SMALL INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUNDUP

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On 10/27/2021 12:03 PM, Michael Lazar wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 6:05 PM Andrew Singleton
> <singletona082@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> This. I like it.
>>
>> Question:
>> Other than Usenet and BBS's, are there any protocols that are purely message-board centric?
>
> Not that I'm aware of. There's all of the fediverse peer-to-peer stuff
> (ActivityPub, Scuttlebutt, etc.) but I don't consider that to be in
> the same category as this list and I'm not very familiar with them.
>
> There are probably more than a dozen message boards built on top of
> Gopher and Gemini, most of them modelled after chan-style image boards
> or traditional web forums. gemini://station.marinrue.com is the only
> one I know of that takes a shot at copying a twitter-like social feed.
>
> Also, maybe it's just the circles that I hang out in, but BBS (over
> telnet) seems to be rising in popularity again.
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
That they certainly are; I have accounts on several, some over SSH as well as Telnet.