#nntp — Public Fediverse posts

@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

More and more #reddit previews stop working these days. Current example: my #RSS #Atom feed aggregator.

I want to emphasize that I've warned about that years ago:

Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in #WebForums Like Reddit, #HN, #Slashdot and for most parts of my arguments even #Lemmy:
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

#publicvoit #decentralization #webforum #NNTP #Usenet #lockin

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

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)

Can somebody with knowledge of C please contribute to https://github.com/taviso/nntpit (#reddit to #NNTP gateway) so that we all can profit from the many, many #newsreader features that #webforums don't have? (scoring, unread/read indicators, various views, speed, ...)

So far, the project does seem to provide read-only views and not posting capabilities. I'd LOVE to see #nntpit becoming stable for general use!