#gnus — Public Fediverse posts

@paniash @oantolin I’ve been using #emacs #gnus for decades and contributed code to it. It’s a great experience and will work with gmail for instance. It has a ridiculous amount of features.

Sending e-mail takes seconds so it’s not particularly annoying that it happens in the main thread.

People have been talking about using the Emacs threads for parallelizing the article fetch, threading, scoring, and sorting for years but no one has done the work. That first time delay (a few seconds for larger groups, can be a minute or more for huge groups) may annoy you if you value performance very highly but I don’t think it’s particularly bad. It’s worth trying,

@oantolin I use both manual and adaptive scoring to manage large email volumes very effectively. The defaults for adaptive scoring are usually okay, at least to start with. Give it a shot. It doesn't affect the actual emails at all [*], only the order in which they are presented.

[*] Edit: not quite true as you need to be careful with your settings for expiring articles in case a low score leads to an article being expired.

#gnus #Emacs

Should I look into scoring emails with #Emacs #GNUS? I think I want to see all emails (emails are all I use GNUS for at the moment), but wouldn't mind seeing the good ones first. What experiences have people had with scoring?

Completing-read on all URLs from existing post including article link?

Gnus does this via `w` (gnus-summary-browse-url) in article buffer.

Does elfeed show more details for a feed? (i mean metadata)
One thing I shifted to gnus (with feedbase) was unified look for feeds and email and more info on `t` (gnus-summary-toggle-header)

#gnus

True.
Even I was amazed at spur of so many commits (minad's maintenance storm).
I thinking if I should move from #gnus to #elfeed 🤔

@paniash

IIRC @publicvoit published something about following feeds using Gnus. I used to do that. The sticking point is that Emacs will hang while Gnus waits for a feed that may or may not connect or provide its data. elfeed was better about that, but I missed Gnus' adaptive scoring. I'd written an elfeed adaptive scoring package, but was never thrilled about using a separate package for feeds. So I'm giving Gnus and nnrss and nnatom another try.

#emacs #gnus

Browsing URLs from Gnus Summary buffer https://davemq.github.io/emacs/gnus/url/2026/04/29/visiting-urls-from-gnus-summary.html

#emacs #gnus

@me What version of #Emacs? What version of #Gnus? Maybe nnatom isn't included in your version.

@teledyn @shojiwax

> ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all
> appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it
> says until you click it.

If you use gnus, you can do something about this. See below.

> The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs
> #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.

It is feasible, just. If you're willing to hack a little, check out my blog post:

https://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucecesf/blog/20250812.html

I have an update to one of the functions described there which I will blog about soon (hopefully) but contact me should you wish to see the update sooner.

@shojiwax

two things come to mind:

- You are in a reader, you cannot interact with any of those accounts, only read them, perhaps search.
- ActivityPub has no notion of 'Title' so mastodon posts will all appear in the summary as just the date and time, no hint what it says until you click it.

The second point is interface. For me it was trying to use #Emacs #Gnus to read early Fediverse, and it wasn't feasible.

On the first point, the trouble I have with my Tumblr blog is the Nag-Wall: you can read my post, but as you follow a thread you are tossed out. My teledyn.tumblr.com/rss on the other hand, is fully public, but of course you cannot interact, but you can read it!

I was hoping surf-social was doing the opposite: turning RSS feeds into pseudo-Fediverse feeds to read via any app.

I almost exclusively use the GNUS command gnus-summary-move-article to mark messages as spam. The default keybinding for this is wonderfully mnemonic: `B m` for bowel movement.

#Emacs #gnus

Ah, the lengths I go to just to be able to read everything (not just email) via Emacs gnus! 🤔

I subscribe to RSS feeds for individual mastodon (and others) users and a variety of hashtags (guess which ones? 😉). I have created a virtual gnus group which brings together articles from all my RSS groups (regex pattern "^nnrss:.*"). Now when I visit that virtual group, I get the benefits of *adaptive scoring* for the accounts and hashtags in the fediverse! Those toots I am most likely to be interested in appear first in the virtual group and those that I am least likely to be interested in reading are at the bottom with some already marked as read due to a low score.

So my **algorithm** for the fediverse is adaptive scoring as provided by gnus. 😀

#gnus #Emacs #fediverse

Oops. I forgot to transfer .authinfo to my new computer.I can't send email with #emacs #gnus until I get it.I, because I don't remember my passwords.I had to resort to visiting gmail.com in #chrome, which felt yucky.#firefox #icecat refused the yuckiness.#guix #gmail #email #linux

I can't believe it took me until today to realise:

If you read a plaintext email in #gnus and that email contains a string that looks like a reference to a unix #manpage -- e.g. "find(1)" -- gnus renders it as a hyperlink to the actual manpage on your disk.

I've been experimenting with #eca on #emacs and managed to make a start on one of my TODO's which was make a useful #gnus #transient interface for me. It did have some trouble as I had to keep reporting runtime failures for fixing. But you can help by exposing tools to the LLM and giving more context: https://github.com/stsquad/my-emacs-stuff/commit/2719f81ffe3cd7a9e5d757ab593712b3f669c15f

Anyway the result is serviceable although I do need to give it a human pass: https://github.com/stsquad/my-emacs-stuff/blob/f18e388f055ae3fdd89f90c424857a36da9ada74/my-gnus.el

Hey #Emacs folks of the Fediverse,

The “Accept” and “Decline” buttons in article mode for ‘text/calendar’ MIME parts are great but #Gnus-specific and do no work with #mu4e: ‘gnus-icalendar-send-buffer-by-mail’ assumes the existence of a ‘*Summary*’ buffer.

Any known solution to this?

Quickie Introduction!

I'm zororg.

- #OnePiece fan
- #emacs user, its my personal development environment and more..
- #orgmode lets me be organized and have my way
- #Nixos btw, simple config using #niri and styled via #stylix

- Am a postgraduate #bioinformatics student lurking into coding, and integrating AI ML with biological data

To the techy side, I prefer reading blogs via #rss feeds in #gnus emacs.