Subj : Re: Long Day
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Jan 25 2022 23:07:51

 Ar> When it comes to children, I am more concerned with Internet predators
 Ar> and scammers than I am about private data harvesting. Not that private
 Ar> data harvesting is harmless, but classical criminals are a couple of
 Ar> steps up in the threat scale.
 Ar> 

Good point.  Data harvesting is a type of predation, but not the physical thread of the type of predation you were referring to.

 Ar> I don't think it applies to your use case, but I am organizing a
 Ar> brithday party for my group so I have set a Mumble server for voice chat
 Ar> and a FOSS game server for playing Terraforming Mars online. In theory
 Ar> you could set a web interface for Mumble so everykid would be able to
 Ar> chat online from it. My friends and I use dedicated clients instead.
 Ar> 
 Ar> If you want to get regular kids to use the service you need something
 Ar> simple. A mailing list would do. FluxBB would do. You need something
 Ar> they can use with tools they are already familiar with or they won't get
 Ar> to use it. The only reason why somebody installs a client for some odd
 Ar> protocol they don't use anywhere else is because they absoñlutely need
 Ar> it (such as, none of my friends uses gopher, but some have installed a
 Ar> gopher client because of some content I offer which is not available
 Ar> under other protocols).
 Ar> 

Is the server self contained on your own hardware?  I'm not too worried about using services hosted elsewhere, but Big Tech and the way they carry on has left a bad taste in my mouth.  There are many good companies that don't act this way though.
 Ar> As you are interested in friend-to-friend networks, I will say that
 Ar> Retroshare deserves an honorable mention. It is resource hungry and not
 Ar> trivial to use, but it offers filesharing, chat and forum-like features
 Ar> in a distributed manner. It is intended so each node connects only to
 Ar> nodes designated as trustworthy friends.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Also, setting an IRC server with a web interface and a ZNC is an option
 Ar> :-)
 Ar> 

Thanks for the recommendation, RetroShare looks pretty good!  I think I'm going to play with this and check it out.

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