Are you sick of modern social media? Do push notifications and infinite scroll get you down? Do you long for the simpler days, when the web was young, and you chose when to interact with the Internet?
if so, gitbbs is for you!
GitBBS is an idea built on a tool that makes communication more of a choice. The way it works is that you use your text editor to interact with posts, and git to share your posts with others. That means that you can use the Internet, sneakernet, or even git over Avian Protocol.
You're convinced and you'd like to use gitbbs? Cool! Well, you're gonna want to clone this repo, or any of its forks. The default one should be available here:
git clone https://github.com/waynew/gitbbs.git
Once you've got the repo cloned, simply head to the topics folder. Here is
where you'll find topics that you can interact with. To create a new topic,
simply create a new folder. To create a new discussion in the topic, create a
new file with a name YYYYMMDD-this-is-my-topic.txt.
Entries in the topic basically look like plaintext email headers. The two required fields are From and Date (which can include time+timezone information)
When you finish composing/replying to topics, simply make a commit and then either push your changes or create a pull request.
If you have a public fork available, drop a link to it in the forks.txt file.
This will allow other users to add your copy of the repo, which then can be
retrieved with git fetch --all.
Be kind. There may be parts of the BBS for more iintense discussions, but default to kindness.
Text should be wrapped at roughly 80 columns. Not a hard limit, but, preferred.
Don't edit other people's responses, unless it's some kind of awful (hate speech, racism, etc. etc.). If you have to, replace it with:
<edited out from GIT_HASH>
where GIT_HASH is found with git rev-parse HEAD. This is git, so nothing is
easily forgotten.
For discussion about gitbbs itself, see the meta topic. The utils folder
contains scripts that you might find useful/helpful.
Anonymity is probably not truly possible. If you want some measure of identity, look into gpg signing of commits.
Don't commit binary files.