Mastodawn

@mason @markmetz "I still miss Usenet." - Usenet needs reviving! As a small contribution to this process, I operate a web interface to non-binary Usenet at https://newsgrouper.org .
#usenet #socialmedia

Newsgrouper: A web interface to Usenet discussion groups

Read and post to Usenet Newsgroups with a simple web interface.

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Mason Loring Bliss 1d ago

@markmetz I still miss Usenet.

Plus side: we still have mailing lists. Not quite as freeform as Usenet, but more topically structured than the Fediverse.

There's probably room for Fediverse clients that can slice up posts topically so I could say "show me rec.arts.int-fiction" and have it show me appropriate things. But for Heaven's sake, not large language models.

I'd have to understand the math more, but would Bayesian classification be compatible with this? I've never read about it being used for an ever-changing set of queries, mostly just static "spam or not".

What would be missing from this of course would be the poster's intent in choosing a newsgroup.

I guess I still just miss Usenet.

#usenet

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tkissing 2d ago

@truls46 Das wäre schade.Ist inn2 noch maintained? Könnte man das #usenet wiederbeleben? Oder hat das #fediverse etwas, was ähnliche themenorientierte Organisierung erlaubt?

Wir haben uns von "Don't be evil" viel zu lange einlullen lassen :(

tkissing 2d ago

Ich war das letzte Mal so um 2008 oder so im #usenet unterwegs. Damals noch mit #hamster als lokalem Server für News und Mail, mit vielen netten Skripten für automatische Signaturen etc. Eigentlicher Server war news.fu-berlin.de wimre. Frontends waren für mich 40tude und Thunderbird

Gibt es de.* noch? Sind da noch Menschen aktiv? Wenn ja, welche Server sind gut und welcher Software stack? (Gerne #linux )

Snoopy 2d ago

Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

A few months ago I threw this question out into the void - “what if you could access the fediverse through your Usenet reader??” and got almost no response. Still, the idea had lodged in my brain and wouldn’t go away so this weekend I caved in and built the thing. Hat tip to the author of the excellent nntpserver package that did all the hard stuff.

I look forward to seeing someone’s screenshots of fediverse posts on a Commodore 64, some day.

This will be released as a part of PieFed 1.7, coming soon.

Colin Macleod 2d ago

RE: https://piefed.social/comment/10637371

Much of Usenet is indeed a wasteland these days, but not all of it. One counterexample would be uk.d-i-y - you can take a quick peep there via https://newsgrouper.org/uk.d-i-y . Another is the group for my preferred programming language - comp.lang.tcl . 😎
#usenet

Rimu 3d ago

Back to the future - Interacting with threadiverse communities through Usenet / NNTP

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1904499/back-to-the-future-interacting-with-threadiverse-communities-through-usenet-nntp

∃∀λ Mar 17

Pluralistic: The online community trilemma

https://programming.dev/post/47347920

robotnet Mar 17

Zu M.Röders Anmerkung zur Abkündigung der #Usenet #News_Server des DFN auf der #dfn_bt fällt mit das Zitat "Usenet ist not the Internet" ein aus "Zen and the Art of the Internet" in der FAQ "what is the Usenet not". https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/34/pg34.txt . So wichtig war das #Usenet mal!
Schon lange denken die Leute das Web wäre das Internet. Junge Leute halten nun Social Media für das Internet oder gar LLMs. Bin alt ;-)

Eric Mar 16

Question entre #torrent et #usenet : pourquoi c'est uniquement le torrent qui est visé publiquement ? Car c'est "gratuit" et plus simple d'usage général(=on installe le logiciel dédié avec ou sans compte et ca run) ?

Sur usenet, si je cherche : "first suse version"
je pourrais retrouver S.u.S.E. Linux 4/94 ?

Je m'y suis jamais intéressé et je suis curieux de l'acharnement sur le torrent vs ce qui serait accessible via useNet