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It's a waste to lose all of the software that was used to connect to usenet. Today there's a small trend to write adapters of popular boards (reddit, lobsters)
by self_awareness 3y ago
It's a waste to lose all of the software that was used to connect to usenet. Today there's a small trend to write adapters of popular boards (reddit, lobsters) to NNTP protocol, so that this old software can be re-used (so that it's possible to browse reddit through an NNTP reader).
- rcarmo 3y agoWhere are those? I'm game, would love to centralise some of those boards in a desktop client.
- self_awareness 3y agoI don't think there is any real user-friendly app ready. But those are some prototypes/ideas: - https://github.com/taviso/nntpit https://github.com/taviso/nntpit (reddit to nntp) - https://gitlab.com/antekone/desugar https://gitlab.com/antekone/desugar (reddit/lobsters to nntp) - https://github.com/nkizz/mop3 https://github.com/nkizz/mop3 (mastodon to pop3) - https://github.com/NattyNarwhal/LobstersNntp https://github.com/NattyNarwhal/LobstersNntp (lobste.rs to nntp) (although reddit gateways probably stopped working after Reddit closed the doors to their API)