[ExI] MAKE THE LIST (AND THE WORLD) GREAT AGAIN !!!

[Giulio Prisco]

Another nice and modern system is Discourse, used for example by BoingBoing:
https://bbs.boingboing.net/

It has an email interface so I believe it could support a two-way
bridge with Mailman (the mailing list software used here).

Anyone interested in doing a test?

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like Reddit (the system) a lot, but Reddit (the company) much less.
> They could decide to take down a subreddit if there are complaints by
> thought cops. But the Reddit software is open source, so it could be
> installed on a dedicated extropy server.
>
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 9:22 PM, Henrique Moraes Machado
> <cetico.iconoclasta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Facebook.. eeeew. Facebook's format is not conductive to discussion. Reddit
>> would be more suitable with its tree-like comments.
>>
>> Mastodon is getting a lot of hype these days, but I suspect it wouldn't be
>> good either.
>>
>>
>> On 23/06/2017 03:28, Giulio Prisco wrote:
>>>
>>> spike: "ExI was a big wild fun party where you could post pretty much
>>> anything."
>>>
>>> Yes. Specialty groups are needed to work out the details, but the big
>>> wild fun party is where you develop the ideas to be elaborated upon.
>>> Please don't tell me that we don't need big ideas. I agree with Thiel
>>> and Stephenson, we seem to have lost the ability interest to think and
>>> do big things.
>>>
>>> I changed the title to emphasize that.
>>>
>>> I suspect mailing lists just don't cut these days. Yes, Max said that
>>> this list must not become a Facebook group or something like that, and
>>> of course here Max is right by definition, but I wonder if some new
>>> format would help. Something with a very fast and easy interface, a
>>> dedicated phone app (a must these days)...
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 4:22 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On
>>>> Behalf Of Giulio Prisco
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 12:02 AM
>>>> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [ExI] test
>>>>
>>>>> ...The list is certainly alive, but it's going through one of those idle
>>>>> moments. I have been looking at the list archives of 20 years ago, in
>>>>> particular one very interesting thread I found doing some research (thoughts
>>>>> forthcoming), and yes, the list today is a ghost of what it used to be. I
>>>>> wonder whether that means mailing lists have irreversibly joined the
>>>>> graveyard of social media, or we could come up with creative ideas to reload
>>>>> the list...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chat groups have specialized in the past 20 yrs.  The notion of posting
>>>> actual sentences rather than tweeting about, what, 37 characters? is alive
>>>> and well.  There are plenty of topics you can't really cover in 37
>>>> characters.  I leave that to the politicians: I have notions that just
>>>> cannot fit in that space.
>>>>
>>>> Twenty yrs ago we used to spin off temporary subgroups, but ExI was a big
>>>> wild fun party where you could post pretty much anything.  Now these
>>>> specialty groups are permanent and have good focus.  I am in several of them
>>>> myself, specifically about stuff I want to know about.
>>>>
>>>> I am surprised no one is posting about that new Intel chip or the new
>>>> exos.  Perhaps fresh in my mind is the announcement of Kepler's first
>>>> findings, oh boy that was a toe curler.
>>>>
>>>> spike
>>>>
>>>>
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