Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: news@zzo38computer.org.invalid Newsgroups: news.software.nntp, news.misc Subject: Re: Gatewaying some Usenet newsgroups with ActivityPub Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:02:27 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <1688921128.bystand@zzo38computer.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="3faaf4de71c07df32bb246ecaf5a1e33"; logging-data="2303913"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hgAxtWi68PkywXU3AL50l" User-Agent: bystand/1.3.0pre1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zmM9UF843PoC70kELyj5J84j+os= Xref: csiph.com news.software.nntp:9860 news.misc:1301 Doc O'Leary , 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.