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vga256

new tomo devlog post: how do you deal with shitty people behaviour?

tomo.city/#2025-01-22

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.

A screenshot of Ultima Online, from the article, "That Time We Burned Down Players' Houses in Ultima Online". It shows several UO team members running around a burned down house in the game. A bunch of corpses are on the ground. One corpse reads "Effigy of a Traitor".
#tomo#ultima#fidonet
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Anders Thoresson

I was tagged in the 'Blog Question Challenge 2025' by @markpitblado (thanks!). For me, this includes highlighting great tools like @eleventy, @drafts, and @ia – and a trip down memory lane and #FidoNet.

If it weren't for the supportive #11ty community here on Mastodon, this post would have been quite different. So I'm passing the challenge on to @zachleat (thanks for creating Eleventy!) and @bobmonsour (thanks for your invaluable contributions to the community!).

anders.thoresson.se/post/2025/

anders.thoresson.seBlog question challenge 2025
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Tobias Ernst

Warum bin ich #neuhier? Wegen dezentraler Organisation des Fediverse. War früher #fidonet-Sysop. Fand es aus Gründen der Freiheit immer schon erstrebenswert, Kommunikationsplatform nicht in singulärem Privatbesitz zu haben. Die meisten Inhalte im Fediverve scheinen politisch linken Einschlag zu haben? Als Demokrat kann ich damit leben, würde mir aber auch Inhalte meiner eigenen, liberal-konservativen Prägung, wünschen. Empfehlungen von Hashtags, Instanzen od. Accounts, denen ich folgen kann?

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Kevin Driscoll 📳

🎉 Yow! New from @katbamkapow
*"Through close-readings of HOMOCORE, contemporary zines, FidoNet documentation, interviews, and hybrid digital/analog archival research, this paper shows how the political afterlives of FidoNet and HOMOCORE can be read through the lens of queer activist self-destruction."*

📄 Brewster. 2024. Network breakdown: the queer anarchist politics at the heart of the ‘net from FidoNet to HOMOCORE. *Internet Histories*.
doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2024.

#bbs#fidonet#queer
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codefenix

Decided to Give Mast another shot. Looking to refollow as many as I can from the "old site".

Long time fan of #msdos games (Sierra, Apogee, etc), #BBSing, and #ANSIart.

If you're into #retrocomputing, why not stop by my #bbs and say hi? I run all the classic door games, make lots of my own original mods, and am connected to several cool message networks (like #fidonet & #fsxNet).

conchaos.synchro.net

conchaos.synchro.netConstructiveChaos BBSInternet-based BBS built with retro-gaming in mind, with emphasis placed on classic door games such as LORD, Usurper, and a curated selection of others.
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman:

Back To The BBS

Part 1: The Return To Being Online
youtu.be/n0OwGSX2IiQ

Part 2: Games And Mods
youtu.be/snpbAEN4I6M

Part 3: Privacy, Messaging, & Hardware
youtu.be/VpFaoLPPRGc

Part 4: BBS Server Software
youtu.be/Po7afzVSaQs

Part 5: The Underground
youtu.be/z_heZ-lgzq0

Part 6: The Demoscene
youtu.be/cw81Kax_XG4

Part 7: The Music Tracker Scene
youtu.be/Xswbw18DPWM

Part 8: The Art Scene
youtu.be/j-lDImxIyWE

#BBS #BBSing #FidoNet #retroComputing #vintageComputing​

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Anna Christina :verified_pink:

Hi! Some words about me: I'm into retrocomputing (#RC2014, CP/M, Amiga, Commodore, Novell NetWare) and run a BBS (Imzadi Box - box.imzadi.de; #FidoNet, #fsxNet etc.).
Besides, I prefer Linux and Free Software and selfhost many services (but not Mastodon).
I love my 2 cats and my wife <3
Just ask if you're curious :)
Regards, Anna

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