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!
You put the tw2002 door on it and I’m so there!
Nostalgia++
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
Pretty close, at least with the UI, and deffo something that looks extensible (it works for various platforms). I could absolutely see using this as a launching point to a BBS with Forum, other doors would have to come later.
Oooooh and It’s GNU licensed so I could actually use some of that code…
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.