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.

    • milano@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Borgzilla@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • j4yc33@kbin.social
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          1 year ago

          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.