[Off Topic]Discussing how to have communities without going back to something http/s based

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On June 7, 2021 3:54:57 PM UTC, Andrew Singleton <singletona082 at gmail.com>
wrote:
>(... snip ...) Through that whole time I peek in at Twitter

Nitter could be ported to Gemini, there are server libs for nim

>, diffrent discourse forums,

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>older pho based forums (most notesbly brass goggles.) And on and on..

Brass Goggles appears to have Tapatalk support (http://brassgoggles.co.uk/
forum/mobiquo/mobiquo.php) so it's possible to make a non-web viewer.

>Which has left me pondering how 'we' would handle communities, or even if
>'we' should.
>
>There is as far as I am aware, without going to http/s:
>
>* Mailing lists. (... snip ...)
>
>* BBS; (... snip ...)

There's also NNTP/Usenet. IIRC groups can be hosted on their own server or
as part of the actual Usenet network.


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