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Full History - 2022 - 02 - 10 - ID#spgell
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Chat groups? (self.Blind)
submitted by DHamlinMusic
So having seen the many previous posts regarding discord groups and the like I am wondering if any of those ever got off the ground, or if there is anything similar currently active in existence. I have seen that the subreddit has an IRC channel but I have not had any luck getting into it, and I have not used IRC in a long time so I don't currently have any apps I'm familiar with to use for that.
Emmenias 3 points 1y ago
Over on the Discord side, I am not familiar with any general blindness servers that are still thriving. Well, there may be one, but it is a hellhole ... and VIP Lounge, while still around, was quite inactive last time I checked.

However, there are more specialised places that are doing quite well. The Knights of The Braille community, for playing tabletop RPGs, is so active I have to mute it sometimes to have less clutter in my unread messages, haha. There is an Audio Game Dev server, run by Talon the Dragon, which is decently active and should pick up more once the next No Video Jam starts. The servers of the streamers I follow, PG13 and Liam Erven, are also doing well — and that's despite the fact PG13 haven't streamed anything in far too long!
If you need invites to any of those, let me know.

If you'd like to get into social media, there is also a Mastodon instance run by Talon and myself (Mayana), which you can find here:
https://DragonsCave.space
It is not limited to blind people only, nor are all the people on Mastodon on it. But there's quite a few of us, mixed in with the rest of the population. Which is probably for the best, honestly; I've always found blind-only communities to be pretty limiting.
rumster 2 points 1y ago
Would it be worth creating a Discord group? Blind Gamers Discord is really big if you want to check it out.

https://discord.gg/xcyZDMeG
DHamlinMusic [OP] 1 points 1y ago
I mean I would say it might be something worth looking into, though probably something that should be put to a vote to the community. I know in the last year discord has become significantly more accessible, and it's available on pretty much every operating system at this point so there's no access limit to it really.
retrolental_morose 2 points 1y ago
I miss IRC, but its been a long time.
rumster 1 points 1y ago
Hey you use discord? Help us build out? https://discord.gg/McSS97cU

Let me know
retrolental_morose 1 points 1y ago
I haven't. Perhaps it is time to add it in. My circle is already pretty fractured between Whatsapp, Signal, Telegram etc.
is there a particular desktop flavour of Discord that's happiest with NVDA?
Beneficial-Durian-44 1 points 1y ago
I still want to start one but I don't have anybody to help run it sadly,
DHamlinMusic [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Check the reply that the guy who created the submade further down as he's now set up one for the sub.
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