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post_date: 2023-05-17
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+> Note: This was ported from my old gemini capsule, still served on gemini at `gemini.ctrl-c.club/~tjp`
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# NNTP - a great protocol for bridging?
-This gemlog is hosted on ctrl-c.club, a "place for the curious to poke around and play." It's a multi-user unix box as a social network. We have public hosting for the web and gemini, email accounts, IRC rooms, command-line games, and a custom bulletin-board software built by a member called iris.
+This gemlog is hosted on `ctrl-c.club`, a "place for the curious to poke around and play." It's a multi-user unix box as a social network. We have public hosting for the web and gemini, email accounts, IRC rooms, command-line games, and a custom bulletin-board software built by a member called iris.
The original iris client is a pretty bare-bones TUI, pretty much just ruby with readline and some terminal colors. As I started enjoying using it, I was also getting back into usenet newsgroups - which are still around if not exactly thriving. I realized that these systems were functionally really similar, but built on extremely different building blocks. But I wanted access to the relatively mature TUI clients available for newsgroups for browsing iris threads.
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I'm increasingly thinking of the newsgroups NNTP protocol as a medium for following conversations and excited about the possibilities of a sort of bitlbee-for-newsgroups.
~tjp
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-> Note: This was ported from my old gemini capsule, still served on gemini at `gemini.ctrl-c.club/~tjp`