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    From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to All on Sat Jan 17 11:06:35 2026
    I ran into this, Dark Forest OS (dfos.com)

    It's a little light on details, but there's more details floating around on the web. It sounds like an interesting way to connect like-minded groups to create private internets. If this is a way to create vpn-connected web communities, I'm all in.

    There's quite a bit of information at strickler.com and some books on the topic of online creative communities. The common threads are that the ongoing enshittification of the public internets will continue and the solution is for like-minded people to create their own communities.

    Sound familiar? :)

    They're taking names for a rollout some time in 2026.

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 17 19:32:37 2026
    Re: Dark Forest OS and online communities?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Jan 17 2026 11:06 am

    are that the ongoing enshittification of the public internets
    will continue and the solution is for like-minded people to create
    their own communities.

    Sound familiar? :)

    They're taking names for a rollout some time in 2026.


    yes it sounds familiar. it's a dark net.
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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 17 20:54:47 2026
    Re: Dark Forest OS and online communities?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Jan 17 2026 11:06:35

    They're taking names for a rollout some time in 2026.

    Then they start kicking ass. ;)

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mortar on Sat Jan 17 21:10:40 2026
    Re: Dark Forest OS and online communities?
    By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 17 2026 08:54 pm

    They're taking names for a rollout some time in 2026.

    Then they start kicking ass. ;)

    And chewing bubblegum.

    Nightfox

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  • From Adovka@VERT/ANETO to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 18 13:34:42 2026
    Re: Dark Forest OS and online communities?
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Sat Jan 17 2026 11:06 am


    Okay yeah uh, im glad that those fellas felt the direction that net was heading to for the last 2-3 ish years, aka "the death of internet's public spaces and migration of users to a smaller places"
    cuz yeah, when public places suck you stay at home n shit. analogies 0:

    But DFOS looks like the most pretentious cluless nothing-burger made by some lib-left "EVERYWHERE AND EVERYONE ARE NAZIS" folks.

    yeah cuz for the problem of internet culture turning into US culture we need a solution made by liberal yanks.

    cant wait for it to flop and change nothing

    will wish that itll be usefull
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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 18 16:00:00 2026
    Hello pF!

    ** On Saturday 17.01.26 - 11:06, poindexter FORTRAN wrote to All:

    I ran into this, Dark Forest OS (dfos.com)

    It's a little light on details, but there's more details floating around on the web. It sounds like an interesting way to connect like-minded groups to create private internets. If this is a way to create vpn- connected web communities, I'm all in.

    The initial dfos page doesn't really say much what it is.



    There's quite a bit of information at strickler.com and some books on the

    strickler.com results in some kind of domains/email place.


    topic of online creative communities. The common threads are that the ongoing enshittification of the public internets will continue and the solution is for like-minded people to create their own communities.

    Sound familiar? :)

    They're taking names for a rollout some time in 2026.

    Who's behind it? Can you trust them it's not some sort of honeypot?

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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Sun Jan 18 19:19:20 2026
    Re: Dark Forest OS and online communities?
    By: Ogg to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 18 2026 04:00 pm


    The initial dfos page doesn't really say much what it is.


    it's just a darknet but they are calling it dfos to not scare people away
    from the technical aspect of setting it up.

    They're taking names for a rollout some time in 2026.

    Who's behind it? Can you trust them it's not some sort of honeypot?

    and why are they taking names, too.
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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Ogg on Mon Jan 19 01:38:55 2026
    Re: Dark Forest OS and online communities?
    By: Ogg to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Jan 18 2026 04:00 pm


    They're taking names for a rollout some time in 2026.

    Who's behind it? Can you trust them it's not some sort of honeypot?


    The Dark Forest Collective

    The Dark Forest Collective does not and will not exist | Yancey Strickler | Venkatesh Rao | Maggie Appleton | Peter Limberg | Rebecca Fox | Joshua Citarella | Arthur Röing Baer | GVN908 | Leith Benkhedda | Caroline Busta | Lil Internet | Ruby Justice Thelot | Katherine Dee | Nadia Asparouhova |
    Mindy Seu
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