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Re: Why you no BBS?

Stack asked why not join BBS?

And same can be said for Station, Geddit etc.

And Iā€™m not into it.

I just donā€™t like making silo accounts all over the place.

Iā€™ve had a few Reddit accounts, and accounts on Discourse or Vanilla sites like Story-Games, and the big bad evil elephant in the room called BoardGameGeek, but Iā€™m not happy about it.

Antenna is also centralized, but since it could easily be changed to a decentralized system if Gemini space ever becomes too big, I was like ā€œenh, itā€™s fineā€. I follow a couple of other aggregators as well.

Antenna

Schapcom

Update

Looks like people are also using the BBS to make gemlogs (for example for Antenna).

That, I 100% support. Itā€™s great that there are hosting sites for gemlogs & capsules.

Update again: On second thought, these compatibility features exacerbate how problematic the BBS is. Itā€™s embrace & extend with ā€œgot to log inā€ā€“style conversational features.

Someone I donā€™t get along with very well wrote:

I find it amusing that the people who complain about Bubble bringing a social media aesthetic to Gemini gobble up attention on the aggregators.

ā€œThe people whoā€ā€¦ probably better known as me. Pretty messed up, referring to having a gemlog as ā€œgobbling up attention on the aggregatorsā€.

Bubble provides zero friction hosting for long-form content in Geminispace. Critics donā€™t have to care about that

That was the one thing I wrote was a good thing.šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø Iā€™ve asked for years and years for lower friction content hosting and Iā€™ve promoted and recommended some of the sites that do provide hosting, like flounder.

That has nothing at all to do with what I see is the big problem with Facebook and sites like it.

I wrote more about that here.

Federation & source code

Bubble might get federation.

The source code has also been released under BSD-2.

So my criticism isnā€™t meant as a damnation for all time. There is some hope for this project to end up being a good thing. But thatā€™s then. This is now. For now, Iā€™ve blocked it!

It would be great to reuse existing Gemini infrastructure for this. Antenna/Cosmos could be used as sources of ā€œfederatedā€ posts that will appear in All Posts as new entries, to be interacted and commented on. Something to consider...

Wellā€¦

You guys can easily comment on our posts but the opposite isnā€™t as easy, is the situation. Itā€™s just yet another reason why people should get an account on the big Bubble instance. But OK. Itā€™s better than nothing šŸ’šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø Because then we could update our own posts or make new posts if we wanted to reply back.