Public chat on the Castaneda discord server

General Knowledge u/AthinaJ8 2026-01-21 19:12 UTC 28 points

Since the sunsetting of the public chats on Reddit we have observed there is a demand for alternative chat options.

For that reason we are going to utilise the Castaneda discord server we already have.

Dan is available there in a channel that has his name and we are keeping the rooftop without him for a "cigarette break" in the general chat of the server.

Here is the invitation link: https://discord.gg/auHySqGN

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 10 points 2026-01-21 20:27

For those who might be confused by the rooftop analogy. During Castaneda‘s private classes held in the 1990’s, some of the students would go up to the roof either after classes, or during a break partway through, to smoke and most likely gossip about either individuals in classes or talk about what Carlos had just lectured on or instructed.

This separate space for partially off topic conversation was part of the reason why the Discord server was setup in the first place; and we felt that preserving that was important, while still giving people a chance to have a more on-topic conversational space with more experienced practitioners like Dan and Jade etc…. now that public chat channels are gone.

Ideally, we would’ve created a new chat group on this platform. But any newly created group has a maximum limit of 100 users, and we can’t be in a position when that 101st person asks to be admitted and we have to tell them it’s full.

So why even start that.

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u/ClothesFit7495 3 points 2026-01-21 23:52

You must verify your identity by phone before you can send messages in this server.

not cool

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u/AthinaJ8 3 points 2026-01-22 00:00

We are tinkering with security in the server because we started having spam texts but now it's set.

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u/East-Bed-9981 1 points 2026-01-24 00:30

You can also create a channel on Telegram, where there are no restrictions on the number of participants, and you can upload videos and files ranging from 2 to 4 gigabytes...you can create file archives and discussion threads there.

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u/TechnoMagical_Intent 2 points 2026-01-24 03:13

We have a telegram available for the invitation-only subreddit, but Discord seemed a better fit for the public subreddit.

We also looked at other options, but didn’t see any that seemed worth the gamble of time spent on design if the platform never got more users that it has now. Fediverse apps, mostly. That sector of the Internet is very fragmented and seemingly too tech heavy for the average user.

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u/BBz13z 1 points 2026-01-24 19:44

Damn I don’t smoke

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