Subj : Re: SSH on BBSes
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Sat Apr 16 2022 08:21:22

  Re: Re: SSH on BBSes
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to boraxman on Fri Apr 15 2022 07:27 am

 >  bo> Tech really has taken a turn for the worse, with the "consumer" model
 >  bo> of devices and apps.  We have the power to run our own social networks,
 >  bo> to handle our own communications, and yet, we centralise it all in the
 >  bo> hands of Big Tech.
 > 
 > He says, on a BBS networked on home machines around the world.   :)
 > 

The Internet, as infrastructure, is very decentralized itself. It is called The
Network of Networks because it is built up by small networks linked together
and ran by different administrators. I think it is quite cool, if you ask me.
There are a number of choke points but even those are solvable if need be.

And yes, boraxman likes BBS precisely because they are not a centralized
platform, but his point is that most people just uses silo-styled latforms
controled by a single entity for socializing.


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