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I still stubbornly hope that one of these silicone valley boys will "invent" USENET, and package it up nicely for the masses. That'd be cool.
by darau1 3y ago
I still stubbornly hope that one of these silicone valley boys will "invent" USENET, and package it up nicely for the masses. That'd be cool.
- throwaway847t 3y agoSeveral boards use open source software, so in theory one could develop a "bridge" to Mastodon, Slack, Discord or something similar.
- dsr_ 3y agohttps://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed README: DFeed is: an NNTP client a mailing list archive a forum-like web interface an ATOM aggregator an IRC bot
- kmeisthax 3y agoThey should add in Matrix, Mastodon, and Lemmy support for good measure :P
- mavhc 3y agoThat seems to turn usenet into a forum
- dsr_ 3y agoIt's a multilegged bridge: any of the two-way methods are views and updates into the same dataset.
- jdporter 3y agolooks cool, but D specific. how easy would it be to generalize this?
- dsr_ 3y agoIt's written in D, and it's used to host the D forums, but it's open source, so you can run your own and pick the topics you like.
- lscharen 3y agoThis guy just (like a few weeks ago) started to put together a decentralized newsgroup toolset based on the NNTP protocol. https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110609250159276517 https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/110609250159276517
- playingalong 3y agoSounds like a job for Apple Computers.