#gnus — Public Fediverse posts

@tusharhero The gnus manual is full of little tidbits like this. Makes reading quite entertaining (and productive, of course).

#gnus #Emacs

Next step, decide between #aerc, #meli or #gnus as a desktop client. Will probably use #thunderbird on mobile

Now I'm also on #Usenet via Eternal September. To my surprise, #Emacs #Gnus was easier to set up than its documentation initially promised...

Checking out #emacs #gnus to read some mail lists via nntp gateway. Load the groups, check out the Summary buffer....hmm, what keybinds are in this map? C-h m...."There are approximately one gazillion commands you can execute in this buffer;"

😅🤣

@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,

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.

@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