From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: On manuals and the Intertubes not working Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:56:57 -0500 Message-ID: References: <65e96d12.170a0220.932f6.0c8f@mx.google.com> <87h6hijbsn.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <874jdij7i8.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Reply-To: Stefan Monnier Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30898"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:eiHtZ9urHIHRfsuN1YhM11VQyH8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 07 23:57:42 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1riMgH-0007s2-B8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:57:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1riMfl-0004pJ-Lv; Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1riMfk-0004pA-8l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1riMfh-00011F-R2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:57:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1riMfe-0006uZ-RT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2024 23:57:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:146055 Archived-At: >> There are even some successor candidates, such as Matrix and >> ActivityPub. > Although one could argue that these are trying to replicate things we > already have and doing so not so well, especially ActivityPub when > compared with NNTP... (IMO, of course). FWIW, I think ActivityPub does a fairly good job. I don't think it would be straightforward to make NNTP offer comparable facilities. This said, it's too early to see whether Lemmy and Kbin can really work as well as NNTP, since they haven't seen much uptake yet :-( Stefan