Usenet is unmoderated. Once you post it, it sticks forever. We could probably get one of the independent providers to give free access to a new newsgroup. Anyone have any thoughts?
I’ve used Usenet for my content needs for years because it’s so fast and risk free. I think we could also use it for our community discussions.
Well, why not go back to BBS then ? I’d be happy to host a server
rubs hands together Oh yes, it’s all coming together!
OMG… we need a federated BBS.
Do you mean a BBS that could communicate with the Fediverse via the Activitypub protocol? Not sure if your post was a joke, but it might be doable lol. Synchronet is open source, and if someone is willing to get their hands dirty, it can be done.
I was serious. Conceptually it makes a lot of sense to do, I’ve thought about a number of CLI clients, but like a federated BBS from someone with the experience to do it right would be… just… chef’s kiss
I’m of the wrong era. I got the tail-end of using them and wasn’t developing until well into the WWW days.
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but someone wrote a TUI for Lemmy: https://github.com/mrusme/neonmodem
I see no reason why activitypub couldn’t work on Telnet tbh
Big oof… can’t we use something better than telnet? ;)
HUGE problem I see with using a BBS today is that telnet transmits in clear-text, which wasn’t much of an issue when we were still using dial-up modems. Suppose BBS software can be adapted for SSH, but to go through all that, may as well host shell accounts on a *nix platform IMO.
Off top of my head I can think of 2 BBS software that use SSH.
In any case, I would be hesitant on using any BBS that I cannot use key-based authentication.
If determined on clear-text BBS… may as well consider using Gopher instead of HTTP… just a thought since we’re pulling out the legacy protocols.
DOORs would def need to be a part of any BBS project… can’t imagine this would be that easy considering nearly all of them were DOS.
You put the tw2002 door on it and I’m so there!
Nostalgia++