I like the Fediverse b/c its more connected than our old forums of yesteryear, but without big tech breathing down out necks...
paulie420
joined 1 year ago
You know whats funny... while I have Apollo installed - I always used Reddit's main app. :P LULZ - but I fully support them keeping their API open, as it has been for YEARS. I think they're fully out of line.
LOL ; thank gosh I haven't seen that, yet... I hope LemmyNet continues to be developed and takes advantage of Reddit's ship jumpers.
Thats a good point - jeez. Yea, I don't want to miss Beehaw; I don't want to miss anyone... thanks for the tip.
OK; understood and FULLY agree with your registration vs. others that can be gamed by a script kiddy. That question, and response, was part of the reason I chose Beehaw, too - I get it, thanks.
I get it that hiring new moderators would take some work; and I wouldn't suggest or support just letting anyone doso - like ME... I think I'm too new to be 'trusted' to doso - but it seems like you have many members of the Beehaw community that might want to help, and fit.
Thanks - I'll check the list of LemmyNet sites and pick the largest one - I suppose lemmy.world is the 'WHQ' and might best fit what I'm wanting... I prefer Beehaw, but since I'm new the LemmyNet I want to see ALL of whats going on - I want to see the influx of Reddit users... I want to see where Lemmy lacks and watch it as it continues to be developed.
I respect ya'll choice to defederate, I personally think you should just ask for the community to help w/ your work; regardless of how you try to slow LemmyNet down, when its more successful your jobs are going to grow exponentially. I'd prefer if you didn't do this; and think you'd be in a better position if you simply deal with LemmyNets growth...
Thanks for the quick reply, and I aren't going anywhere - if welcome - but I'll find a fully-federated LemmyNet to bridge the gap. :P
Hmmm; I am new to LemmyNet AND Beehaw.org; but have been falling in love with the platforms. However, I do want to see 'all' of LemmyNet.
What is the lemmyworld 'open registration policy? I ask because all I needed to supply to register HERE is a username/password. ??? Isn't that open registration?
Second, why not allow more moderators - please don't feel like you have to go over old stuff... I'm going to read thru some of Beehaw.org's PAST posts that I'm sure talk about this issue - but it seems like theres a great Beehaw.org community - if yer having issue w/ moderation, hire moderators; I bet the 'cost' is pretty cheap.
Last; what LemmyNet community should one join if they WANT to see the entire LemmyNet? I came aboard Beehaw.org BECAUSE I agreed w/ most of what the site stands for; but since I'm really getting into Lemmy I think I want to be where 'everything' is - good and bad.
Thanks for the explanation - even if confusing for a new user.
Ok; I'll take a peek... but I'm really feeling the LemmyNet vibe. That being said, I haven't used friendica so I'll drop by and have a l00k.
Alright, I wanted to come back now that my setup is complete... special thanks to those of you who suggested nginx-proxy-manager - its very nicely put together and really makes reverse proxies a breeze...
Long story short, I just created a brand new VM... started with the proxy manager and built on top of that. Next up was my static Hugo website; it was too easy to point change Apache2's ports.conf to 8097 instead of 80, and use nginx-proxy-manager for the SSL certs... that one was basically plug and play.
The Bitwarden bit was a bit more involved, but not too bad... at first I just redirected traffic to the original (other machine) Bitwarden VM - but no one wants an extra VM to backup and support... so I went with a fork Docker of bitwarden_rs/vaultmaster - it comes w/ e-mail setup in the container, so one less thing to worry about... I had to swap around some docker-compose.yml ports and just point nginx-proxy-manager at it... this time, tho, I used the SSL certs from the docker; I didn't wanna dig in and remove what they already had running.
In the middle I was still fighting with myself and not taking ya'lls good suggestions - I tried to go the Cloudflared route; which is a cool service... but you can't tunnel root domains unless you're a paid user. Cloudflared tunnels would be great for exposing the Plex, TrueNAS, etc's of the world... but I didn't NEED/want subnets.
Thanks to the Beehaw community... TechHeart.life is up and running. :P (Don't worry, the Bitwarden is on a private domain. Phhhbbbbtttt.)
They cut last admins regulations back on week 1.
So do I; we should be allowing both fossil and green.
Same.
Yes.
Everyone here is awesome for ALL the replies. :P Thank you!!
