From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   > D  writes:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   >   
   >> My dream is that people will start to use small self-hosted,   
   >> end-to-end encrypted chat services, so that the laws forbidding   
   >> encryption become meaningless.   
   >   
   > That's my idea, too.  I don't think the USENET is actually a perfect   
   > project.  I think communities should not too large.  So I think we   
   > should build more NNTP servers to be used by small communities.  And   
   > then these servers should have a standard API so that an index could be   
   > created somewhere where people can discover communities.   
   >   
   > Imagine how many closed NNTP servers, mailing lists are out there and   
   > nobody knows.   
   >   
   > The web is like that.  A website sends you to another one.  This is   
   > decentralization.  No NNTP servers send you to another one, except those   
   > that have peers, but then it's as if they're all the same.  My idea is   
   > to make NNTP servers more like the web.   
   >   
   > I don't know if it works.  I'm thinking out loud.   
      
   That would be a nice take on NNTP. A kind of "federated" nntp model, as   
   opposed to todays standardize and "global" version. Federated is perhaps   
   not the right word for it.   
      
   I think I see your vision here... we could think of the local nntp servers   
   as small communities, you could opt-in to make them public, keep them   
   private, or just register them with a search engine if you want.   
      
   That model also would avoid all the newsgroup hierarchy stuff, you just   
   name your groups what ever you want, and you can decide to setup peers   
   with other communities you know.   
      
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