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.

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    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.

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      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.

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          Pretty close, at least with the UI, and deffo something that looks extensible (it works for various platforms). I could absolutely see using this as a launching point to a BBS with Forum, other doors would have to come later.

          Oooooh and It’s GNU licensed so I could actually use some of that code…