the lindy effect for email is particularly strong in some communities. NANOG seems to be one of them. i would put a plug in for the NANOG discord - it's sporadically useful and entertaining, and yes it too suffers from the walled garden issues some of which will i see will be flogged in a different fork of this thread. the discord is particularly interesting during the conferences and provides some opportunity for fun integrations. i'm hopeful that NANOG can keep that rolling between the meetings. that said, i fear that discord will pull a slack on us in the not too distant future. then poof we won't even be able scroll back in our message history without paying for access to our blather and code snippets. we and our communities (NetEng, automation and protocol engineering) would do well to find something that was open and facilitated cross pollination and carried low switching costs. we seem to be persistently foot-gunning ourselves on this front. it would be nice to see more #NANOG or #networking on mastodon. -- steve ulrich (sulrich@botwerks.*)
On Aug 20, 2025, at 19:49, Mark Prosser via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
On 2025-08-20 20:45, Andrew Latham wrote:
"Get off my lawn!" :P * Direct chat with peers * Mailing Lists I avoid walled gardens like discord. I do miss Google+ where I could make my posts globally visible without any ads. Used to run "The Backbone Of The Internet" group there.
:P
You're definitely not wrong to avoid the walled gardens.
I gave Google+ a try a long time ago but I never really explored the groups.
I guess I forgot to mention I'm on Mastodon & Bluesky. I prefer the former, but there isn't much NetEng talk going on there.
Warm regards,
-- Mark Prosser // E: mark@zealnetworks.ca // W: https://zealnetworks.ca _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/nanog@lists.nanog.org/message/G52NVJU6...