tom jennings on Nostr: npub1k08pe…h6xvn npub17l7fw…4ljgk npub1w7agf…9tpn3 It's true, the ...
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It's true, the fediverse/FidoNet paralells are there -- as far as they go. 35,000 systems in the "big" FidoNet, at it's peak, and countless private/other/far away ones.
But there were no global-legal issues to worry about, there was no radar to fly under or into. And I built no site ("instance") blocking tools, but the nodelist (more or less /etc/hosts but assembled from distributed and some centralized components) was flat text (CSV more or less) so you could mess with it and everyone did, that was the joy and the horror.
The environment was much simpler, needless to say. So the skeletal parallels where there, and though there was a heirarchic "routing" paradigm, to manage the cost of connections, the system was quite intentionally flat, explicitly queer-anarchist. That part wasn't exactly popular with some folks but fuck 'em.
It's true, the fediverse/FidoNet paralells are there -- as far as they go. 35,000 systems in the "big" FidoNet, at it's peak, and countless private/other/far away ones.
But there were no global-legal issues to worry about, there was no radar to fly under or into. And I built no site ("instance") blocking tools, but the nodelist (more or less /etc/hosts but assembled from distributed and some centralized components) was flat text (CSV more or less) so you could mess with it and everyone did, that was the joy and the horror.
The environment was much simpler, needless to say. So the skeletal parallels where there, and though there was a heirarchic "routing" paradigm, to manage the cost of connections, the system was quite intentionally flat, explicitly queer-anarchist. That part wasn't exactly popular with some folks but fuck 'em.