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On 2024-08-07, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

This may be extremely pessimistic, but I
now automatically expect any new discussion
protocol/platform to be worse than NNTP/Usenet
and not worth looking at. I'd just fear that any
fragmentation due to an attempted incompatible
NNTP replacement would only kill off the little
activity still going on with Usenet.

Ego: the self-referential cancer that eats itself
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On 2024-08-19, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024, Andy K. wrote:

On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 21:43:50 +0200
D wrote:

On Sat, 17 Aug 2024, Andy K. wrote:

On Wed, 7 Aug 2024 14:32:01 -0000 (UTC)
George Musk wrote:

Just a thought experiment:
if you could/had to make something like a NNTP 2.0 (with no need for >>>>> backwards compatibility) and server and client software for it today, what
would it be like?
In terms of specifications, technologies used, user interface, etc.

Not for nothing, but Secure Scuttlebutt is a pretty cool "next gen
NNTP" option.

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

Long time since I heard about it, but doesn't it have scaling problems?

Maybe, but mainly it has discoverability problem. Unless you already
know a community you want to join, it's these days almost impossible
to find some public server/group/whatever.

It doesn't help that there are two concepts now - servers (old) and
rooms (new), and there seems to be a different invite/join process for
each.

I love SSB conceptually, since it's basically like Usenet in its UUCP
beginnings (nodes syncing among each other periodically), but it has
teething problems.

Ahh got it. Maybe time to bring those improvisational UUCP networks back
to life then? Why opt for the copy, when you can get the original! ;)

Just use NNCP instead of UUCP; they almost work the same as a backend.


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