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Is Usenet an option for /Piracy?
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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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? ;)
You put the tw2002 door on it and I’m so there!
Nostalgia++
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.