Re: I just installed syncterm I NOW LIKE BBSES!! :)
By: Andrei Bedelean to All on Mon Aug 17 2026 02:51 am
dude bbses are soo cool like its been decades cince bbses started
and there are still online bbses thats soo Coool!!!!
You should have been around during the golden era -- the 1980s into
the very late 1990s. What a memory, and what a time! Rushing home
from school to try to get on your local boards before everyone else
and the constant busy signals until the wee hours of the morning.
In many ways, with the growing hatred amongst all people towards Facebook/Meta, AI, tech in general I am surprised we aren't seeing
more of a resurgence of BBS systems. I think people have finally had
enough of being told what tech they WILL use to enrich to the tech
bros. Sure took long enough.
A lot of my new callers say they're trying bulletin boards to get away
from places like Facebook so I get it.
nelgin wrote to Dmxrob <=-
In many ways, with the growing hatred amongst all people towards Facebook/Meta, AI, tech in general I am surprised we aren't seeing
more of a resurgence of BBS systems. I think people have finally had
enough of being told what tech they WILL use to enrich to the tech
bros. Sure took long enough.
A lot of my new callers say they're trying bulletin boards to get away from places like Facebook so I get it.
I think the best we could hope for is getting BBS messages toI wonder how hard of a project this would actually be -> getting it on to mastodon I imagine wouldn't
ActivityPub somehow, maybe re-appearing in Mastodon in some form?
Bryn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Re: Re: I just installed syncterm I NOW LIKE BBSES!! :)
By: poindexter FORTRAN to nelgin on Sat Oct 03 2026 08:52:05
I think the best we could hope for is getting BBS messages to
ActivityPub somehow, maybe re-appearing in Mastodon in some form?
I wonder how hard of a project this would actually be -> getting it on
to mastodon I imagine wouldn't be all that difficult, but posting from mastodon would likely be a nightmare to implement.
I wonder how hard of a project this would actually be -> getting it on to
mastodon I imagine wouldn't be all that difficult, but posting from
mastodon would likely be a nightmare to implement.
Are both of you under some kind of delusion as to how many people use Mastadon? Basically the same niche-ness as BBSing. That whole "fediverse" thing is just as obscure as a BBS.
Are both of you under some kind of delusion as to how many people use Mastadon? Basically the same niche-ness asThe most reliable estimate I could pull from mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats is ~900,000 active monthly users. Certainly a few orders of magnitude below mainstream social media, but I don't think that's nearly as niche as the BBS
BBSing. That whole
"fediverse" thing is just as obscure as a BBS.
Mastadon? Basically the same niche-ness as BBSing. That wholeThe most reliable estimate I could pull from mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats is ~900,000 active monthly users. Certainly a few orders of magnitude below mainstream social media, but I don't think that's nearly as niche as the BBS community.
"fediverse" thing is just as obscure as a BBS.
The most reliable estimate I could pull from mastodon.fediverse.observer/stats is ~900,000 active monthly users. Certainly a few orders of magnitude below mainstream social media, but I
don't think that's nearly as niche as the BBS
community.
Bryn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I wonder how hard of a project this would actually be -> getting it on
to mastodon I imagine wouldn't be all that difficult, but posting from mastodon would likely be a nightmare to implement.
Gamgee wrote to Bryn <=-
Are both of you under some kind of delusion as to how many people use Mastadon? Basically the same niche-ness as BBSing. That whole "fediverse" thing is just as obscure as a BBS.
Outlaw wrote to Bryn <=-
Basically we're like a secret society, a secret order, we're what's
left of the pre-Internet. We were the original internet pioneer's.
Basically we're like a secret society, a secret order, we're what's left
of the pre-Internet. We were the original internet pioneer's.
We're the guys who thought that internet thing was just a passing fad. :)
I remember buying my first internet yellow pages and typing them in by hand.
What, is this like the equivalent of having somebody print out as big of an /etc/hosts as anyone's been able to maintain and just typing it into your own machine? Sounds painful.I remember buying my first internet yellow pages and typing them in by hand.Which version did you have? I still have a Ryder's 2nd ed., before the WWW was a thing.
I remember buying my first internet yellow pages and typing them in by
hand.
Which version did you have? I still have a Ryder's 2nd ed., before the WWW was a thing.
What, is this like the equivalent of having somebody print out as big of an /etc/hosts as anyone's been able to maintain and just typing it into your own machine? Sounds painful.
Bryn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I wonder how hard of a project this would actually be -> getting it on to mastodon I imagine wouldn't be all that difficult, but posting from mastodon would likely be a nightmare to implement.
As long as you had parity between the mastodon users and the BBS users,
you could write something to gate messages into a mastodon server, then
use it to do the ActivityPub piece.
Evan Prodromou was a long-time BBS user and an acquaintance of mine,
maybe I can ask him. He co-wrote ActivityPub. :)
Re: Re: I just installed syncterm I NOW LIKE BBSES!! :)
Basically we're like a secret society, a secret order, we're what's left of the pre-Internet.
We were the original internet pioneer's.
taking off, a number of Internet "Yellow Pages" books showed up in bookstores. Mine was the New Riders Official Internet Yellow Pages. They were all basically the same; they all had yellow pages, listings sorted by catagories/subject, info on accessing the Net and the various tools available, etc. They were treasure troves of information.
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