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Comment by darau1 | Hacker News Reader

I still stubbornly hope that one of these silicone valley boys will "invent" USENET, and package it up nicely for the masses. That'd be cool.

This guy just (like a few weeks ago) started to put together a decentralized newsgroup toolset based on the NNTP protocol.

README:

DFeed is:

    an NNTP client
    a mailing list archive
    a forum-like web interface
    an ATOM aggregator
    an IRC bot

They should add in Matrix, Mastodon, and Lemmy support for good measure :P

That seems to turn usenet into a forum

It's a multilegged bridge: any of the two-way methods are views and updates into the same dataset.

looks cool, but D specific. how easy would it be to generalize this?

It's written in D, and it's used to host the D forums, but it's open source, so you can run your own and pick the topics you like.

Several boards use open source software, so in theory one could develop a "bridge" to Mastodon, Slack, Discord or something similar.

Sounds like a job for Apple Computers.