In order to try out Multi-User chat in #Gajim, I looked for lists of popular Public "Group Chats". I came across "The top 25 public chat rooms on the Jabber network": https://search.jabber.network/channels/1
The fullest groups seem to be the support groups for XMPP clients/servers like Gajim, #Conversations, and #Prosody. You might scoff I even tried these out, but _it was a start_, especially to try the "Joining" and "Leaving" process. *These activities - especially the very simple and quick "Leaving" process - are a non-trivial ability these days, in a world where closing accounts is about as easy as escaping an alligator.* They worked fine. No problems.
There's a huge number of people panicking about how sketchy ("enshittified"; fraught with "proprietary lock-in") all the popular online services have become. How about make your own Public Group chats, for any and all of the #Facebook groups, #WhatsApp Groups, and #Discord "servers" you are part of, and thereby try to gradually provide/advocate an "out"? Maybe even mirror the announcements from the more popular groups into your own Public Chat groups.
How about take on some leadership, if only as a form of action and protest, offering an alternative, and thereby *making a statement that a federated alternative indeed exists*? You might not be taken seriously at first, but if people are indeed *upset enough*, maybe your protest might actually catch on?
#XMPP #SocialMedia #enshittification #fediverse
Bhante Subharo /
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