@nonlinear thankfully people have been working to preserve the inactive groups:
https://www.k5qo.com/yahoo_groups/
Something free software based would be better than groups.io but as long as it's in email form it can be preserved.
good post about how nerd communities' mass-adoption of the closed and proprietary Discord platform will inevitably lead to the long-term loss of (or loss of access to) mountains of special-interest group knowledge and community history
"TLDR; It is not a very future-proof way of knowledge-building & archiving at all."
@nonlinear your last few boosts are near and dear to me - I was worried about several amateur radio lists with the shutdown of Yahoo groups but most seem to have moved to groups.io. I don't want Slack or Discord anywhere near information that matters
@corbin FairEmail on F-Droid is the best mail client I've found. Nice interface and gets updates almost every day
@drtelnet my gopherhole (link on my profile) has more info on rss2email if you're interested
@drtelnet shit somehow I only just saw this question...my bad. I use rss2email and mutt if I'm on the command line, FairEmail (check it out on F-Droid) on my phone
New PagedOut zine is available!
@vertigo love system76 but the thing that always stops me from using bsd on a personal laptop is lack of 802.11ac WiFi support. Where I live 2.4ghz is so saturated it's unusable
@solderpunk 50 columns looks good for me on DiggieDog on a OnePlus 6T