It's not perfect by any means, but I discovered an #iOS app for #Lemmy that works on #AppleSilicon Macs. I'm trying #Lemmios, which does have some issues with scrolling and such, but the "compact" view is working quite well for me.

I wish the #Memmy for Lemmy team would patch up the last details needed for #macOS compatibility, but I also need to remember that this is a rather young service. I’m old enough to remember #NNTP and #Gopher. This is leaps and bounds better.

@kito99 I would, but most ISPs have dropped their #NNTP servers in the US

I am here because there was alt.slack before the mastodons ruled the earth.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/
#Slack #history #NNTP

@danwing @danyork @davidgerard Nope. No client I'm aware of that supports threading views or scoring. 🤷

But yes, let's dream!

Somebody needs to write a #ActivityPub to #NNTP Gateway and - boom - we have lots of great clients instantly! 🤓

#Mastodon

😲 I'm back!

https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/
"USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix".

Il Big-8 board "ha riaperto i battenti". Grazie Mario!

#Usenet #Newsgroup #Nntp

> See, because you need an always-on computer in order to really reliably use #decentralized social media
Bruh. #Usenet, #Fidonet and #UUCP (#UUCPnet) beg to differ (no reason you couldn't use #NNCP for Usenet now if #NNTP isn't your thing).

So do #SSB and #retroshare.

That criticism is pretty much specific to #ActivityPub as commonly implemented.

The #Fediverse is more than just ActivityPub and will outlive it.

@NuSkooler Now this has me wanting to get back to the drawing board with my #NNTP #Usenet to #ActivityPub bridge ideas.

#SMTP and #NNTP both allow custom headers, called X-headers. Does #ActivityPub support anything like this?

Antes que las compañías acaparadoras y explotadoras arruinaran el internet con su basura, ya existían varias redes descentralizadas y federadas. De entre las que sobrevivieron esta #usenet, si quieres saber mas de esto? Visita el blog de hispagatos:

Que es Usenet?

https://hispagatos.org/post/que_es_usenet/

También puedes leerlo en la capsula de gemini de hispagatos:

gemini://hispagatos.org/post/que_es_usenet/index.gmi

#usenet #descentralizacion #federacion #nntp #hackers #noticias #news

Gracias a nuestro compa @NerdRat que ha escrito un artículo supercurrado sobre que es "USENET" y "NNTP"
https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/que_es_usenet.md
También hemos actualizado y arreglado algunos errores en el artículo de
cómo usar #USENET y #NNTP
https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/usenet.md

También recordar tenemos ya funcionando el nodo de Usenet
de @hispagatos enlazada / peering con 5 de los nodos más usados
de la moderna USENET, sin binarios, sin mierdas, solo hackers, curiosos, explorando y compartiendo información. #hackers

@publicvoit

Is anybody reading this who would be willing to participate starting/investigating a #gnus backend for mastodon (or, generally, activity pub)?

Also file under: #nntp, #usenet, #emacs.

I'd love to see a #Mastodon client that has features my #Usenet client had a few decades(!) ago:
- scoring based on regex of sender, keywords, ... + adaptive sorting according to scores
- ignore this subthread (replys)
- remember which message I've already seen(!)
- marking my own messages as seen by default
- ...

It's really astonishing that we are losing so many great features over time over and over again.

A Mastodon-to-NNTP-gateway could solve those issues instantly.

#NNTP

@josephholsten @leadore I've had some conversations with a few people about #NNTP, #UUCP, and #Usenet, notably @vga256. But I am unaware of a #Lemmy #Usenet bridge. Do you have a link to an article or technical discussion about the bridge? That sounds awesome!

@leadore I’m really excited at the nerds who are building an #NNTP-#ActivityPub bridge so we can link #Usenet and #Lemmy. What even is the edge of the fediverse then?

@vga256 @KC8JC NNTP over 1200 Baud AFSK #packetradio with AX.25 encapsulated IPv4 is really slow and inefficient, let's move on from 1975 technology ;)

https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/inn/ is a popular #NNTP server software used by a number of large servers that I know a little bit about. Should work well via AREDN/HamWAN/HAMNET as those networks are IPv4-native

@pooserville For the record, I still think not making #ActivityPub primarily #P2P or at least message-oriented with gossiping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol) similar to #Usenet / #NNTP was a mistake.

New post on my #gemini #gemlog related to #nntp and #usenet gemini://rek2.hispagatos.org/posts/2023-07-13-Usenet.gmi enjoy! Happy Hacking https://hispagatos.space/@rek2/110724642542959622

#tomo update for anyone interested in seeing how the sausage is being made with a new decentralized #nntp based better-than #reddit network:

- the server software is a fork of Rocksolid-Light https://github.com/novabbs/rocksolid-light
- the back-end for connecting to the server and reading/writing posts is 100% nntp protocol compatible.
- you can connect to a tomo shard from any newsreader like thunderbird (win/mac/linux), tin, SeaMonkey, NewsTap (iOS) or even classic programs like Forté Agent and Netscape Communicator
- posts written on the tomonet.* discussion group hierarchy are shared across all tomo shards.
- posts written to private groups on your shard, stay only on your shard.

i'm currently rewriting the front-end so users/shard admins/mods can do anything from the web interface, without dropping to a shell. now you can:
- create your own discussion groups
- delete messages, delete groups
- permit/deny access to admin and moderator areas

the big job this week was writing a Roles & Permissions system (RBAC) so group owners, admins and moderators can manage who can read/post, create/delete groups, and so on.

the most important part of this involves running a tomo shard itself. it's running a #BBS in 2023: as a sysop you are responsible for your users' data, dealing with moderation, and carrying (and not carrying) the kinds of groups your users are into. i'm putting a massive amount of care into providing sysops and mods with the front-end tools for making running a shard enjoyable

Ищу nntp-клиента под Android, читать/писать ньюсконференции на своём сервере #nntp #android #usenet

learning that several other decentralized #nntp projects have existed for a few years

reading about the NNTPChan protocol - it uses hashed message id's to produce unique nntp message-id headers across the network. seems like a great idea.

https://github.com/majestrate/nntpchan/blob/master/doc/developer/protocol.md