I decided to try a Cloudflared tunnel, but that didn't work out because I can't get the main domain1.com domain to go thru the tunnel... only 'apps', like blog.domain1.com. :P
And, I'm still ironing out how to pass nginx to another local IP on my network; I just haven't gotten it to click yet. All the info needed is right here - I promise to come back when I iron out the setup and post how I managed to do it...
I can figure out how to pass nginx [or apache2, for that matter] to another PORT on the same local IP - I think I have both domains listening on ports 80/443 - and I'll have to change that in order to route the data correctly... let alone getting out to another local IP.
Again appreciate all the info - sometimes I just have to learn a bit more since I have all the documents right here. :P
So... I'm from Texas [living in OR..] and an entire industry was cut in half because of this admins cutback in oil - while some of this admins work might have saved you money and allowed you to build your personal infrastructure in a direction you agree with, the people of Midland and Odessa Texas lost 50% overnight.
And, all the workers who flocked and prospered are gone with no oil jobs to go back to.
What is a BBS?
A bulletin board system (BBS), also called a computer bulletin board service (CBBS), is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through public message boards and sometimes via direct chatting. In the early 1980s, message networks such as FidoNet were developed to provide services such as NetMail, which is similar to internet-based email.
Back in the early 90s I was turned on to the PC MS-DOS community. It was a fun time of WordPerfect 5.0, Lotus 1-2-3 and some text and light graphical games that came around the way... Tapper, Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 and other worthy softwarez; but things got real when I learned that you could dial-up to other computers, and bulletin board systems, to reach a world beyond your monitor. In the United States, and many other countries as I've come to learn, you could find [amost] hundreds of BBSes in every area code! There were plenty of public domain [shareware] boards, but the elite user could find systems dedicated to more seedy topics... HPAVC [Hacking, phreaking, anarchy, virus, cracking], warez [pirate software], the art and dem0scenes... you could literally find anything you sought out. As time went on, BBSes would get their own type of message networking; FidoNet FTNs and begin to connect in ways that weren't originally possible. At the end of BBSes, many of them turned into early ISPs in the cities they operated in, as the sysOps already had a lot of the hardware that was needed - and many sysOps would earn a very good living serving up the bytes of data that their users lusted...
Sounds boring... I can only take so many Lemmy messages...
Door Games were a huge part of BBSing. Door Games were brought to life with the ANSi graphics that BBSes used - while they weren't fully graphical, they were exciting and multi-player... something that you couldn't get on PCs of the day. Popular Door Games were Tradewars 2002, Legend of the Red Dragon [LoRD], Barren Realms Elite, The Pit, Arrowbridge, DrugWars, Operation Overkill II and many m0re. For the time, they were literally worlds beyond what you could find on early 8088 machines... and continued to be very popular even as graphics won over w/ the likes of the shareware kings. The reason? Multi-player games; there are many servers and BBSes that still get users lining up to play - in 2o23!
Phone lines are dead, how do we connect?!
After copper wires telephone lines went the way of the dodo, and TCP/IP took over the interwebs, the BBSes of the day mostly went offline... but it would prove short-lived, as we soon learned how to connect the old BBS software up to TELNET and SSH - allowing them to be hosted on the web; no m0re phone bills to get you grounded!! All you need to connect today is an ANSi-capable terminal software. (Or, PETSCII for Commdore BBSes, AmigaFonts for Amiga boards or Atari support for Atari bbSes...) There are a few of these that are developed for current machines:
Syncterm - Syncterm is the 'best', as it has ANSi, PETSCII, C=, Amiga, Atari, RIP and SIXEL support.
Netrunner - Netrunner is a GREAT ANSI/Amiga terminal [About 80% of all BBSes] as it has anti-aliasing and the fonts look smooth and crisp.
MagiTERM - A decent terminal, developed by APAM.. a BBS user that also develops door games and even BBS software...
The easiest, if you run Linux or Windows, is Netrunner... SyncTERM is a binary download for Windows and MacOS, but will require a compile on Linux... don't worry, tho - MeaTLoTioN of The Quantum Wormhole BBS has an awesome how-to/script that you can follow to compile it with ease!
- You can also connect using MS-DOS, or other, software on real hardware... there are many Wifi Modem's to choose from, but I'll make you hunt for Telix or Terminate 5.0 on your own time...)
They're all stupid stock boards - wheres the beef!?
