Whether you're really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

  • vort3@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Others have said already, but XMPP and RSS. Also, nobody mentioned NNTP yet.

    I wish everything was accessible by NNTP and we had better NNTP clients. NNTP is like RSS but for forums (so, Lemmy, Reddit, or anything where you could reply to posts). Download for offline reading, read in your client, define your own formatting, sorting, filtering, your client, your rules.

    If Lemmy was accessible via NNTP, I could just download all posts and comments I'm interested in and reply to them without any connection, and my replies would get synced with the server later when I connect to WiFi or something.

    • vort3@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Probably it would be better to edit my comment, but I'll go with a reply to myself.

      To all fans of RSS: there's this service called FeedBase that is essentially a RSS to NNTP gate. You add your RSS feed to that and it becomes a newsgroup on their server, and you can subscribe to it using any NNTP client. New articles appear as new posts in that newsgroup and you can post your own replies to them. So, you get RSS but with discussions or comments.

      https://feedbase.org/

      If you try this, let me know what RSS feeds you're reading, so we could read the articles together and have some discussion there!

      P.S. This comment is not an ad. I genuinely love feedbase and use that myself.