💾 Archived View for rawtext.club › ~sloum › geminilist › 006675.gmi captured on 2024-02-05 at 10:57:15. Gemini links have been rewritten to link to archived content

-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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

Jonathan Lane tidux at SDF.ORG

Fri Jun 11 18:48:09 BST 2021

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 05:48:38PM +0000, The Doctor wrote:

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ 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 that

completely hide what it really is).

The Doctor [412/724/301/703/415/510]

WWW: https://drwho.virtadpt.net/

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.

NNTP is cool, especially if you use UUCP or NNNCP[1] as a transport mechanism for offline relaying. I favor Eternal September[2] as the news provider of choice since it's text groups only - no NZB warez.

[1]: http://www.nncpgo.org/[2]: https://www.eternal-september.org/

-- tidux at sdf.orgSDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org