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  • Illuminant - A NNTP-based Fediverse Server

    From Byrl Raze Buckbriar@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 27 10:18:05 2025
    XPost: news.software.misc, alt.2600

    Illuminant - A NNTP-based Fediverse Server

    This is cool.

    It is a Fediverse server you can use with a newsreader client like Thunderbird.

    Demo: https://illuminant.asjo.org/
    Profile: https://illuminant.asjo.org/user/asjo
    Source: https://koldfront.dk/git/illuminant/

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  • From yeti@21:1/5 to Ross Finlayson on Sun Mar 9 15:26:16 2025
    Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote:

    How about the other way around, surfacing usenet
    onto these aggregators/distributors?

    Better enlarge the moat between global noise and Usenet and please don't
    forget to add poisonous snakes and alligators! o;-)

    --
    Fact checking died. Now we can call Trump smart without fearing
    consequences?

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  • From D@21:1/5 to Ross Finlayson on Sun Mar 9 16:08:46 2025
    On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 07:25:18 -0700, Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 02/28/2025 03:56 PM, Doc O'Leary wrote:
    For your reference, records indicate that
    snip
    I'm not even sure *how* anyone without an account on the server already
    could begin to try it out. I, too, am not sure the gateway functions like >> any Usenet user would expect. To my thinking, the "groups" should be
    based on hashtags, not the user's info. But I suppose that does properly
    reflect the one dimensional nature of social media.

    How about the other way around, surfacing usenet
    onto these aggregators/distributors?

    social media is moderated . . . seems doubtful any of them could tolerate unmoderated usenet newsgroups, unless their news feeds were restricted to
    the several "triggerhappy" servers that routinely issue and accept nocems, cancels, etc. (bleachbot, usenet.ovh, e-s, pasdenom, chmurka) in order to impose their own fiats of newsgroup moderation in lieu of free expression

    far worse is the usenet troll farm, which would devour these social media
    buffs without pity or mercy . . . unmoderated usenet is an acquired skill

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  • From Doc O'Leary ,@21:1/5 to Ross Finlayson on Tue Mar 11 16:49:38 2025
    For your reference, records indicate that
    Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote:

    How about the other way around, surfacing usenet
    onto these aggregators/distributors?

    I’m about as interested in social media leeches as I am in “AI” leeches. If Google Groups taught us anything, it’s that people who are only
    interested in picking Usenet’s bones clean should *not* be thought of as friends.

    --
    "Also . . . I can kill you with my brain."
    River Tam, Trash, Firefly

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  • From D@21:1/5 to droleary.usenet@2023.impossiblystup on Tue Mar 11 19:01:26 2025
    On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:49:38 -0000 (UTC), Doc O'Leary , <droleary.usenet@2023.impossiblystupid.com> wrote:
    For your reference, records indicate that
    Ross Finlayson <ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com> wrote:
    How about the other way around, surfacing usenet
    onto these aggregators/distributors?

    I'm about as interested in social media leeches as I am in "AI" leeches.
    If Google Groups taught us anything, it's that people who are only
    interested in picking Usenet's bones clean should *not* be thought of as >friends.

    for three decades, eternal september's troll farm have fattened up
    the calf with their toxic delights . . . let them dine sumptuously

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