Board:   [DoveNet] DoveNet General Chat
Subject: Re: I just installed sync
From:    Boraxman
Date:    Fri Oct 09, 2026 09:33

@VIA: MSRDBBS
-=> Neko wrote to Bryn <=-

 Ne> @MSGID: <6AC2C1E1.8445.dove-general@bbs.miyanet.moe>
 Ne> @REPLY: <6AC28705.40747.dove-general@endofthelinebbs.com>
 Ne>   Re: Re: I just installed syncterm I NOW
 Ne> LIKE BBSES!! :)
 Ne>   By: Bryn to Gamgee on Sun
 Ne> Oct 04 2026 12:04:05

 > The most reliable estimate I could pull from
mastodon.fediverse.observer/stat
 Ne> s is ~900,000 active monthly users. Certainly a few orders of magnitude
 Ne> below mainstream social media, but I
 > don't think that's nearly as niche as the BBS
 > community.

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