vga256Mar 4

new tomo dev .plan update

tomo is dead: long live tomo

a month away from tomo gave me time to think about why the project stalled out for such a long time, and where it could go now.

tldr: tomo is getting a reboot as shard-based federated discussion forum. think of each shard like running your own BBS, except that it's linked with every other BBS on the network if you want it to be, with full privacy controls for each forum/topic.

and no more NNTP. it was causing more heartache than it was worth, while adding almost nothing.

read more here (RSS friendly):

https://tomodori.net/#2026-03-04

#fediverse #tomo #bbs #rss #nntp

Show threadsherbangMar 4
@vga256 so ... FidoNet?
Show threadvga256Mar 4
@sherbang yes and no. I wrote a bit about Fido in my early posts
Show threadsherbang
@vga256 yeah, wow, all the way back to the source, nice!
Mar 5 at 6:09amWeb
Show threadvga256Mar 5
@sherbang fido/fidonet was a major influence in designing tomo from the beginning - the interviews with @tomjennings, ben baker, ken kaplan and ryugen fisher in the bbs documentary were really helpful for understanding fido's design