#nntp — Public Fediverse posts

I begynnelsen fanns Arpanet men det växte och 1981 bestod nätverket av 213 anslutna datorer. Snart skulle nätet av datorer bli internationellt och kallas internet. Det centrala protokollet var Network Control Protocol (NCP) som lanserades 1970. NCP bestod av Arpanet Host-to-Host Protocol (AHHP) och Initial Connection Protocol (ICP). Dessutom fanns File Transfer Protocol (FTP) för filhantering och Telnet för fjärrinloggning för att användas via NCP. FTP lanserades 1973 och Telnet redan 1969.

I begynnelsen fanns Arpanet men det växte och 1981 bestod nätverket av 213 anslutna datorer. Snart skulle nätet av datorer bli internationellt och kallas internet. Det centrala protokollet var Network Control Protocol (NCP) som lanserades 1970. NCP bestod av Arpanet Host-to-Host Protocol (AHHP) och Initial Connection Protocol (ICP). Dessutom fanns File Transfer Protocol (FTP) för filhantering och Telnet för fjärrinloggning för att användas via NCP. FTP lanserades 1973 och Telnet redan 1969.

I begynnelsen fanns Arpanet men det växte och 1981 bestod nätverket av 213 anslutna datorer. Snart skulle nätet av datorer bli internationellt och kallas internet. Det centrala protokollet var Network Control Protocol (NCP) som lanserades 1970. NCP bestod av Arpanet Host-to-Host Protocol (AHHP) och Initial Connection Protocol (ICP). Dessutom fanns File Transfer Protocol (FTP) för filhantering och Telnet för fjärrinloggning för att användas via NCP. FTP lanserades 1973 och Telnet redan 1969.

I begynnelsen fanns Arpanet men det växte och 1981 bestod nätverket av 213 anslutna datorer. Snart skulle nätet av datorer bli internationellt och kallas internet. Det centrala protokollet var Network Control Protocol (NCP) som lanserades 1970. NCP bestod av Arpanet Host-to-Host Protocol (AHHP) och Initial Connection Protocol (ICP). Dessutom fanns File Transfer Protocol (FTP) för filhantering och Telnet för fjärrinloggning för att användas via NCP. FTP lanserades 1973 och Telnet redan 1969.

I begynnelsen fanns Arpanet men det växte och 1981 bestod nätverket av 213 anslutna datorer. Snart skulle nätet av datorer bli internationellt och kallas internet. Det centrala protokollet var Network Control Protocol (NCP) som lanserades 1970. NCP bestod av Arpanet Host-to-Host Protocol (AHHP) och Initial Connection Protocol (ICP). Dessutom fanns File Transfer Protocol (FTP) för filhantering och Telnet för fjärrinloggning för att användas via NCP. FTP lanserades 1973 och Telnet redan 1969.

Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

A few months ago I threw this question out into the void - “what if you could access the fediverse through your Usenet reader??” and got almost no response. Still, the idea had lodged in my brain and wouldn’t go away so this weekend I caved in and built the thing. Hat tip to the author of the excellent nntpserver package that did all the hard stuff.

I look forward to seeing someone’s screenshots of fediverse posts on a Commodore 64, some day.

This will be released as a part of PieFed 1.7, coming soon.

Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

https://tarte.nuage-libre.fr/c/technologie/p/264775/back-to-the-future-interacting-with-threadiverse-communities-through-usenet-nntp

Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1904499/back-to-the-future-interacting-with-threadiverse-communities-through-usenet-nntp

new tomo dev .plan update

tomo is dead: long live tomo

a month away from tomo gave me time to think about why the project stalled out for such a long time, and where it could go now.

tldr: tomo is getting a reboot as shard-based federated discussion forum. think of each shard like running your own BBS, except that it's linked with every other BBS on the network if you want it to be, with full privacy controls for each forum/topic.

and no more NNTP. it was causing more heartache than it was worth, while adding almost nothing.

read more here (RSS friendly):

https://tomodori.net/#2026-03-04

#fediverse #tomo #bbs #rss #nntp

@StrawberryWarr Yes! Replace all group #chats with #NNTP.

Proven technology that comes with lots of advantages: freedom of interface choice, many clients available, offline features, community-driven moderation processes, decentralization, speed, includes people with special needs, ...

#PIM #chat #groupchat #discord #Usenet

fuck it. i'm declaring project bankruptcy with rslight-tomo.

