fwiw,, i would make the "custom output for protection" user-controlled rather than admin-controlled.

something along the lines of: touch .hide in $HOME to hide your account from the public listing,, touch .show to show it. admin can set the default.

- Ezra Barrow (She/Her)

August 21, 2020 3:12 AM, jacksonbenete@gmail.com wrote:

Hello there,

Nice to meet you guys. I'm pretty interested in pubnix right know and I still a little overwhelmed since it's decentralized and hard to find about. I'm also very interested in finger and I saw that you guys were working into reviving it.

It's very hard to know finger users though, and as efingerd have custom output for protection, it also prevents to learn about new users to "finger around"...

I was thinking about two things for improve a little the finger "popularity" (in fact for it's easy of use/setup).

I'm thinking about setting a efingerd (or another good alternative) docker, to put a finger daemon up and running already configured in some few commands. And also, about a finger "tel list", pretty much the same as the cat ~tel but for finger username@hostname. Which is to help know "users to follow", for those who want to use finger as a microblogging platform, which I assume might be just a few if not by only myself.

Cheers.

Jack