When I got on #Usenet shortly thereafter, the Unix Greybeard set never passed up an opportunity to tell us newcomers that the #Fidonet-Usenet bridge allowed the barbarian hordes to overwhelm their Athenian marketplace of ideas:

https://technicshistory.com/2020/06/25/the-era-of-fragmentation-part-4-the-anarchists/

When I joined #TheWELL in the late 1980s, I was repeatedly assured that the good times were over, and that we would never see their like again:

https://www.well.com/

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Does #WWIVnet still have its own #BBS email network? If so, are there bidirectional #smtp gateways? What about connectivity with its "nemesis" #fidonet? #retrocomputing

@roygreenhilt @cstross The internet as it is used was largely foreign to people's experience though.

What you had were federating #BBS, #Fidonet and #Usenet, with some packet radio on the side.

While the infrastructural and organizational lineage of the internet is inherently military... the social use of networked computers and systems is entirely separate from it and predates it (and especially predates its open access).

> See, because you need an always-on computer in order to really reliably use #decentralized social media
Bruh. #Usenet, #Fidonet and #UUCP (#UUCPnet) beg to differ (no reason you couldn't use #NNCP for Usenet now if #NNTP isn't your thing).

So do #SSB and #retroshare.

That criticism is pretty much specific to #ActivityPub as commonly implemented.

The #Fediverse is more than just ActivityPub and will outlive it.

@stevelord Wow, that's fantastic. I wonder if there are many Ham #BBS systems floating around anymore. Also, with the advent of #Winlink would they even have #Fidonet email service enabled?

@warpslide @mikemathia That also takes me back. I haven't thought about Legends of the Red Dragon in a long time. I'm sure I had a #Fidonet email address, but I don't recall using it. Echo net was something akin to #Usenet, right? It has been a few decades.

@themeowcate
Ça me rappelle bien #FidoNet y'a 30 ans et quelques.

I supposed I am a #GreyMuzzle, I was posting to a furry newsgroup by way of #Fidonet.

There is a lot that has changed. There are more recent styles of furry that just don't work for me. And I have my own personal tastes in details such as body shape which go back to my schooldays.

Some people should be using #Hashtags more than they do.

No massive corporate continents; just an endless archipelago of little communities, out there, doing their thing. Some boards had larger message sharing frameworks (#fidonet comes to mind) that let you communicate with people in faraway lands. "Far" being defined as a long distance telephone call, which was a *much* shorter distance then, than it is today.

@vga256 Hi there, don’t know if I’m your target audience. Just read an @arstechnica article about #bbs and was feeling nostalgic. I haven’t seen a modern era online community that could match the same feel of a bbs & #fidonet . Overall those were simpler times where you had to wait days/weeks to get a response to your post. Looking back I think it was the anticipation that helped bring the community together. There was no instant feedback

@Tooden @NightmaresAndFairytales @rolle #Fidonet and, later, #Usenet have been my socials for years. The Fediverse makes me feel young again 😆

@rolle #mastodon reminds of my first online experiences on #fidonet which was also federated and each #bbs had it's own admin plus community.

I used to be a #FidoNet point in 2004-2005, it was great time 🙂

Were you a point or a node in this #network?

Do you know something about #FidoNet?

@bigzaphod Anyone here who has been using Crosspoint? 😅
#FidoNet

@pooserville Not really, the comparison to email was only ever a comparison.

Email never actually had this issue in a way that mattered until the idiotic tendency for assuming constant low-latency TCP-friendly connections fully set-in.

You can still send email over #floppies, #Fidonet, #UUCP and #NNCP just fine, by the way.

And you completely ignored my second post, which suggested several ways by which the design could've avoided reimplementing #SMTP but for social media.

@cadey Yeah, it's a downgrade from #Fidonet and #Usenet isn'it?

@navi @bartavi #Email has a much better defined retry behavior in SMTP.

(Protocols dependent on successful low-latency TCP connections essentially don't qualify as supporting #AsynchronousCommunication, https://www.complete.org/asynchronous-communication/, email as commonly used does as noted there)

It is also simply not dependent on #SMTP in the first place, you can use #UUCP, #NNCP, #fidonet or a thumb drive (or floppy) with a spool just as well for it.

#ActivityPub as defined by the standard lacks that flexibility.

huskylib smapi fidoconf hptzip areafix hpt
Это порядок сборки hpt, а не заклинание, если что #fidonet

@WizardOfDocs @motoridersd @gretchenmcc Have not heard about that metric before. Do things like UseNet and FidoNet count as well? #Fidonet