😆 😭

after futzing around with tomo's (rslight-based) code for the afternoon, i realized that it's such an ensnarled mess that it's not worth trying to untangle the old rslight code from the tomo code i wrote over the last couple of years

it reminds me a little of the source code for adventure game studio - a game building IDE that is over 20 years old.

at some point open source projects have changed hands so many times that it's like trying to renovate a 300 year old house. the foundation was built in the 16th century by louise, the bedrooms in the 17th by raoul, and the bathrooms in the 18th by edward. you need to run new electrical wiring throughout the house, but none of it was ever built to accommodate conduits in the stone walls.

you don't know why louise, raoul or edward designed things the way they did, and you can't ask them now. but you assume there was some kind of rationale to their decisions, so you work around their messes. it seems ok at first. the wiring runs on top of the stonework, but you've found a way to hide it in the crown moulding. you've got it running dangerously close to the water pipes, and god forbid you ever have to fix a broken wire, because you couldn't use conduit anywhere.

after years of blood, sweat and tears, you've got howl's moving castle. your friends who visit call it quaint, but no one really wants to live there.

that's what happened with RSLight. it was originally written by Florian Amrhein in 1999 until the mid-2000s. then over a decade later, Retro Guy picked it up and began extending those php scripts with his own particular code.

and then i picked it up in 2023, and began trying to rewrite *both* retro guy's and florian's code.

the truth is: louise and raoul and edward never knew what they were doing in the first place. they were all renovators just like me, using their meagre knowledge to solve problems particular to their time and place. the house was never built to accommodate the 21st century.

it's not pretty. and worse, it's not maintainable. other people love howl's castle precisely because they don't have to live there; howl does.

#tomo #nntp #programming

blog post: death's inheritance and the future of tomo

today, tomo appears to be the only fork of the RSLight nntp server that is still alive. so what now?

i'll be honest: once Thom/Retro Guy died, i was very tempted to trash the project and move on. I have a half dozen other neglected development projects and books and a podcast to devote my research time to.

and then I thought about Thom and the thousands of hours of his life that he put into his final project before he passed away. his dedication was infectious. and in 2026, we need decentralized forum software more than ever.

that being said, I sure as hell don't want to be responsible for taking over someone else's open source project. that's almost as bad as adopting their kid. hard pass.
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rest of the post here:
https://tomodori.net

rss here:
https://tomodori.net/rss.xml

screenshot: the tomo interface for the user's private mailbox

#tomo #smallWeb #nntp #usenet #indieWeb

This looks cool, have any mutuals tried it?

#Illuminant: An #ActivityPub server with an #NNTP interface

https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/tree/README.md

#haskell #usenet #netnews

Anybody know of any accessible #nntp clients for #windows? #accessibility #blind #usenet

If you could access your #PieFed
instance using your Usenet client of choice (e.g. Thunderbird), would you?

#nntp #fediverse

Anyone running a text-only #usenet server willing to peer with me? I got a small newssite I had running exclusively via uucp connections, but that's become a bit too fragile, so now I'm looking for #nntp peers.

@fastfinge https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/about/ There is Illuminant, which is not exactly a bridge, but an #ActivityPub server that also talks #nntp

@mastodonmigration @timbray

It would be more accurate to mention NNTP and Usenet, but many these days have never heard of those.

#Usenet #NNTP

Hispagatos 2025: Usenet_Reborn, Cyberpunk Book y más actualizaciones

#hispagatos #usenet #nntp #cyberpunk #hacking #hackers #rust #CTF #2600 #anarchism #anarquismo #decentralization

Hispagatos 2025: El renacimiento de Usenet y más allá

Compañeros, este 2025 ha sido un año intenso para Hispagatos. Ya casi terminando el año, queremos compartir todo lo que hemos logrado con nuestra comunidad de hackers anarquistas. Desde el renacimiento de Usenet 2.0...

https://hispagatos.org/post/hispagatos-2025-updates/

We at #hispagatos revamped our #blog and #gemlog [http|gemini] and posted the #announcement to #usenet check it out! Also created a new entry on it related to most of the #projects we have been working on in #2025 there are more news but this ones are the most relevant!

- https://rocksolid-us.pugleaf.net/groups/hispagatos.talk/thread/1238
- https://hispagatos.org
- gemini://hispagatos.org

Happy #Hacking
ReK2

#hackerculture #hackingisnotacrime #hackers #nntp #smallweb #gemini #gopher

finally managed to get #nntp connections running on my little #usenet server. The snag turned out to be a setting I had turned off specifically because I wanted to have a #uucp-only machine.

Oh well, now some groups (#ttrpg ones that is) update instantly because the single nntp connection I have is @kensanata's campaignwiki.org server.

In the end I took the plunge and decided that maybe having #nntp connections is not all that bad for our #uucp network.

Mostly because despite the beautiful simplicity of the protocol, actually getting uucp to work on modern machines is a whole different matter. It really is made for a dial-up world.

Also we don't actually have all that much traffic on our network to begin with, considering #usenet is kinda... I don't want to write dead, but it if it was a body it might start smelling soon.

Yesterday I work most of the day in implementing #newsgroups #articles #threading support on #UsenetReborn updated the main branch and the image, let me know what you think.