Many new BBS users peruse The Telnet BBS Guide and are first surprised at how many BBSes are available to connect to... only to quickly find out that the majority of listed boards are stock setups without much substance or community... but I'm here to tell you that you just have to turn the r0cks and find the great BBSes out there; or, just connect to these:
2o fOr beeRS - This is actually my bbS!! We get about 30 callers a day, have all the popular FidoNet-FTNs and over 800 users... come on by, 2oFB is a wild one. MORE Social, less Media.
20ForBeers.com:1337 TELNET :1338 SSH
aBSINTHE - Ran by the sysOp aNACHRONiST - he's also a great ASCII artist and aBSINTHE is literally my favorite BBS of all time. It's an Amiga joint, ran on CNet BBS software. Skyraiders is a door game that he's developed from scratch and is one of the very best doors I've ever played... you aren't BBSing if yer not here!
absinthebbs.net:1940 TELNET
The Quantum Wormhole - Another mainstay of BBSes and home to MeaTLoTioN, the writer of that Syncterm script from above... its just a damn good BBS; clean, safe and solid. Some SIXEL graphics support if you look around...
bbs.erb.pw:23 TELNET
Wizards Rainbow - Can you believe this one?! Shooter Jennings, yea THAT Shooter Jennings, is the sysOp! Furthermore, he writes custom Door Games and just introduced a new one called Phantasie Plaza! Its a LoRD-type RPG and is looking really nice. He also wrote a few other Doors; 1NS0MNIA - and hosts a Door Game Server that any sysOp can connect their BBS to... rock and roll w/ Shooter @ the rainbow...
wizardsrainbow:23 TELNET
Dura-Europos - This one runs on an old Apple IIe BBS software - and is literally still hosted from Apple IIe hardware running at 9600 baud! Skip, the sysOp, does amazing things w/ that Apple... including a lot of Syncterm font switching and graphic wizardry - this one doesn't have all the flashing lights and pizazz as some other boards, but when you see what he does with rudementary hardware - its amazing!
dura-bbs.net:6359 TELNET
SLACKERS BBS - The bad boys of BBSing... the assholes... the haters - and a damn solid BBS, too. (The sysOp, GnGRDR3DMan, doesn't even care to pay for a domain.... gangster!)
slackers.ddns.net:2323 TELNET
Black Flag - Hawk, the sysOp, never left BBSing... he is one of the original pirates, the original r0ckstars - and his family of BBSes are many. I'll only link to the main one, but it features RIP graphics if you wanna experience that - RIP never really caught on, but Hawk don't care!! (You can find 5+ other Black Flag boards if you l00k for them...)
blackflag.acid.org:23 TELNET
Frozen Floppy - This is a Commodore 64 BBS; you'll have to have Syncterm, and you'll have to select C64 or C128 as the 'screen mode'. You'll be amazed at the 40-column PETSCII graphics, and the fact that C= users are still kickin... the art here is top notch, too... C= heaven.
bbs.retrohack.se:64128 TELNET
Do I really wanna spend time on this sh*t?!
You do. You'll be amazed by the community of BBSing in 2o23 - I know this, because you're here... sysOps of BBSes are also OSS, privacy minded, federation, technology and Linux users! While very different from the Twitters or Facebooks of social media, BBSes offer something you can't get on that shiny iPhone - community. I hope to catch you @ 2oFB, or on one of the many other BBSes still running today. GET S0ME!
If you have any questions about bulletin boards, please feel free to email me @ 2oFB or reply here; there's always someone willing to help, whether you want to become a user, a door game player or even a sysOp... you'll find it all on a BBS near, or far, from you!
- pAULIE42o
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Hello people of the fediverse! Wanted to quickly introduce myself and mention why I'm here... I was a Reddit lurker, I enjoyed it - and then I starting learning about alternatives... federated self-hosted replacements... the Matrix, Mast, Lemmy things of the w0rld. So I searched for a Lemmy community that I wanted to rock with and found Beehaw. Once I saw that I didn't need to supply my home address, social security #, email, etc etc etc - I was in. I'm a retro computing lover - come by 2o fOr beeRS bbS @ 20ForBeers.com:1337; ANSI-TELNET/SSH[:1338] terminal needed. I'm a member of other federated Matrix and Mastodon communities; matrix.erb.pw mast.erb.pw
And h0pe to meet other like-minded folks around these parts. HELLO!
pAULIE42o . . . . . . . . . . . /s
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