Community Announcements - Matrix, Fosstodon and Lemmy
By Ribbon on
This post will cover the important changes for community on this year.
Matrix
It was decided that Matrix will be our permanent way for communication.
Since January the Redox project was testing Matrix as the new platform for community/development communication, Jeremy Soller migrated to Matrix because of its maturity and popularity.
A Matrix space for Redox was created with some rooms, more were added over time, you can see the current state below:
- #redox-join:matrix.org - a room to be invited to the Redox space.
- #redox-general:matrix.org - a room for Redox-related discussions (questions, suggestions, porting, etc).
- #redox-dev:matrix.org - a room for development, here you can talk about anything development-related (code, proposals, achievements, styling, bugs, etc).
- #redox-support:matrix.org - a room for testing/building support (problems, errors, questions).
- #redox-mrs:matrix.org - a room to cover all ready merge requests without conflicts (if you have a ready MR to merge, send there).
- #redox-board:matrix.org - a room for Board of Directors meetings.
- #redox-voip:matrix.org - a room for voice/video calls.
- #redox-random:matrix.org - a room for off-topic.
Jeremy decided to use the Rust Code Of Conduct as rules for the rooms.
The Redox space is invite-only, every new member must join the “Join Requests” room and request an invite to the Redox space.
Only members of the Redox space can see/join the rooms.
(This system satisfy our needs properly)
The power of all moderators is limited and a room for moderators is available, we discuss moderation-related issues there.
If we have problems with the matrix.org instance, probably we can host one using the Synapse server (the same of matrix.org) because of its maturity.
Conduit is a Matrix server is written in Rust but is not ready for production use yet.
Fosstodon
Fosstodon is an alternative for Twitter, we have more control over our content there.
We plan to migrate the userbase of Twitter to Fosstodon.
Lemmy
Lemmy is an FOSS alternative to Reddit, we have more control over our content there.
We plan to migrate the userbase of Reddit to Lemmy.