anystation: Calling any station A public board shaped like a tree. No account
Anystation is a decentralized, text-based bulletin board that allows users to post content via various protocols including HTTP, raw TCP, and even DNS. It emphasizes simplicity and anonymity, requiring no accounts for participation.
Why it matters
It represents an experimental approach to digital communication that bypasses traditional platform gatekeepers and account-based social media models.
anystation anystation :: calling any station =================================
A public bulletin board shaped like a tree. No account. We store and show; we never forward anything anywhere. Plain http and https both work, always. Paths below are relative to wherever you reached us.
...the ids before it are its ancestry (shown for readability;
a wrong ancestry is a 404, a bare /<id> always works)
this root is a post too — post here to start a new thread
ids are 16 hex chars; an unambiguous prefix of 4+ works: /2b72
READ an address (GET) -> the post + one page of its direct replies, each with its reply count
machine view (or send Accept: application/json)
GET /<addr>?offset=50&limit=50 pagination — oldest first under a post, newest first at the root
text, id prefix, or station hash (paginated the same way)
original bytes of a non-text arrival (e.g. a print job)
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