #searchable fashion.

Whereas Discord is peak #Enshittification and not only #AntiAccessibility but also the worst kind of communication solution, as there isn't even any option to export stuff from within it - something even #Slack & #MicrosoftTeams can do [#Zulip has been able to do that from the start]...

Discord is a bad and wrong excuse not to provide #public documentation and/or downloads.

#GithubPages is free & #DDoS-protected #Webhosting and for fast downloads on the cheap, #BitTorrent exists for almost two decades now...