Schleuder is an encrypting mailing list manager with remailing-capabilities. Subscribers can communicate encrypted (and pseudonymously) among themselves, receive emails from non-subscribers and send emails to non-subscribers via the list.
Schleuder aims to be robust, flexible, and internationalized. It also provides an API to be used with schleuder-cli and/or schleuder-web.
I see questions about chat, communication, and forum solutions often enough that I figure I should write a descriptive post of several options to keep around for recycling. Since I don't know your exact needs I will describe three options here. Two options are very modern and has a lot of features and the third is very retro and simple text-based forum software with some cool privacy and federation features.
Delta Chat is a email-based chat app. I can use chatmail servers or email servers. It is end-to-end encrypted. (https://delta.chat/en/). If your correspondents have POP/IMAP/SMTP email accounts they can use DeltaChat.
Delta Chat supports group chats and in-chat apps that you can create. It also now supports audio/video calls however they require using a link-based service.
If you want video and audio calls through your own XMPP server, or just private chat, XMPP is the way to go. Movim is a very mature server application for managing a social and chat network based on XMPP protocol. (https://movim.eu/) Movim allows you to federate with other servers similar to how Mastodon servers federate, and it has more features not available in Mastodon, including video conferencing.
Movim has chat, blogs, chat rooms, and even screen sharing support.
If you want a public readable text-based forum without video or audio calls then Rocksolid Light is an option.
Rocksolid Light is a NNTP server with a web forum front end: https://novabbs.org. You can run a private or public node, and even a private or public federated network.
Rocksolid Light has several themes included in the distribution. Here is the same server software running with a very different front end theme: https://news.octade.net (username: 'guest', password is 'guest123' reversed)
You don't have to federate your Rocksolid Light server, but it you want you can federate it. If you federate it, you can send encrypted BBS mail messages between users on different domains. You can also compose encrypted PGP/Mime messages in a newsreader and post them encrypted to a newsgroup for that purpose, so your encryption keys don't have to reside on the server.
The bonus with NNTP is that users can read and post using a dedicated newsreader client that is threaded and has filtering and very compact message threading. You can also download all new messages at once and then read them and write the replies while offline.
Movim is a very highly developed option that includes everything including the kitchen sink, so if you want to grow into audio and video conferencing and federate blogs, it is a superior option. Movim has a very modern interface compared to Rocksolid Light. The advantage of Rocksolid Light is its old-timey simplicity for text-based discussion threads.
Find the nearest lake or large pond that has a stream flowing into it. Go the the point where the stream flows into the body of water, then travel a couple hundred yards upstream and set it right next to the water's edge there and walk away.
This is also a good environ to release captured varmints, albeit it must be done in an area far from residential housing--such as a wilderness preserve or large state park.
It looks delicious. How soon can you ship some to me? ;)
I would mix that seitan with a bit of sausage and pan fry it crispy on the outside then drizzle with maple syrup and serve with a couple of over-easy eggs.
Your injection of a pointless racial slur is the digital equivalent of standing in front of a packed auditorium and farting into the microphone. You deserve the stinky microphone award.
Your anti-melanist joke is not edgy or cool. It is just dumb. But you obviously don't care, as long as you can broker attention from it.
There is a better way to live; common courtesy; the golden rule. Look into that.
Then there is Claws-Mail, which is under heavy active development with a community of users, patchers and bug reporters staying on top of it like white on rice. It is also very light-weight compared to Thunderbird.
I like the Thunderbird interface. I hate the Thunderbird configuration and storage backends. Claws uses good old MH and so does Balsa.
If you choose Claws it also has NNTP reading built in. Balsa has no NNTP functionality.
I use snac2 with tut command-line client and my web browser. SNAC is currently my only gateway into the Fediverse. It seems to work very well.
I'm currently reading and interacting with a total over 1300 followers and followees, using tag filtering in tut, without any problems. This is a efficient power-user way to rip through posts and filter out what I'm not interested in, so I can find useful and relevant information from thousands of posts per day really quickly.
When I want to see an image in context I'll open the link in the web browser. I like it this way since I can limit my exposure to images, which sometimes turn out to be unsavory. Surprise, right?
I recommend you give it a spin. The backend proxy setup is about the same as if you were going to install Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc., so if you don't like it you can just put one of those other bloated beasts on the proxy port and call it a day. ;)
1. ActivityPub (Mastodon, this server) 2. Preprints / TechRXIV / Zenodo / Figshare, etc. 3. NNTP / Usenet 4. Static Web Site 5. Blog 6. BlueSky 7. Archive.org 8. PHP Blog / Wordpress / Blogger 9. P2P network(s) 10 ... ??? Still working out the elsewhere(s) and how and whyfor.
The Internet is so full of disparate platforms and protocols that I am almost tempted to just manage a static website like in the good old days of web 1.0 or even web 1/2 and forget about everything else except that and the Internet Archive and Usenet.
I miss the old days where one could put up a static site and push a link and description into a chat room or forum and watch the site get hammered for fifteen minutes. Twenty years ago I ran a rant site that got hundreds of visits per day and I was quite happy with that.
Nowadays there is so much going on that even 1000 real human page views in a month is sometimes too much to expect. Why would anyone want to look at my silly essays or PDF files when every day is Caturday or Saturdog with infinite memes and endless rage outlets? Why read about my strange musings and puzzles when there are endless memes about the empire and the endless bogeymen out to eat us all?
Yet I cast my runes out upon the rivers ether anyway; just in case someone seeks to get high on a supply of digits.
I recall that friendica has the option disable_federation in the config settings.
I realized that with snac, I can run a script daemon:
1. Use inotifywatch to check incoming objects; 2. Dump the new object JSON to detect requests from foreign domains; 3. run the 'snack block' command on the found domain; 4. Delete the incoming object; 5. Sanitize any generated notifications.
This should all happen so quickly that local users should never notice it.
So any attempt to communicate in either direction can be automatically detected on first blush, then the remote domain blocked.
It's a hack, but it should work.
Another question: what about a wildcard character in the 'snac block' command?
I'm not going to try it on this public instance because I'm afraid of some kind of expansion wrecking things. Does anyone know if that would do anything weird?
Name: Byrl Raze Buckbriar (call me Raze).About: Underage curmudgeon and expert in Murphy's Law. I grew grouchy before over the hill was a thing. Neither 'glass half empty' nor 'glass half full.' I want the whole tankard. Speak not with words. Speak with work product. I enjoy crypto, ciphers, puzzles, riddles, and wordplay.Site: Cryptography project site. (https://octade.net)Publications: https://octade.net/publications.htmlORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5144-3278Netnews: Find me on #Usenet in #Newsgroup alt.rhubarb.Git: https://codeberg.org/OCTADEKeyoxide1: https://keyoxide.org/0CF7084CF97B85F2ABF97010C6663A42C56F5F0EKeyoxide2: https://keyoxide.org/B9B2A8EC2C4B20D2011CFEAA07E4A7FFF6585E8FBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/octade.bsky.socialHackerNews: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=OCTADE#bible #crypto #cryptography #cryptology #ciphers #conlang #retro #bash #pascal #random #usenet #simplicity #encryption #privacy #linux #bsd #hacking #poetry #math #writing #research #tinker