Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: I just installed sync
From:    Neko
Date:    Mon Oct 05, 2026 00:15

Subject: Re: I just installed syncterm I NOW LIKE BBSES!! :)
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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/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.

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.

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