BBSes

There oughta be more BBSes on Gemini. I don't mean copies of this capsule, I mean actual BBSes (dial-in or telnet) that also have a Gemini frontend. Log in, check messages and new files, play a door game or two, check your favourite FidoNet echoes.

=> Posted in: s/Geminispace | ☯️ dragfyre

2024-12-06 · 8 weeks ago · 👍 johano

8 Comments ↓

=> ☯️ dragfyre [OP] · Dec 06 at 02:42:

@HansBrix I mean, some BBSes offer both dialup and telnet access. SDF offers just about every method of access you can think of. So it's not that big of a stretch - the main challenges would be deploying and maintaining the technology. It would be especially nice to see interoperability, i.e. being able to access many of the regular BBS functions through Gemini as well as through the other methods.

=> 🎵 random-elephant · Dec 06 at 10:45:

Dial-in is interesting because it bypasses the Internet infrastructure. Not sure I see the point of telnet if it's then going to run Gemini, you can just run gemini on port 1965 as usual.

=> 🎵 random-elephant · Dec 06 at 16:40:

@HanzBrix well you could still do dialup over a mobile phone I guess ? It means you're not directly dependent on DNS or IP. Still dependent on some infrastructure of course - I'm not suggesting it's a good idea, I was just wondering in the context of this thread whether there would be a point to Gemini over dialup.

=> 🦂 zzo38 · Dec 06 at 19:15:

You could still run Telnet as well as Gemini (and possibly other protocols such as NNTP, IRC, SSH, etc). This is separate of whether or not you will also have a telephone number to provide access.

=> 🚀 stack · Dec 06 at 20:38:

With a real dialup connection or via SSH, you do not need Gemini's encryption... may as well use one of the simpler sister protocols.

=> 💎 pista · Dec 08 at 21:00:

I think there are issues with modems over VoiP (and modern cell phones) due to the compression used. I’d expect it is possible to make something work but I don’t think you will approach the speeds that were possible the over metal.

=> 🚀 stack · Dec 09 at 01:01:

You could rig up your router to throttle to 300bps if you feel particularly masochistic

=> 💎 pista · Dec 09 at 04:05:

Security though obscurity. Encrypt your data, encode your data within voice, encode the voice to data.