This solves the problem that Usenet has with ISP's dropping the alt hierarchy for example. Using IPFS also deals with the hurdle of actually hosting the News servers.
I wonder how it will deal with the inevitable spam and csam.
Still, I'm following this with interest.
Aether was interesting, but it's many tcp connections chocked my consumer grade modem to death, which made it impossible to keep my node online. It was a legit cool project. I wonder if the #radio group I started still exists on it...
¹ Which is among, of course, the many other things I don't understand about them.
So basically the same reasons as any other undesirable or "illegal" content being found publicly.
From what I have read, it's to share and / or (worse) collaborate. A distant example that I recall was a couple in US that sold their 12 year old child in marriage to an adult (the legal marriageable age, with parental consent, in MA and NH is 12 years old).
I'm thinking a modern Usenet would need something like ad blocker lists - volunteer run filter(s) that you choose to subscribe to.
This would be most useful if they're maintained per-category, by the people who frequent those categories. So then each filter list has "moderators" who can add stuff to it, the people who frequent a category usually subscribe to its most popular filter list, but nobody is required to.
Then because it's community-moderated and non-centralized you don't get the same problems with you do with email spam filtering where people will try to get their competitors' non-spam senders added to the global spam filter list.
This thing is extremely minimalist. A little bit silly to be talking about adding Markdown, antispam or privacy support when it uses $EDITOR for viewing/authoring posts, and the DB is world writeable...
Personally I think this is a lot of fun, it's the first project that has actually motivated me to install IPFS (which I thought would be much harder). It is in the vein of something like SDF where the retro interface might attract the right kind of people. I hope the author keeps working on it and if I knew Go I might contribute :)
I've went thru what I thought were the default tutorials and... nothing. Made me feel like the docs were leaving something out.
On paper it would be a useful tool to add to my toolbox. Someday...
Perhaps with something like ipfs a single mountpoint could be exposed and allow replicated data to be retained?
The key word here is "replicated" - as in a certainty that the data exists on more than one physical storage device.
I'm spitballing and this isn't necessarily directed at the parent of this comment.
[1]: https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84/issues/13
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: hello world
Newsgroup: misc.linux
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Yes. Altilunium was me. After i saw the HN thread about superhighway84, i can't wait to try it by myself. Clone the repo, install the IPFS, "go build .", then i found that issue. I solved that issue by changing zap.NewProductionConfig() to zap.NewProduction(), then i "disabled" the whole config module, switching it temporarily by using hardcode configuration. Now, it's finally working. New notepad.exe window will be spawned whenever i opened a new article.
But i found a new problem. The TUI is broken whenever a new notepad.exe window is spawned. To solve it, i make a new thread by using goroutine to "fork" the current process, so it could spawn the notepad.exe safely.
Reading a thread : Ok
Replying a thread : Ok
Creating a new thread : ((I'm currently testing it right now)
On Tue Dec 28 22:41:47 2021 mrus@cbrspc7 wrote:
> Oh hey, that's awesome! :-D There's an open issue on that rn. Will happily accept PRs if you'd like to. Don't have a Windows computer around to test, though.
On Tue Dec 28 22:36:16 2021 nya wrote:
> Finally.. After tweaking the source code, now i can run it from Windows.. ^^
But since Usenet lost its popularity there's very little NNTP client software available now.
A shame.
One newsgroup I recommend is `comp.sys.raspberry-pi`. It has a pretty high SNR and is quite active, especially in comparison to some other groups on Usenet.
I hadn't heard this term before for upvote/downvote wars (and associated groupthink/monoculture), but I think it's a good one.
Usenet is quite awesome conceptually. It's a much better solution than mailing lists for large group discussions, and obviously better than all proprietary walled garden forums.
software minimalism x vaporwave
And it's not just empty nostalgia. A text interface should be lightning fast. Hit a button, next screen repaint reacts. The ultimate retort to all the 5mb websites full of dropped frames, drop shadows and jank.
Solidity developers are already out here counting every instruction. Maybe what's old is new.
A better term might be “blockchain internet”?
Reddit and Hacker News are centralized. Usenet was decentralized, the usenet servers were run by various companies (many different ISPs across the globe) and they synced up with each other via a p2p protocol.
Perhaps you’re thinking of efficiency in terms of screen/white space or CLI workflows over GUI workflows.
One troll in a community of 200 has an outsized impact.
If it's just OrbitDB, you could probably put together your own UX to view it.
I'm off to read about it. ...the basic idea on the main page is super attractive.
That said, this looks really cool. I like it integrates with your own editor.
That said, Chrome supports them both. here's cañon.com (which is just a parked site): http://xn--caon-hqa.com/ There is also http://xn--ms-mia.com/ (más.com) which redirects.
I know Chrome has done some stuff to prevent problems and understand when people just make the easy choice and show the punycode though.