- https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn

#usenet #nntp #rust #programming #tui #decentralization #happyHacking #Hispagatos
Warning: I'm not a developer just a #hacker that works in #infosec and #unix systems that loves to learn as much as I can of everything. So patches with actual good code is welcome #happyHacking

Toot anterior de @rek2

"Usenet Reborn" cliente TUI para Usenet y NNTP en lenguaje Rust, ¡fase alfa!
- https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn/
Ahora que tengo la versión 1.0.1 publicada para mi biblioteca #NNTP llamada "rek2_nntp" (https://crates.io/crates/rek2_nntp), he logrado que el cliente "Usenet Reborn" esté listo para usar, nuevo cliente #usenet en formato #TUI usando bibliotecas #ratatui #rust. No soy experto en Rust, ¡los parches son bienvenidos para ambos proyectos! #hackers #culturahacker #descentralización

**Released rek2_nntp 1.0** a #usenet #nntp #rust library
I still need to polish some things this next month on a 1.0.1
- https://crates.io/crates/rek2_nntp
- https://git.sr.ht/~rek2/rek2_nntp

Hope someone will find it useful, I did got on my older versions still in alpha a bunch of downloads from crates.io I started this because I am also writing a #TUI usenet client and after that I hope to write something for android (this is harder for
me)

#happyHacking #Hacking #hispagatos
Patches welcome using git email
ReK2

It's about time that #Signal is working on features to manage #groupchats with parallel discussions. 😞

It is really a drag when there are multiple threads ongoing at the same time. Although the tech could handle Signal group #chats with more than maybe ten people, the UX prevents me from participating.

The bummer was when we left #Usenet. Almost any issue with online discussions was solved beautifully back then. Then we started to come up with mediocre and primitive alternatives. 🤷

#NNTP

Browsing tilde.club newsgroups with meli on android using termux

(screenshots captured with scrcpy)

#nntp #usenet #newsgroups #meli #tilde #termux

@timpritlove As expected by me, also #YouTube #comments are written by a tiny minority if this survey is meaningful of some sort. That is a common pattern.

I also don't think that more people should interact on platforms like that: https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

Go, learn how to set up your own #blog and what #POSSE, #PESOS, #RSS and #Atom stand for. 😉

#publicvoit #decentralization #gatedcommunity #megacorp #cloud #NNTP

@pedro #Usenet is using a rather old (but very cool) protocol: #NNTP

It had its high time approx. 90s to mid 00s. I *very* much enjoyed it.

It ticks all the boxes when it comes to #federation and freedom of interface: a number of web-based services, CLI tools like #slrn (mine), #Thunderbird and other GUI-tools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

I hope it'll get popular again so that people who care could forget all web-based #forums including #lemmy:
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

#webforums #publicvoit

@mos_8502 I very much welcome a revival of the #Usenet!

This is my preferred fall-back, when #reddit, #HN, #Slashdot and others finally aren't useable any more.

Maybe I'll even think of switching my decade-old (but very fine) #slrn setup to Gnus or another #Emacs-based workflow if I can find out how to sync my state across multiple machines... 🤔

Related: https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

#NNTP

I just finished installing #INN2 for our #hispagatos #usenet #nntp server, working now on adding #peers @hispagatos subscriptions are now closed until I finish the peering and write some tools for it.

@randomgeek @lmorchard @genehack I remember back about 15 years ago I wrote a hacky #RSS to #NNTP daemon so I could read my #blog subscriptions in Microsoft #Entourage. (Entourage was a terrible newsreader, but RSS is unicast and not threaded so it didn’t matter.)

Apparently #rsshub supports #telegram [1]. So some people have been routing public channels to gwene.org, and seems so can you.
#nntp #rss

[1]: https://docs.rsshub.app/en/social-media.html#telegram

A good recent article on #usenet on #linux https://www.maketecheasier.com/better-usenet-readers-for-linux/ #nntp #uunet #decentralize #HackerCulture #alt.2600 #alt.cypherpunks #comp.infosystems.gemini #alt.com.os.linux #alt.anonymous

@craigbro @terhechte I'd prefer a general foo-to-NNTP gateway for #reddit #Mastodon and such services.

This way, not only users of #GNUS would profit!

#NNTP #Usenet #Newsgroups #slrn #Thunderbird

Realizing after I posted this that it is now a Moral Imperative for me to add hyperlinking for all #IETF #RFC1738 URI schemes to #Mastodon, especially news and nntp. If they won’t accept my pull request this is worth a fork.
#FTP #Gopher #Usenet #NNTP #telnet #WAIS #Prospero (hell yeah, Prospero https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4157)

https://www.aioe.org/ Is another #usenet #nntp free/public server that resides in Europe, is as good as http://www.eternal-september.org/ a good cli GNU/Linux client #slrn recomended groups: comp.infosystems.gemini comp.lang.c alt.2600 alt.2600.hope comp.os.linux.security I'm working to add comp.lang.go and comp.lang.rust (this a bit after)