"Terry Roati -> Oli"  wrote:

 TR> The internet was the death of Fidonet, instead of users spending time
 TR> on a BBS reading echos, downloading files and playing games the users
 TR> slowly moved to the internet so Fidonet lost it's user base and the
 TR> expertise it had.

This is like saying other computers were the death of the Amiga. It was the
organization and lack of innovation that killed it, same with Fidonet. And of
course the toxic community only accelerated the decline.

 TR> There is no power in Fidonet, P4 hasn't changed so it's the same as
 TR> when I left it 16 years ago.

I'm not sure what you mean with "no power in Fidonet". Do you believe that
Fidonet is a perfect anarchy and abuse of power never happened? I'm just
reading some mails from 1993 about the coup in R24 - history tells a different
story.

Why do you want to change P4 at all?

 O>> I wonder why other networks do work great without any policy?
 O>> E.g. XMPP, ActivityPub, Matrix, Zot, SIP, Psyc, bittorrent,
 O>> IPFS, ...

 TR> Most other networks are normally run by a one or a small number of
 TR> sysops which works well till the guy at the top goes then it
 TR> collapses, as history has shown. It is easy to criticize Fidonet but
 TR> it managed to connect the whole world and 30,000+ sysops, no other
 TR> net will ever get close to that.

It sounds like you are talking about FTN othernets ...

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