Subj : Re: Where is everybody?
To   : Alonzo
From : tenser
Date : Tue Jul 04 2023 10:19 am

On 03 Jul 2023 at 03:00p, Alonzo pondered and said...
 
 Al>  te> in HF).  Similarly with BBSes.  I think there's a bit
 Al>  te> of an assumption that people will _want_ to use a BBS
 Al>  te> if they just get a bit of exposure, but no one's
 Al>  te> stopped to ask people if it they would use it as
 Al> 
 Al> I've asked and several people have said that they want to use it. Mostly
 Al> friends, really. We're just going to use the BBS as sort of a digital
 Al> hangout. We're also going to use a guestbook as sort of a test for
 Al> something we want to do on other platforms. It won't be a replacement
 Al> for what you can do on the Internet. It will just be something extra.

I think if you've kind of got a built-in community
you can make it work, but one has to be comfortable
with that community not really changing much in size
over time, or possibly contracting.

A group of folks I'm familiar with (mostly PLT and
OS people and former colleagues) run a private Matrix
instance (migrated off of Discord) hosted on a VPS.
Accounts on the underlying host were offered, but no
one was really interested except for a handful of us.

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