weird how some days my timeline is boring and/or unfathomable
then other days, almost everything i see is smart and relevant
since joining mastodon, i don't think i've had so much fun online since #FidoNet
(not saying that because @tomjennings is my brother (or maybe i'm his, i don't know). i made a few great friendships on FidoNet)
There are, admittedly, many ways to federate, I've made this mistake before. #Fediverse is one example #FidoNet was another, and I'm guessing Office365 too? It is decentralized sharinging which in our case is an open standard.
"Tom Jennings on Plutopia Live; 09-Feb-2021"
https://plutopia.io/tom-jennings-on-plutopia-live
The Modem World: "A prehistory of social media", documenting pre-Internet online communication
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300248142/modem-world/
#socialmedia #history #fidonet #1980s #bbs #+
@timoj And yes, a FidoNews archive would be cool. In particular for the years where the issues had some real content.
All of the FTSC documents should now be on the previous link posted. They're not external links, they point to the site where they're hosted.
And, the more the merrier 
There ... now everything should be there 
(It's sad that the descriptions haven't been updated with the *actual* date of the document, I have no idea why. I've updated it for most of them manually, except for the "Reference Library" files.)
Ich bin alt und #Nerd genug, dass ich #Fidonet noch kenne und auch die große Ähnlichkeit mit dem #Fediverse bemerke.
Und das gefällt mir.
new tomo devlog post: how do you deal with shitty people behaviour?
excerpt:
after posting that "Eris-Free Net" wikipedia article the other day, it made me think about how to deal with misbehaving shards on tomoNet, and how governance works on decentralized networks.
when i started thinking about creating something like tomo years ago, i often thought about Ultima Online as - not so much a model for - but an example of a network of online communities that was always interesting and sometimes frustrating to deal with
in-game, for several years, UO really was the "wild west" of online communities - so much was left up to players to figure out. for a long time, there were no game mechanics that enabled players to enact governance of their own (e.g. creating towns, villages, provinces and local laws). the outcome of this was that most often a kind of hillbilly/frontier justice, or outright dog-eat-dog existence, became the norm.
this was great for player-killers and people who loved strife. it added some intensity to the game that no other game had, or in my view has ever had since. (WoW/EQ/etc all elected to bolt everything down and render the world in nerf).
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BBSes also had governance-by-sysop/god, FidoNet with network coordinators, and USENET with its backbone cabal.
tomoNet - a network of tomo shards that agree to all swap groups/posts with one another - is going to have to deal with the question of (self-) governance sooner or later. at the moment, tomoBBS has no specific controls for managing defederation and it does *not* use the ActivityPub protocol. it needs some, and i need help thinking through what the options are, for a network based on NNTP.
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if you've got thoughts on how your online social community was governed (or failed to be governed) by its users, i'd love to hear about it. it's a wide open topic for debate, and there are no wrong answers at the moment.
I'm not done yet, but it's a start. I can't be bothered to automate it for this one-off
FidoNet Technical Standards Committee documents
@tomjennings @joho http://www.fidonet.itu.se/ft.htm seems to have working links to #fidonet technical documents still. Not sure how up to date it is (but I guess most stuff hadn't changed in a long time).
@tomjennings Yes, there is.
What @timoj said
Finally managed to find the time to reboot the Definite Solutions website to something more appropriate for 2025 and much less bloated 
