Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : Arelor
From : tenser
Date : Tue Apr 12 2022 03:35:03

On 06 Apr 2022 at 06:03p, Arelor pondered and said...
 
 Ar> BBS may be hosted on random VPS, but the point is that it is easy to
 Ar> pack your toys and move them elsewhere if your VPS goes crazy or
 Ar> censorful for whatever reason. You can run many modern BBS packages in
 Ar> commodity operating systems.

Is that significantly different than using an open source
package built on standard Internet protocols?  Indeed, most
BBSes are accessed over the Internet these days.  For that
matter, one can set up a Raspberry Pi running Linux or
something and just give people accounts on it.

 Ar> This is in heavy contrast with massive applications which are tailored
 Ar> to the computing platform they run on, using AWS exclusive facilities or
 Ar> whatever. If you are kicked of one of those you will have to re-engineer
 Ar> your application. It is not as easy to move a mega-application like
 Ar> Parler from a provider with which it is tightly integrated as it is for
 Ar> somebody to tar -czf your BBS bundle and move it somewhere else.

But that's a false dichotomy.  It's not, "BBS versus mega
application."  Even with federation.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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