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by jonhohle 1402 days ago
> A protocol will be developed for smaller interest groups to form larger common-interest federations.

How I wish this existed. Something like BBS and online forums, with the ability to create private channels with E2E encryption.

There’s probably no commercial viability, but the idea of a common interface for communities sounds awesome.
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anthk 1402 days ago
Private tildes (public Unix machines) with a federated Usenet service do exist. For private "channels", inner mail list with GPG integrated into Mutt. Solved.

https://tilde.club/

They have Usenet, mail, IRC and some sort of local (for use inside a single a server) and federated (the message from a user it's spread across all the federation) BBS'.

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