• A simple answer: keep BBJ a safe place from the public world [wasRe: A Simple Proposal: BBJ and USENET Bridging]

    From f6k@f6k@huld.re to tilde.meta on Sat Oct 10 01:30:45 2020
    hello,

    On 2020-10-09, randomuser@tilde.club <randomuser@tilde.club> wrote:
    I'm not sure there's a great value in merging the two since they
    function so differently.

    from my humble point of view, i don't think it's a matter of technical function.

    BBJ is a little place where people from tilde.town can meet and share
    about tilde.town and, more important, about themselves. it's like the
    local neighborhood bar, where you meet with your local friendly
    neighbors, and where you speak about the... yes, local neighborhood.
    and i'm pretty sure that every pubnix server has this kind of software
    which meet the same goal.

    the thing is that, like many others recent pubnix, tilde.town is a
    safe, non-judgemental, and respectful place. so when you speak with
    your neighbors in tilde.town, you know they'll have some state of open-mindedness.

    BBJ is closed to the outside, yes, and anyone from tilde.town knows
    that. and i'd like to add that some people might see in this state a
    way of being "free" to speak, "free" to express themselves like they
    truly are inside. because it's closed, they don't fear their nickname
    will be associated with something said that could be difficult to
    express outside. again, because tilde.town is a safe, non-judgemental,
    and respectful place.

    sometimes, what somebody say to the tilde.town neighborhood in BBJ is
    not meant to be said to the world. yes, i'm speaking of sexuality,
    genre, emotional states, etc. if you have browsed some old topics on
    BBJ, you already know it. and we all are aware that the outside world
    is not a safe place for some of us to express those things without
    going to warfare.

    because of that, BBJ has no sense outside of tilde.town and furthermore
    it is not meant to be accessible worldwide. or, if it were, it'll be
    "felt" different, like any other public forum you can browse online.

    tildenews is totally public and openly accessible. tildenews is still
    a little thing, and it's a safe place because all people here are
    respectful. i really hope it'll stay that way but, yet, it's totally
    open to the world; you don't need to register, you don't need to be
    part of some tilde community to access it. actually an outsider bot
    can scan it without a problem. what we say here *is* public and
    totally accessible by anyone.

    please, don't get me wrong. i'm really happy to see bridges being
    built between all the pubnix around--like what was made with irc for
    tildeverse for instance. i'm really happy to see that tildenews is
    growing and allows sharing between various pubnix users. but tildenews
    is public and some things needs to stay separate from the open world.

    in this sense, i trully think that bridging BBJ to tildenews would
    break BBJ's bubble of safeness and privacy.

    thanks for reading me and sorry for my bad english.

    -f6k

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  • From James Tomasino@tomasino@cosmic.voyage to tilde.meta on Sat Oct 10 00:51:34 2020
    On 2020-10-09, f6k <f6k@huld.re> wrote:
    hello,

    On 2020-10-09, randomuser@tilde.club <randomuser@tilde.club> wrote:
    I'm not sure there's a great value in merging the two since they
    function so differently.

    from my humble point of view, i don't think it's a matter of technical function.

    BBJ is a little place where people from tilde.town can meet and share
    about tilde.town and, more important, about themselves. it's like the

    Ahh, more confusion. There's a broader tildeverse bbj instance: bbj.tildeverse.org

    It's not connected to town's.
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  • From f6k@f6k@huld.re to tilde.meta on Sat Oct 10 14:27:40 2020
    On 2020-10-10, James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> wrote:
    On 2020-10-09, f6k <f6k@huld.re> wrote:
    BBJ is a little place where people from tilde.town can meet and share
    about tilde.town and, more important, about themselves. it's like the

    Ahh, more confusion. There's a broader tildeverse bbj instance: bbj.tildeverse.org

    wow, my bad. in my mind BBJ was always the social software for
    tilde.town. never thinked the name could have been used for an
    instance somewhere else... thank you James for correcting me, and
    sorry for the divertion from the initial topic.

    -f6k

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