Hey Solarpunk people! I’m back to ask if you’d like to join our booklcub. We are a small community of readers, writers, and activists that is dedicated to exploring Solarpunk and adjacent literature. Every week, we discuss one chapter of a book that we choose together. So far, we have read eight books, including The Dispossessed, the Monk and Robot series and a few short story collections. If you want to join our book club just in time to pick our next read, please swing by. We’d be happy to have more people to share thoughts and insights with!
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Sounds awesome - thanks for the invite! It would be cool to have this on Bookwyrm or even Lemmy
Yeah, I’d be interested too, but I’m not interest in feeding useful information into another corporate-controlled walled garden. Especially not solarpunk content, that should be antithetical to the basic idea…
Lemmy would be good for coordinating it, but it definitely makes sense to share reviews on bookwyrm.
Hosting chats of the books on XMPP could be another option, which would allow for group calls as well (which I think they do).
Right we’d be interested in switching to something that is more in line with Solarpunk ideals as well but the main way of communicating is a weekly group call, so that functionality would need to exist on the Plattform we switch to. I’ll look into XMPP
Should mention that Slrpnk.net hosts an XMPP instance which any Slrpnk member can access using their existing slrpnk lemmy login. You can access it via our Movim instance in the browser, or from any other XMPP client :D
I believe you should be able to create a room there that other people could connect to.
It’s different from Discord in that you can’t have a whole server with various different categories and rooms, though. It just has individual group chats (possible create multiple group chats of different subjects).
If having a single big server with different rooms is needed, I think Element (Matrix protocol) can do that.
Does anyone in the group selfhost? I just installed Jitsi Meet (which is like zoom) on my server and it sounds like that could work for you. I’ve only just tested it out and haven’t had any big calls on it yet but it seems great. How many people usually join the weekly call?
Interested, but not on discord, which is like the opposite of solarpunk. Bookwyrm would be cool, though, or lemmy/kbin/etc
