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   Hello Rob!   
      
   ** On Tuesday 26.08.25 - 08:46, you wrote to me:   
      
    RM> Maybe as the Big Social sites get less popular they will   
    RM> make a bit of a comeback.   
      
   Yeah.. the current popular social sites are not really designed     
   for dialog. They mostly seem to attract posts, rants, shares,     
   #tags.   
      
   But apps like Sess, Telegram, Briar, and SimpleX would be     
   smarter systems to use.  They all purport to support privacy.      
   Whereas, fidonet/othernets/FTN, BBSing messages ..are all in-    
   the-clear now.   
      
   In the past, echomail was pretty much "secure" in the sense     
   that content wasn't tracked. Echomail exchanges were direct     
   between two systems via a phone call connection. But now with     
   many BBSes opening up their message areas to the internet and     
   any website visitor, the messages are tracked easily and stored     
   for data-eternity.   
      
   I don't think this form of messaging would gain a significant     
   following to be considered a revived or preferred system.     
   People are leaning towards using their smartphones for     
   "messaging".  Except for Aftershock, and the Tg bridge, there     
   really isn't any other easy way to participate in FTN messaging     
   with a phone.   
      
      
    RM> [...] Then the Global BBS feeds came out where you could   
    RM> talk to people all over the world and it was amazing at   
    RM> the time. These days that wouldn't mean anything to most   
    RM> people.   
      
   I was already familiar with a global outreach with Compuserve,     
   and even newsgroups back in the 90s - it seemed amazing to get     
   read and get replies by people from all over the world.   
      
   Today, a system like Briar can support "groups", so a Briar     
   account can appear to operate like a BBS, albiet the messages     
   are still "chats" - that is, no real sortable Subject - for     
   example - just one long stream of messages. But if people use     
   the "R)eply feature as intended, the messages indent slightly     
   so that you can see which message is related to the parent     
   message.   
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