We normally do voice only calls of around 15 people max, so I think finding just a platform for that wouldn’t be that big of a problem. But it would be great if announcements and text communication in-between the calls could also happen on the platform, it’s already not easy to get people to attend regularly so I don’t want to put too many hurdles in their way, doesn’t really serve anyone if we have the perfect solution but nobody shows up anymore…I’ve been looking at Revolt as a true discord replacement and I could see ourselves realistically switching without losing too many people once the mobile apps are out of early access. But that’s for the group to decide.

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

Our last few books have been fiction, but nonfiction is totally on the table if it can get the majority of the vote.

Depends on the book, if something is freely available we’ll provide links, otherwise we encourage library use and let everyone decide for themselves where they stand on piracy vs. buying the books.

We take it pretty leisurely, we’ve mostly done a chapter a week, sometimes two. We found that there’s always enough to discuss if you go deep enough on a given topic.