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[Off Topic]Discussing how to have communities without going back to something http/s based

The Doctor drwho at virtadpt.net

Tue Jun 8 18:48:38 BST 2021

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‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐On Monday, June 7th, 2021 at 15:14, easrng <easrng at gmail.com> wrote:

Brass Goggles appears to have Tapatalk support (http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/mobiquo/mobiquo.php) so it's possible to make a non-web viewer.

It appears to be broken, though that might be because it requires additional arguments. Tapatalk's a new one by me.

There's also NNTP/Usenet. IIRC groups can be hosted on their own server or as part of the actual Usenet network.

Easily. The FidoNET protocol took a lot of cues from NNTP. In some locations, NNTP is used under the hood for internal comms (with webapps thatcompletely hide what it really is).

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