Re: Briding Usenet to other social networks?

(bridGEing)

On 2026/2/8 5:14:32, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

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> If someone (maybe a student from IT) could write bridges or gateways to 
> sync Usenet with modern social networks like Facebook, Threads, Reddit, 
> etc!! It isn't difficult, right? Because Echomail of Fidonet did it!! :)
> 
> 
Yes, I'd like to see that too - and it ought to be an interesting
project for a newcomer, and/or someone working with one of the AIs.

However, I suspect the problem is administrative rather than technical.
Usenet mostly doesn't "belong" to anyone: granted, the _servers_ do, but
the content is mostly free. Whereas most other "social media" _does_
_belong_ to someone - Meta, Google, or whoever - and they like to
control both content (which, granted, they mostly do rather loosely,
unless forced by legislation [and often not properly even then]), and
who can connect/post, which they control more tightly. Basically,
they're not going to allow existing usenet servers - carrying posts from
anywhere and everywhere - to relay onto their services. They _might_ be
willing to let such services _take_ posts from their users, but one-way
connections to usenet aren't much use. (They've existed before: there
was one inside - Netscape was it? - with a rather idiosyncratic sysop;
that had some "leakage" to usenet. And even Google Groups, when it was
working, had a rather dodgy connection to real usenet.)

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