Just a reminder that meta.lisp.community is a new Lisp discussion forum about various classic and modern dialects. A community-run asynchronous discussion board is a great resource for those who prefer forums over chat or proprietary platforms.
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@amoroso Thanks for this.
I've been missing the old Lispforum, and I'm no longer an IRC kind of person, so this is great news.
@amoroso Thanks for sharing. Hope this forum gets some traction as Reddit is turning worse as the years go by.
@met You're welcome. I'm doing all I can to help the forum as I no longer want to to contribute to proprietary or closed platforms.
@amoroso @met unfortunately the forum looks like random initiative with a bus factor 1. see https://metalisp.dev
@symbolics Well, we don't have much control over Reddit either.
@amoroso @met well their business model is at the core to host communities. I’m using it since it started ca. 2005. Not sure if they want to leave that business soon - I haven’t heard it.
Before I was using mailing lists (which still exist as a technology), Usenet and other stuff.
I’d rather not use a one-man privately hosted forum, where I have no idea how long the thing will exist (I also heard no commitment).
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@symbolics I'm not against businesses or paid products and services. But Reddit long crossed the critical mass beyond which I no longer feel comfortable handing my content or attention to them. I don't want to make such a large corporation even stronger as such huge companies tend to have a high enshittification factor and may turn (even more) user hostile at any time.
That's why I prefer community efforts, even with an unfavourable bus factor.
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Ideally it would be hosted/mediated through common-lisp.net; they have proven (despite some bumps) to be consistent stewards of the infrastructure, and would be able to assign new mods in case of a bus happening.
@jackdaniel The community just got started a month or so ago, so that may happen eventually.
@metalisp Any thoughts on this?
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