appear.in community

So first of all I’d like to notify the world that appear.in exists. It’s sort of like conference video calls, but you don’t have to arse about with programs and registration like you do with Hangouts or Skype - you just share a link to your, erm, “room” with whoever you want to chat with. You can also lock your room. It’s very intuitive and pretty.

But I’d also like to propose a fun idea, because up to eight people can use a room at a time, which means: public transient chatrooms. For context I need to ramble a bit.

I once heard of a Norwegian TV channel that broadcast a TV show that was just people knitting. It was reported as an “and finally, look at these silly Norwegians” thing, but

I love knitting, and I think that sounds really therapeutic!

So I would watch the hell out of it.

Also, I fill my days with cat, knitting, zine-making, and general crafting.

I quite like the idea of logging into an appear.in chatroom, muting my microphone so people can’t hear me singing along to whatever or swearing when I drop stitches, and just pointing the camera at whatever I’m doing. And maybe other people would do that too.

A little transient anonymous community, popping up whenever someone clicks the link.

So here’s some rooms I’d hang out in silently and craftily:

https://appear.in/crafts

https://appear.in/zines

https://appear.in/knitting

https://appear.in/cats (this one, people would just point their webcams at their cats, obviously)

https://appear.in/noiys

Today I will probably be hanging out in /zines. :)