30 May
2023
30 May
'23
5 p.m.
On Tue, 2023-05-30 at 12:21 +0000, Jim Brand wrote:
There are those of us that live in distant timezones, where a real- time comms/chatting tool would be of minimal value, and might have the effect of removing us from the conversation. I think you may also find that those tools may not be available or accessible in secured work environments such as the one I am in.
I am only half joking when I say that this is just screaming for the reinvention of Usenet: open, distributed, low barrier, can interface to various other media (e.g. email)... Yes, there are flaws wrt. moderation and (sender) verification, but with some federated authentication and careful feed distribution, I think this can actually work. Cheers, Steven