#usenet — Public Fediverse posts

@ashwin @minmi @dumpsterqueer

The #Fediverse is a social media system. And when has social media _not_ been political?

I mean, I am old enough to remember #Usenet . There was no shortage of political discussion there. And no shortage of bigotry.

The very _least_ we could do is fight the well-documented bigotry here on the Fediverse in order to make it more welcoming for marginalized groups. I mean, what's the alternative?

Insisting that the Fediverse should be "nonpolitical", which only means "I am comfortable with the politics around here, and am happy to throw marginalized people who do not fit in under the bus"?

@gcvsa There are crazy and intolerant people on Usenet too (which does still operate). However for unmoderated groups no-one has the power to kick you off, and you can block the obnoxious people yourself.
#usenet #socialmedia

@el3ctron Bienvenido, y por-favor leeros las reglas de esta instancia, es una instancia sobre todo #hacker pero también Anarko-Hacker que resuelve sobre las teorías de "Steven Levy" "Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution" y la ética hacker, no creemos en sombreros de colores son invenciones corporativas, nuestro enfoque es en la privacidad, la cultura hacker, el software libre, y promover protocolos nuevos como #gemini #reticulum y viejos como #usenet #gopher

@unuvzonef @ytoqugumy @Anonops @TivYpeg Bienvenidos, y por-favor leeros las reglas de esta instancia, es una instancia sobre todo #hacker pero también Anarko-Hacker que resuelve sobre las teorías de "Steven Levy" "Hackers Heroes of the Computer Revolution" y la ética hacker, no creemos en sombreros de colores son invenciones corporativas, nuestro enfoque es en la privacidad, la cultura hacker, el software libre, y promover protocolos nuevos como #gemini #reticulum y viejos como #usenet #gopher

InfiniDysk: More software for streaming video live from Usenet. Evolution of NzbDav, seems to be a friendly fork?
https://www.infinidysk.com/
#streaming #piracy #usenet #nzb #+

NzbDav: A solution for streaming any pirated media from Usenet to Plex. It's a WebDAV server that integrates to do the downloads and streaming
https://github.com/nzbdav-dev/nzbdav
#download #piracy #usenet #plex #nzb #+

Hey #usenet people. My main Unlimited provider nearly doubled their price this year! I have a block provider as a backup but need something unlimited to be the first server in my setup. Was paying about $35 a year. Anyone have any suggestions they want to DM me?

excited about the Eclipse, in Madrid is 70% that is good enough, some parts of Spain have 100% ! that is a life time event more than a live time, I do not have glasses but I am excited to just be here on the st and walk around when the climax happens, for those of you in Madrid DO NOT LOOK WITH OUT SPECIAL GLASSES #hackers make sure you code something great after! 😆 #eclipse #hackers will be adding more updates on the #usenet astrological newsgroups. https://news.hispagatos.org

Eigentlich fehlt noch der Hashtag
#SummoningDPK

#Amiga #Usenet

Ok, für alle deutschsprachigen #Amiga Nutzer aus dem #Usenet damals die ultimative Glaubensfrage:

:boost_ok:

#Usenet

USENET - NNTP

NNTP es una parte importante de la internet descentralizada, un protocolo nativo (poco a poco voy a ir actulizando esto), la idea es:

Tener un servidor usenet de Hispagatos (ya lo tenemos)
Hacerlo facil para los que amamos las redes/internet/libertad/descentralizacion y trasparencia puedar usar las mismas tecnologias olvidadas por el capital ( ya creando un portal de hispagatos )

https://man.sr.ht/~rek2/Hispagatos-wiki/usenet.md

This is quite old, but still good advice to improve your #shell scripts https://porkmail.org/era/unix/award

#unix #usenet

Episode 100 continues with the big 4 first games like Rogue! If only there was some tortured genre name for these types of games…

Lots of fun correspondence from both Mastodon and emails, including a (slightly edited for time) great voicemail message!

