From: smirzo@example.com   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Yeah---that's the idea.  But it's also future.  First thing is to get a   
   nice prototype with the mundane work done so that we can start dreaming   
   up something cool like that.  More to follow eventually.   
      
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