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   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   (bridGEing)   
      
   On 2026/2/8 5:14:32, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:   
      
   []   
      
   > If someone (maybe a student from IT) could write bridges or gateways to   
   > sync Usenet with modern social networks like Facebook, Threads, Reddit,   
   > etc!! It isn't difficult, right? Because Echomail of Fidonet did it!! :)   
   >   
   >   
   Yes, I'd like to see that too - and it ought to be an interesting   
   project for a newcomer, and/or someone working with one of the AIs.   
      
   However, I suspect the problem is administrative rather than technical.   
   Usenet mostly doesn't "belong" to anyone: granted, the _servers_ do, but   
   the content is mostly free. Whereas most other "social media" _does_   
   _belong_ to someone - Meta, Google, or whoever - and they like to   
   control both content (which, granted, they mostly do rather loosely,   
   unless forced by legislation [and often not properly even then]), and   
   who can connect/post, which they control more tightly. Basically,   
   they're not going to allow existing usenet servers - carrying posts from   
   anywhere and everywhere - to relay onto their services. They _might_ be   
   willing to let such services _take_ posts from their users, but one-way   
   connections to usenet aren't much use. (They've existed before: there   
   was one inside - Netscape was it? - with a rather idiosyncratic sysop;   
   that had some "leakage" to usenet. And even Google Groups, when it was   
   working, had a rather dodgy connection to real usenet.)   
      
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   So, Heresy be damned (well, it would be, wouldn't it?).   
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