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  • Reddit-NNTP: An RFC 3977 compliant NNTP server frontend for Reddit

    From meff@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 24 01:04:16 2022
    XPost: news.software.nntp

    Hey all,

    I've been working on https://github.com/Koshroy/reddit-nntp for some
    time now and am happy to release it. Reddit-NNTP is an RFC 3977
    compliant NNTP server which supports most of MODE READER. Reddit-NNTP
    fetches posts from Reddit and stores them into a sqlite spool
    database. Newsreaders or other newsservers can point directly at the
    server to fetch groups and articles.

    Feel free to give me feedback if any of you are interested in using my implementation. It's written in Go and only doesn't use pure Go in
    order to use sqlite. It should be simple to build and get running.

    Thanks

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  • From rek2 hispagatos@21:1/5 to meff on Tue Apr 26 18:22:25 2022
    Cool but I think is better to choose open/descentralized fediverse
    platforms like lemmy, lemmy is a federated and libre reddit alike
    network with thousands of users, reason I say this it follows the open
    spirit of the early days and USENET.

    On 2022-04-24, meff <email@example.com> wrote:
    Hey all,

    I've been working on https://github.com/Koshroy/reddit-nntp for some
    time now and am happy to release it. Reddit-NNTP is an RFC 3977
    compliant NNTP server which supports most of MODE READER. Reddit-NNTP
    fetches posts from Reddit and stores them into a sqlite spool
    database. Newsreaders or other newsservers can point directly at the
    server to fetch groups and articles.

    Feel free to give me feedback if any of you are interested in using my implementation. It's written in Go and only doesn't use pure Go in
    order to use sqlite. It should be simple to build and get running.

    Thanks


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  • From meff@21:1/5 to rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid on Tue Apr 26 23:16:46 2022
    On 2022-04-26, rek2 hispagatos <rek2@hispagatos.org.invalid> wrote:
    Cool but I think is better to choose open/descentralized fediverse
    platforms like lemmy, lemmy is a federated and libre reddit alike
    network with thousands of users, reason I say this it follows the open
    spirit of the early days and USENET.

    I'm not discounting the Fediverse, but Usenet isn't the same as the
    Fediverse. Foremost, the Fediverse is a web system and Usenet is
    not. The Fediverse is built around the semantics of HTTPS (and the
    certificate and trust-system mechanics thereof), JSON, and web
    requests. It sends messages over HTTPS requests and doesn't really
    support store-and-forward modes the way newsservers do. Usenet also
    has a very different culture of moderation and the moderator burden
    frequently falls on the user and their kill/scorefile to moderate the experience of Usenet (some may consider this to be a problem others a positive.)

    IMO the Fediverse is a different thing than Usenet. I've long thought
    about bridging the two (building an AP relay to send over Usenet
    articles) to see what that would look like. But Usenet can work as
    long as two computers can exchange bytes. AP and the Fediverse needs a
    lot more structure to work. Nothing against the Fediverse just that I
    think there's room for both.

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  • From Donaldson@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 6 14:54:53 2022
    Interesting.

    How does this compare against https://github.com/taviso/nntpit ? That's
    the method I am currently using.

    Hey all,

    I've been working on https://github.com/Koshroy/reddit-nntp for some
    time now and am happy to release it. Reddit-NNTP is an RFC 3977
    compliant NNTP server which supports most of MODE READER. Reddit-NNTP
    fetches posts from Reddit and stores them into a sqlite spool
    database. Newsreaders or other newsservers can point directly at the
    server to fetch groups and articles.

    Feel free to give me feedback if any of you are interested in using my implementation. It's written in Go and only doesn't use pure Go in
    order to use sqlite. It should be simple to build and get running.

    Thanks

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  • From meff@21:1/5 to Donaldson on Sat May 7 19:24:33 2022
    On 2022-05-06, Donaldson <email@email.com> wrote:
    Interesting.

    How does this compare against https://github.com/taviso/nntpit ? That's
    the method I am currently using.

    Reddit-NNTP does a few things differently:

    1. It fetches data from Reddit and stores it in a local spool. This
    decouples news reading from article fetching.

    2. nntpit is a bit more fast and loose with the RFCs. I've written
    Reddit-NNTP to have good support for RFC 3977. It should be compatible
    with a large number of newsreaders. I've been doing most of my testing
    with slrn and Gnus. Reddit-NNTP lists subreddits/groups in its spool
    with NEWGROUPS.

    3. The reason I went with a local spool with Reddit-NNTP was to
    generate consistent Article IDs. Your newsreader can remember what you
    last read and only fetch new content.

    4. Reddit-NNTP places its subreddits/groups under a hierarchy (by
    default "reddit.") so it plays well with Leafnode. You can combine
    Reddit-NNTP easily with a running Leafnode or other-newsserver install
    and get it as part of your digest.

    Let me know if you have any other questions.

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