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Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.
From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:14:24 +0200
On 3/24/21 17:08, Phineas wrote:
Chiming in as a somewhat-younger network engineer here (19) - I think that Discord should be more widely considered and approved as an option across the board here. I’m active on mailing lists, and while they work, at the end of the day I’d much rather be using an app like Discord, and I know this is true for a lot of the next generation of net engineers.The costs (main one is federation/lock-in?) outweigh the benefits entirely:- Clear and organized channels of communication - Threads (coming soon, which will help a lot for communities like NANOG) - Moderation bots- Roles that allow people interested in certain topics to join the channels they care aboutIn terms of platform lock-in; I know some of the higher up team there pretty well and I know they’d welcome us with open arms and be happy to answer any questions or solve issues we’re having. There are also bots that allow you to export entire channel histories live or for archive.
As much as my life would be over the day this happens, I completely accept that this is where it has to go, if we want to engage with the up & coming blood.
Ultimately, our main interest is to keep this thing going, long after we've all ran through the vineyards on our way to eternity :-).
Mark.
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- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions., (continued)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Karl Auer (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Cynthia Revström via NANOG (Mar 22)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Eric Kuhnke (Mar 23)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Matthew Pounsett (Mar 23)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Mark Tinka (Mar 23)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Cynthia Revström via NANOG (Mar 23)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Mark Tinka (Mar 23)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Sec Lists (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Robert Kisteleki (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Phineas (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Mark Tinka (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Tom Beecher (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Mark Tinka (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Mark Tinka (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. james.cutler () consultant com (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Mark Tinka (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Seth Mattinen (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Mark Tinka (Mar 24)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail) (Mar 25)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Allen McKinley Kitchen (gmail) (Mar 25)
- Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions. Mark Tinka (Mar 25)