Pohon BBS

Matrix server launched

2024-11-17T15:51:02+00:00

In the past I have hosted matrix-synapse servers on multiple
occasions; resource consumption was always the limiting factor that
led me to pull the plug on them. Maybe someday I'll launch an XMPP
server. Until then, please enjoy using our matrix-conduit server.
Say hi in #lounge:gikopoi.com or swing by the #relay:gikopoi.com room
to chat with our discord and irc friends.

multichan/0chan.vip down

2024-10-24T17:37:44+00:00

0chan.vip (multichan) is down.
unavailable.

the last bastion of truth & freedom. a truly decentralized federated multichan
bbs without js bloat.

bring it back.
pohon is not a replacement because it's not a decentralized multichan.

Does Anonymity really improve discourse?

2024-05-24T07:30:05+00:00

By anonymity, I really mean anonymity -- not pseudonymous communities

Anonymity lowers the barrier to entry... for people who prefer
anonymous communities. But a lot of people who want to invest a lot of
real energy into a community, people who want to put work into serious
projects, are not going to prioritize an imageboard over something
like Discord or Twitter.

The main purpose of imageboards is to give a toilet to the internet.
Need to blow off steam? Vent? Post a dick pic? Get involved in petty
debates? Or are you such a brain damaged person that you get banned
from "mainstream" internet constantly -- you're the target audience
for 4chan.

Textboards and Gikopoi seem to have less tendency to go to complete
ass than imageboards, so anonymity does not automatically imply shit.
But this may just be due to the fact that these communities are very
small -- and they have less bias against pseudonymity than imageboards
As a counter-example, look at Sageru IRC for something that's generally
lower quality than /b/, /soc/, /pol/ etc

On places like IRC, Gikopoi, Mastodon, and other low-barrier pseudonymous
communities, mentally ill people and naughty children are easily blocked,
which creates a negative feedback loop that incentivizes the posters to
either shape up or get out. On the other hand, with an imageboard, when
trolling, someone can flame himself in the comments to keep himself in the
spotlight -- an anti-feature.

So my basic opinion is that anonymous and pseudonymous communities are
essentially equally good when small, and that as communities scale,
anonymous communities fare worse. This makes me think that gatekeeping
is actually not a bad thing. I can't imagine that Something Awful would
have done well without the $10 account registration fee, and something
like Reddit wouldn't work without karma. Anonymous communities have no
means by which to gatekeep, which is ultimately to their detriment

What do you think?

computer programme fun

2024-09-01T09:23:32+00:00

the 'tree' command for my little tcl utilities collection now pretty
prints, but is still valid data. format is { path { subdirectories }}

example output:

mush {{
mush/people.tcl {}} {
mush/player.tcl {}} {
mush/input.tcl {}} {
mush/notions.tcl {}} {
mush/mush.tcl {}} {
mush/c {{
mush/c/raymath.h {}} {
mush/c/raylib.h {}} {
mush/c/raygui.h {}} {
mush/c/libraylib.a {}} {
mush/c/rl.c {}} {
mush/c/make.tcl {}} {
mush/c/rlgl.h {}} {
mush/c/rl.so {}}}} {
mush/graphics.tcl {}} {
mush/tool.tcl {}} {
mush/tools.txt {}} {
mush/proto.tcl {}} {
mush/event.tcl {}} {
mush/object.tcl {}}}

gikopoi.py

2024-01-15T16:25:28+00:00

There is now a terrible Gikopoi bot I've written based on code from
kafli: you can invoke it with the !help command in the bar.

It has a blackjack and bank plugin.
You can win REAL gikocoins and send them to your friends!

I'm planning to add a !memo function (send a message to someone
offline or AFK and the bot sends them your message when they return)
and also !random / !addquote functions (get or add gikopoi quotes).

What else do you think would be useful? I was thinking the bot could
share youtube metadata when a youtube link is shared, e.g. the title
of the video and its duration. The possibilities are endless...

source: https://github.com/153/giko.py

FOSS Games

2024-01-12T21:45:24+00:00

what is your favorite foss game? cataclysm:dda is pretty good.

stylesheet thread

2024-07-12T22:44:05+00:00

talk about pohon stylesheets here
here are various site features to test
>gtxt
%%spoiler%%

bbs cert expired

2024-07-03T10:34:27+00:00

certificate for pohonbbs is expired 29th of june

It's good to send emails to friends.

2024-01-12T19:32:44+00:00

As life goes on, and we separate from people we cared about before,
it remains a great practice to send emails to old friends every now
and then.

It's not essential AT ALL to make a Facebook / Instagram / Tiktok
/ LinkedIn / whatever to stay in touch with old friends. If anything,
people are more likely to keep their old mail address as trendy
spyware apps come and go.

Equally, it's easier to keep a friend's mail address for long spans
of time than phone numbers -- and the kinds of communications we make
over email tend to be more meaningful than the kinds we may make on
text-adjacent platforms like Whatsapp or Signal, Telegram, etc.

Do you ever send mails to your old pals?
When was the last time you sent a personal email?

If you know any old friends' emails, maybe this thread can serve as
a timely reminder to fire them off a message. Or, maybe it can serve
as inspiration to exchange email addresses with your friends today.

I hope this thread can encourage you to write someone an email,
or save someone's email address if you don't have many. Email is a
great way to maintain friendships over time and distance -- even if
it's "not trendy" it's also not bad! You would be surprised about
how many people would be pleased to get an email that's not spam
from GoogBookBankShopApp and take the time to write a caring,
thoughtful response back to you.

New project: WikiWikiWiki

2024-06-08T18:14:26+00:00

Greetings,

https://wiki.gikopoi.com has been launched.

Source code @ https://github.com/153/wikiwikiwiki