Come for the LotR chiptunes, stay for the maximum entropy!

https://grogpod.zone/2026-07-29-EP102/

#GROGPOD100 #roguelike #moria #hack #larn #omega #retrocomputing #retrogames #usenet #gaming #podcast #ascii #indiegame #indiedev

#hackers IS OUT usenet_reborn is at 1.0.0 !!! 🎉

It now has all the features needed to run as a lite TUI Usenet client. Today I added X-post — forward an article you're reading straight to other newsgroups — which is what it needed to be fully usable for everyday use.

https://crates.io/crates/usenet_reborn
https://sr.ht/~rek2/Usenet_Reborn

#usenet #rustlang #tui #foss #rust #hackerculture #nntp

note: remember also #reticulum as another mesh decentralized network we run now a RRC reticulum relay chat hub

Updated **usenet_reborn**: fixed minor bugs and bumped all crates/libs to the latest stable versions.

More info:
https://git.sr.ht/~rek2/usenet_reborn/refs/0.2.4
https://crates.io/crates/usenet_reborn

Next few days I'll add a missing feature: forward/cross-post an article from one newsgroup to another. For example, from **alt.2600** to **alt.2600.madrid** or **hispatatos.talk**.

#usenet #hackers #hacking #hispagatos #descentralization #rust #code #privacy #fucktheweb #fuckbloatedweb

RE: https://mastodon.social/@yodabytz/116974946520627095

Can’t we just fix #Usenet instead?

EL toot anterior en c4stellano.....

Últimas noticias sobre la #hacker con HOPE en Nueva York 2026 en alt.2600.madrid y alt.2600 alt.2600.hope es.comp.hackers en #USENET

@rek2

@bordfunk

Thanks to you.

If I must pay, I preferer a "god person"....😀
https://www.usenet.org

#market #usenet #newsgroup

Latest news on the #hacker con HOPE in NY 2026 on alt.2600.madrid and alt.2600 alt.2600.hope es.comp.hackers on #USENET

@jarango I'm on the Internet since 1994. (Same month the Netscape Navigator web browser hit the day of light, making the WWW a much better place to browse through.) So yes, I'm ancient.

I've been an avid information worker ever since.

And I never ever subscribed to any #mailinglist or #newsletter.

It would turn my #email process a miserable place to be.

Any organization doing some auto-signup is begging me to extend my killfile, making it impossible to reach me in future.

(#gmane was my dear friend though as I've very much loved the #usenet. And I still think people should re-adapt it as it solved many problems people are having these days.)

#PIM #newsgroups

@bordfunk

Dear Christian,
You’ve really warmed my heart! It took me right back to the 1970s, when I used 300-#baud #modems and #Usenet. A few days ago, I wrote a post on the subject.
I tried your #server, but I only got error messages (perhaps I need to register?). You can see them in the #screenshots I’ve attached.
I use #Firefox and #Thunderbird (for Linux😀)
I’ll wait… and thank you.

Thinking back to the days of 20 years ago when my finger macros just automatically typed `trn` and there was always something new in at least one of the newsgroups I subscribe to.

I subscribe to pretty much the same set of newsgroups now, but they're almost all empty.

#usenet

Amongst the many challenges with the deterioration of traditional web search is the problem of loss of access to usable references. Where we were once able to collect a useful sampling of data and with that, do analysis and synthesis, today we're presented with garbage.

In the past, the challenge was to marshal diverse ideas into a coherent whole. Today, the challenge is to even find one workable source that even vaguely relates to your search.

#enshittification #rss #usenet #llms

1/3 🧵

This listing of alt.fan.* newsgroups from 199? is a provocative reflection of netizens' pop culture at the start of the dotcom boom. (Keep in mind, these were spaces for fandom AND anti-fandom!)

A representative selection from the letter "D":
alt.fan.dan-quayle
alt.fan.devo
alt.fan.dice-man
alt.fan.disney
alt.fan.don-imus
alt.fan.douglas-adams
alt.fan.dr-bronner
alt.fan.dragonlance

https://www.ibiblio.org/usenet-i/hier-s/alt.fan.html
#usenet #internet #internethistory #history