On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 09:47:12PM +0000, Andy Smith via BitFolk Users wrote:
 More generally about social media:

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 Finally, you are probably all aware, but we do have an official IRC
 channel on Libera:
 irc://irc.libera.chat:6697/BitFolk

Oh, and the IRC channel is kind of dying (been in existence the
whole time BitFolk has, probably peaked around 70 users, 50 in there
now but maybe only 40 of them are human, very little actual
interaction compared to several years ago).

I don't know whether this is a general lack of interest in chat in
the bitfolk user community, or if it is a reflection of declining
popularity of IRC. If the former then there's little to be done,
but if it's the latter then I'd be open to exploring different
protocols.

I had a look at Discord but couldn't really get my head around it.
If there's some experienced Discord user who thinks a BitFolk
Discord would have a user base, I'm open to endorsing it on a
similar basis to the Reddit thing.

Is there some other protocol that people use for IRC-like things? I
would have to give a hard No to Slack, but I'm interested in hearing
about other things.

Cheers,
Andy