Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: I just installed sync
From:    MRO
Date:    Thu Oct 08, 2026 07:02

Subject: Re: I just installed syncterm I NOW LIKE BBSES!! :)
@VIA: BBSESINF
  Re: Re: I just installed syncterm I NOW LIKE BBSES!! :)
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Bryn on Mon Oct 05 2026 08:07 am

> -=> Bryn wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
>
>  Br> I wonder how hard of a project this would actually be -> getting it on
>  Br> to mastodon I imagine wouldn't be all that difficult, butposting from
>  Br> mastodon would likely be a nightmare to implement.
>
> As long as you had parity between the mastodon usersand 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.  :)


It would be a huge mess.
Furthermore, some people wouldn't want their msgs posted here be gated
to another medium
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