@lkh as I said, the idea is simple, getting it working isn't. there are a lot of small working parts that need to be configured right.
like the passwd file needs to have a tab between username and password, where everywhere else a space is enough.
and of course the documentation is spread over at least 20 year old files all over the net.
it's not like many people are enthusiastic about this particular technology (because lets face it, for #usenet#nntp is superior, for email it's #smtp)
This is a #lisp machine for network protocols. Initially in pursuit of a social forum focused on link sharing.
as #startups and free projects alike rush to implement some #IETF RFC adding only 'but on the web'. I aim to define a modular protocol server which can support an arbitrary number of network protocols as a network daemon. Our POC in this endeavour will be to build an #NNTP -like protocol daemon which gateways to #IPFS storage. The content held in this system can be consumed by arbitrary clients; a web application presenting #reddit -like services would be just one of many potential clients, although it is likely that Gnus for Emacs will be the first one. https://codeberg.org/fade/callisto
It had its high time approx. 90s to mid 00s. I very much enjoyed it.
It ticks all the boxes when it comes to #federation and freedom of interface: a number of web-based services, CLI tools like #slrn (mine), #Thunderbird and other GUI-tools.