The mutual aid groups and Marxist societies I've been involved in have all been organised through FB groups and it works well, but feels Bad having it on FB. I could see Discord working to some extent, but it is no where near as accessible as FB. Thoughts?
Edit: @ cadence I know Discord Bad :P
I can’t think of any worse way to organise than discord lol, fuck checking back through 1,000 messages every time you open your phone
yeah I think the only sane way to do it would be to have an announcement channels for each type of activity and then have chats for specific things, but it would be so forced and there'd have to be so many rules about what could be posted where etc. I feel like one of the Slack alternatives that are more thread based like Twist make slightly more sense, but the FB Group format is still
kingthe peoples choiceI remember when Earth Strike kicked off it was all on Discord. It was an absolute nightmare that taught me a lot about online organizing.
when's the last time someone under 30 joined a mailing list?
In my experience with mailing lists that are majority under 30; the email open rates are higher than facebook engagement, only beaten by sms.
my co-op uses a mailing list and they are stupid simple and really effective, I think this is a good alt even if it's not sexy
Internet Relay Chat
Yes, I am a fossil. I still think IRC is the best comms tool. It would still suffer from the scroll back thing others were talking about using other similar type tools.
You could probably mitigate that by a dedicated room with only certain people able to post that has important info or some sort of custom IRC bot.
Any thoughts on Matrix? (which Mozilla is switching to from IRC)
Real life.
OK maybe not now with covid and all, but generally it trumps online shit. But yeah FB helps.
