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OCTADEUSENET IS NOT DEAD !!!!! USENET IS STILL FREE FREE FREE! Usenet is an ever-living, Casper the friendly ghost of discussion networks. Just a friendly reminder that Usenet still exists and access to text newsgroups is still FREE. Access is provided by volunteer sysops around the world. See links below. Back in its glory days it seems that just about every academic institution had its own Usenet hierarchy of newsgroups. Linux was revealed to the world via Usenet. Open source philosophy gained its steam via Usenet. Usenet is the original free speech network. Usenet is the original 'social network'. NovaBBS <a href="https://novabbs.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://novabbs.org</a> Simple and free access to text-only Usenet Newsgroups <a href="https://www.i2pn2.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.i2pn2.org/</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Usenet</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBS</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=networknews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetworkNews</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=eternalseptember" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EternalSeptember</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/infostorm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@infostorm@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter@a.gup.pe</a>

OCTADEI see questions about chat, communication, and forum solutions often enough that I figure I should write a descriptive post of several options to keep around for recycling. Since I don't know your exact needs I will describe three options here. Two options are very modern and has a lot of features and the third is very retro and simple text-based forum software with some cool privacy and federation features. Delta Chat is a email-based chat app. I can use chatmail servers or email servers. It is end-to-end encrypted. (<a href="https://delta.chat/en/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://delta.chat/en/).</a> If your correspondents have POP/IMAP/SMTP email accounts they can use DeltaChat. Delta Chat supports group chats and in-chat apps that you can create. It also now supports audio/video calls however they require using a link-based service. If you want video and audio calls through your own XMPP server, or just private chat, XMPP is the way to go. Movim is a very mature server application for managing a social and chat network based on XMPP protocol. (<a href="https://movim.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://movim.eu/)</a> Movim allows you to federate with other servers similar to how Mastodon servers federate, and it has more features not available in Mastodon, including video conferencing. Movim has chat, blogs, chat rooms, and even screen sharing support. If you want a public readable text-based forum without video or audio calls then Rocksolid Light is an option. Rocksolid Light is a NNTP server with a web forum front end: <a href="https://novabbs.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://novabbs.org.</a> You can run a private or public node, and even a private or public federated network. Rocksolid Light has several themes included in the distribution. Here is the same server software running with a very different front end theme: <a href="https://news.octade.net" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://news.octade.net</a> (username: 'guest', password is 'guest123' reversed) You don't have to federate your Rocksolid Light server, but it you want you can federate it. If you federate it, you can send encrypted BBS mail messages between users on different domains. You can also compose encrypted PGP/Mime messages in a newsreader and post them encrypted to a newsgroup for that purpose, so your encryption keys don't have to reside on the server. The bonus with NNTP is that users can read and post using a dedicated newsreader client that is threaded and has filtering and very compact message threading. You can also download all new messages at once and then read them and write the replies while offline. Movim is a very highly developed option that includes everything including the kitchen sink, so if you want to grow into audio and video conferencing and federate blogs, it is a superior option. Movim has a very modern interface compared to Rocksolid Light. The advantage of Rocksolid Light is its old-timey simplicity for text-based discussion threads. More about Movim is described here: <a href="https://itsfoss.com/movim/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://itsfoss.com/movim/.</a> More open source WhatsApp alternatives are described here: <a href="https://itsfoss.com/private-whatsapp-alternatives/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://itsfoss.com/private-whatsapp-alternatives/</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=deltachat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeltaChat</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=e2e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#E2E</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=encryption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Encryption</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=movim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Movim</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=xmpp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XMPP</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=jabber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jabber</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=rocksolidlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RocksolidLight</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=servers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Servers</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=nntp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NNTP</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Usenet</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=forums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Forums</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=newsgroups" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Newsgroups</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=networknews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetworkNews</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Retro</a> <a href="https://soc.octade.net?t=oldschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldSchool</a>

lamp<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@palestine@a.gup.pe</a> infodump@a.gup.pe == Usenet: Network News Free Speech Network == (303 words. Read time 2-3 minutes. Save and share!) ## Contents ## 1. Introduction 2. Ways to access Usenet 3. Links to Usenet hosts and software 4. Rough traffic count Do you remember Network News, AKA Usenet? At over 40 years old, Usenet is the original 'social network'. Usenet is the oldest bastion of digital free speech networks. Usenet is highly resistant to censorship. For decades Usenet has served as a free speech haven. It has also served as a platform for secure and anonymous messaging. I suspect that many of GenY and GenZ have never heard of Usenet. We can change that. We can alert them to this censorship-resistant network as an alternative to highly censored social media. ## Ways to access Usenet ## There are multiple ways to access Usenet: - web front ends - dedicated graphical clients - dedicated terminal clients ## Links to Usenet hosts and software ## Users can access Usenet to read and post by installing free client software or by visiting a host that provides web browser access. * Free Forum front end for Usenet: <a href="https://novabbs.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://novabbs.org</a> * Free Usenet servers list: <a href="https://sybershock.com/#usenet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sybershock.com/#usenet</a> * Free Usenet reader software: - Thunderbird <a href="https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/</a> - Betterbird <a href="https://www.betterbird.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.betterbird.eu/</a> - Claws Mail <a href="https://www.claws-mail.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.claws-mail.org/</a> - Sylpheed <a href="https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/</a> - Seamonkey <a href="https://www.seamonkey-project.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.seamonkey-project.org/</a> ## Rough traffic count ## A few days ago when I counted, more than 16 thousand articles were posted in Usenet threads in a 24-hour period. I checked today as of a few minutes past midnight GMT, and almost 12 thousand articles were posted in the past 24-hour period. At this rate about 4.4 million articles would be posted in a single year. Share this information with your friends! <a href="https://neon.nightbulb.net?t=usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Usenet</a> <a href="https://neon.nightbulb.net?t=nntp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NNTP</a> <a href="https://neon.nightbulb.net?t=networknews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetworkNews</a> <a href="https://neon.nightbulb.net?t=socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://neon.nightbulb.net?t=socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialNetworks</a> <a href="https://neon.nightbulb.net?t=freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeSpeech</a> <a href="https://neon.nightbulb.net?t=censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Censorship</a>

CarolleisaThe first lesson in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OnTyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OnTyranny</a> (by Professor Tim Snyder) has been dismissed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NetworkNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NetworkNews</a> *Justice (as Trump calls her) Aileen Cannon who has delivered the shot she hopes will blow up <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericanDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AmericanDemocracy</a>.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DoNotObeyInAdvance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DoNotObeyInAdvance</a>

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