Matt NoyesHow do I use a social.coop email address? It seems I can send an email to my [email protected], but where does it go?
David Mynors@Matt_Noyes I'm not sure, but I think full email (inbox) implementation would have been too complicated (or pricey?) so the addresses are currently only usable as forwarders to sign up for social.coop related stuff (like git.coop) - but don't quote me on that!
@idmyn Makes sense. Thanks
Wu-Lee@Matt_Noyes, @idmyn is right, it's free service allowing us to set forwarding aliases on the #SocialCoop domain, granted by #WebArchitects to allow us to manage our #GitCoop accounts. It isn't intended for full email accounts.
Our Mastodon notifications go out via a bulk mailing service, Mailgun. This is also not designed to manage full email accounts.
So far we've not needed anything more. Besides it's also good to keep things simple from an admin point of view - until we have more admins!
🌈 Nick Sellen 🌻@Matt_Noyes @wu_lee @idmyn seems wise to get the basic technical and social infrastructure solid first
@Matt_Noyes, it would need a good justification in terms of allowing us to able to fund people's time running it and everything else we're already committed to run. If it's just a convenience, then I'd say: not worth it.
@Matt_Noyes Perhaps once the basic social/tech infrastructure is in place we could set up some kind of feature priority list for things like this. Would both reassure people that their voices are heard and celebrate the requests that have been implemented, like the server migration (thank you @wu_lee @nicksellen !!!)
the sort of thing I'm envisaging: https://trello.com/b/9tcaMB4w/monzo-transparent-product-roadmap
@idmyn, I've never used trello, but GitLab issues are designed for creating priority lists like this, and can be grouped by milestone.
@wu_lee I had a feeling GitLab might be the answer haha
dazinism@idmyn @wu_lee @Matt_Noyes @nicksellen
I'd be very weary of offering more services. Especially anything that takes a fair bit of work looking after
I've got awareness of all the work it takes to keep Mastodon running.
I've spoken out against having a matrix/riot home server as they require lots of work
Email can also be a pain (stopping spammers, keeping the server off black lists etc.) and its often mission critical for people - its how most web services communicate and authenticate
@dazinism @idmyn @wu_lee @nicksellen
I should be more clear -- I am brainstorming, adding to a wishlist. I totally get that we are not in a position to take on new tech responsibilities and projects. It is very encouraging to see how the Tech WG is getting Social.Coop on firm footing and we need to focus on doing the same in our community-building efforts.
I am using #Taiga now, not really using it up to its potential but it seems useful.
@Matt_Noyes @wu_lee @idmyn my feeling would be more to work towards being a really great example of how to run a software service as a co-operative, and that could then inspire other people to run other services (pixelfed, etc) co-operatively.
rolling all the services into one co-op could increase the bureaucracy, and it seems it was already a bit overwhelming...