[M4A] Furry Fediverse Chat - I'm looking for furry sysadmins and devs who love the fediverse to create a Telegram or Matrix group for support, projects, ideas, etc...

trips, 10 months ago

It would give me a reason to join matrix which is a platform that I want to get used to in case I need to migrate my discord server to it.

varikvalefor, 10 months ago

.i la .varik. cu se cinri… je ku’i cu tolnei lo skami .i la .varik. cu pilno la’oi .Matrix. jenai la’oi .Telegram.

VARIK is interested… and dislikes computers. VARIK uses Matrix and not Telegram.

purringfox, 10 months ago

I like that idea.

Are we talking about a big open group where unlimited people can join. If so wouldn’t that make more sense as a community on this (or other furry) instances? Because at one critical count of members one chat channel would turn out to be very confusing, since many topics would be discussed at once.

Or are you talking about a more private one, where you are searching for members?

I either case I would love to join.
I study informatics and do parttime frontend and backend web-development. One of my hobbies is “self-hosting”, which means I have some knowledge with sysadmin stuff. Only my knowledge in the fediverse is lacking at the moment, but I’m on it.

Wander, 10 months ago

I was thinking of a semi-private group actually. Public access, but nothing massive. The idea is that we could also make friends in there as we hang out and discuss fedi related topics.

purringfox, 10 months ago

Nothing speaks against just trying. If too little people join the chat can be deleted at any time again.

Since you are aiming for tech people, a matrix group would make sense. Also it is well integrated with lemmy. When you add your matrix address in the profile it enables the “secure message” button.
One downside with Matrix seems to be, that you cannot create an invite link, you either have it public (and then it is visible for all people on the matrix instance) or private (invite via username). I would opt for a DM for invite method. Similar how registering to this instance works. We could announce that in this community.

Feel free to DM me, if you want to discus that further!

vatril, 10 months ago

I think this is interesting, but feel this could end up being a bit of a weird group, especially with very mixed skill levels.

Personally I enjoy helping beginners since it’s a fun field and I like to encourage more people to get into it, but I feel it might end up being quite one sided.

This doesn’t mean it’s a bad idea, I just might not be super successful.

I myself am a professional dev I think and do also a lot of things that fall under the sysadmin umbrella.