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Re: Gatewaying some Usenet newsgroups with ActivityPub

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Doc O'Leary ,   <droleary.usenet@2023.impossiblystupid.com> wrote:
> Why?  What does it benefit either side?  What makes ActivityPub superior 
> to NNTP?  Why must everything be web-ified?

In my opinion, NNTP is much better. ActivityPub is complicated and messy
and just is not very good (this is true of a lot of W3C specifications).
I dislike this "everything web-ified" modern idea too, which is why I am
still using NNTP.

(I also don't like Discord and Matrix; I use IRC.)

> I've written a Usenet client.  It's not hard.  I've thought of using it to 
> transform messages for use in other apps, but I haven't found any 
> compelling reason to do so.

So have I (it is the one I use, as can be seen by the User-Agent header
of this message).

I have written an extension to send/receive messages on mailing lists
from sourcehut. It may also be possible to write extensions for dealing
with other stuff too, although I have not done so at this time.

-- 
Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.

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