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Overrun with spam, mainly used for piracy, difficult for regular folks to get on.
by slater 5y ago
Overrun with spam, mainly used for piracy, difficult for regular folks to get on.
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoYup, mostly the last part about the masses. Usenet is still a technically viable forum, but you can't have much of a discussion when everyone's on Reddit and HN.
- u801e 5y agoIt may be feasible to use the API to implement a gateway of sorts to duplicate content of HN or Reddit and post the content in one or more Usenet newsgroups. It's probably against the TOS though.
- jimmyvalmer 5y agoI do precisely that with https://github.com/dickmao/nnreddit https://github.com/dickmao/nnreddit and https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews https://github.com/dickmao/nnhackernews. Edit: I don't replicate content to a Usenet group -- that would be wrong. I just use their APIs to give their content a Usenet look and feel. Sent from nnhackernews