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"Reddit alternative" "open source federated"

What is the difference between this and usenet

I agree with you that Reddit basically overlaps this area, but I don't think access to Usenet is easy these days (ignoring paid services that are optimized for downloading files).

Although if anyone knows good servers (ISPs no longer seem to offer them) or even better a way to connect own server to Usenet, I'm interested.

aioe.org

There are still a few servers that allow one to access usenet to access text based groups without a monthly fee. Barring that, you can access usenet newsgroups via Google Groups (groups.google.com), but only via HTTP.

You might be on to something! repackage an nntp server with a web front end in a docker container and away you go

@zzo38computer (can you tag people on this website????)

Dejanews did that many years ago. You can still access usenet via Google groups.

yes but undeniably the dejanews or google groups usenet experience was worse than with a proper news client like Forté Agent, except for search.

These days a web based NNTP client could offer an equivalent if not superior experience.

[1] http://www.forteinc.com

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