On 2023-07-09, rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:

This will be great, I am the admin of a mastodon server hispagatos.space
and I use nntp/usenet on a daily basics, I think lemmy(also part of the fediverse ) that is focus on groups like reddit, will be easier to
gateway <=> both ways.

search for "lemmy fediverse"

On 2023-07-08, Julien ÉLIE <iulius@nom-de-mon-site.com.invalid> wrote:

Hi all,

Following an idea recently proposed by Gérald Niel (a contributor in
fr.*) and the comparison to the Fediverse made by Rayner Lucas and
Tristan Miller in a recent video, couldn't we work out a way to gateway
Usenet newsgroups with the Fediverse, using the ActivityPub protocol?

https://activitypub.rocks/

The Actor could be a newsgroup. Usenet articles posted to gatewayed
newsgroups could be turned into a Note in ActivityPub, and received
responses turned into an article into the newsgroup.

Maybe we would need the presence of a dedicated header field to consider
an individual as an Actor, as its username needs being unique and may
not be derived from only Injection-Info data (as a server name can
change and a user can migrate to another server). The messages would
then need being signed to prevent forgeries.
It is more complex to do, so an Actor could only be a newsgroup to begin
with.


Just for opening the discussion about a possible usefulness of such a
gateway. Seems like it will grow in importance these next years!

I'd like the opposite. A Mastodon client<->NNTP spool, like NNTPIT.
As I try to use Usenet on a weekly basis, it would be the best offline setup ever.

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rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> writes:

I would like the reverse. Mastodon->NNTP, so I could see the threaded
conversations in NNTP, and maybe with images being uuencoded.

Also, all the content would be stored in my HD as slrnpull would work
as always.

There was something like that for Reddit with NNTPit.

I will really be interested in this, one way, two ways or the best
solution will be to choose in the config how we want posts to flow.

I think the best fediverse service to run with usenet is LEMMY is
threaded, group, and posts.

Since folks are talking about gatewaying Netnews into another medium, just wanted to make sure that everyone has seen this. Back when I was doing a
lot of active gatewaying, I tried to capture some of the critical
principles, although it got edited down a lot compared to all the things
that could be said about gatewaying.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5537#section-3.10

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I'd like the opposite. A Mastodon client<->NNTP spool, like NNTPIT.
As I try to use Usenet on a weekly basis, it would be the best offline setup ever.

The ideal will be to have both ways and the bot admin to choose.

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- [https|gemini]://2600.Madrid - https://hispagatos.space/@rek2
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