XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 29 Aug 2024, yeti wrote:   
      
   >> If the world has moved on, that's fine.   
   >   
   > Maybe.  I see not much fun New Fedistan (Mastodon & friends).   
   > Generation 10 second attention span may see it differently.   
      
   This is very interesting. I thought about this the other day, and came to   
   the conclusion that for me, mastodon, is a worse usenet. More limits,   
   slower, and with worse content and severely lacking in the blocking and   
   filter department, but at the end of the day, pretty much the same.   
      
   >> I'll continue to use NNTP and perhaps other media that are focused on   
   >> writing and reading.   
   >   
   > I like those gateways of mailing-lists and other stuff to NNTP.  We   
   > should have even more stuff in/via NNTP.   
      
   A benefit of old school protocols is that they are fairly simple and text   
   based. That makes it very easy to write integrations and gateways instead   
   of todays modern, machine readable protocols.   
      
   >> I don't care for images, sounds, video or whatever   
   >   
   > Depending on the newsreader it may work.  GNUS already has problems with   
   > animated GIFs, but if TB uses FF's HTML renderer, much more may be   
   > possible.  There should be more experiments with this in other   
   > hierarchies or contexts.   
      
   I find it very easy and convenient to link to any media I would like to   
   use to illustrate my texts. It does not happen often, but it is possible   
   if necessary. I am all in favour of pushing media to the client and end   
   user choice.   
      
   >> and I also think that NNTP sort of supports all of that: people here   
   >> often add external URLs on which we download videos, images and   
   >> whatnot.   
   >   
   > That's how it will stay in text only groups.  But NNTP is not only Big8   
   > and their rules and with MIME a lot more is doable.  The client is the   
   > limit.   
   >   
   > \o/  I even get XKCD via NNTP.  \o/  Thanks feedbase!  \o/   
   >   
   >   
      
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