[ripe-list] The Future of Discussion Lists

Am 26.05.23 um 14:11 schrieb Alex Band:

> I guess it’s no surprise that none of the younger generation, or people who do not like email (style) communications, are here to say that they prefer something else instead. They’re all on on Discord servers like DisNOG, BGPeople, or the RPKI Community server talking to like-minded people, solving problems and having a good time.

Discord is the worst solution as it is a closed platform which can't be 
accessed without an account and is not searchable. I can use google to 
search through mailing list archives within a second. Discord is a dark 
net – where no search machine can ever find any content.

> I would really hope we can at least get beyond the point of acknowledging that mailing lists are not for everyone. But even then, we can do a ton of research looking of the holy grail of platforms that is open source, decentralised, publicly archived, freely available, has favourable Terms and Conditions, and what have you. There’s a good chance there’s always going to be some solution that someone doesn’t like, ultimately leading to no action being taken.

Matrix exists. It has an easy interface, many clients for all the 
platforms out there and be self hosted. There is simply no need for a 
closed platform.


> My suggestion: keep the mailing lists as is for the people who prefer that, and add Discord to the mix.

My suggestion: Keep the mailing lists as is and add a selft hosted 
Matrix server. All the Matrix content could then be easily exported into 
a search machine.