On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 6:03 PM Ryan Grant via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 2:47 AM Buck O Perley via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> First just wanted to thank you
for taking the initiative to
> put this together. I think that as the community and
> ecosystem continue to grow, it's going to be an important
> part of the process to have groups like this develop. Hopefully
> they allow us to resist the "Tyranny of Structurelessness" without
> resorting to formalized governance processes and systems.

Huh, lots of reading material behind that phrase.  I'd heard it
before, but hadn't looked it up.

> > Defining a communication channel is still an open question: IRC, Slack,
> Discord, Discourse, ...
>
> I would vote against Slack. IRC is probably the best but maybe too
> high a barrier to entry? Publishing logs at least would counter
> concerns of it being exclusive. Maybe discord as an alternative.

I found Discord immediately wanted a phone number from me.  I think
IRC remains the lowest bar for participants to contribute.


Agreed, anything that requires a phone number makes it difficult to be pseudonymous.

I recommend Matrix, since it doesn't require any privacy invasive information and has e2ee by default for 1-1 conversations.

The Matrix room could optionally bridge to IRC if there is a significant demand for that.