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  • Re: I just installed sync

    From Nopants@VERT/CITBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Oct 5 17:11:00 2026
    Re: Re: I just installed sync
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Outlaw on Mon Oct 05 2026 09:07 am

    We're the guys who thought that internet thing was just a passing fad.
    :)

    Is it not? It completely sucks anyway.



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  • From Boraxman@VERT/MSRDBBS to Neko on Fri Oct 9 08:33:00 2026
    Neko wrote to Bryn <=-

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    Re: Re: I just installed syncterm I NOW
    LIKE BBSES!! :)
    By: Bryn to Gamgee on Sun
    Oct 04 2026 12:04:05

    The most reliable estimate I could pull from
    mastodon.fediverse.observer/stat
    s 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.

    I also know at least a few people that are visiting "fediverse
    instances" regularily, but been to BBSes once or twice and don't seem
    to catch the thing for too long. Maybe because of a network effect, because some of them are at least familiar with terminal interfaces.

    Its mostly the network effect I think. I myself, despite being familiar with these interfaces, "drop out" of BBS's and the other alternative, older systems because the people just aren't there.

    After all, I use the technology to communicate with people, not just for the sake of using the technology.

    The Gemini community is a good example of people who are together because of a technology, and not an actual desire to talk to each other.


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