who wants to reinvent usenet? gwan, you know you wanna

[rone]

en_ki brought to my attention elsejournal, an effort to decentralize journals.  Since i have a genetic defect that precludes any possibility of generating useful code, i'll probably just bring my typical idea-based energy, throw out some documents, and in general irritate people when i point out, "UR DOIN IT RONG."  Because that worked so well back when my tilted windmill was Usenet II.

I know some of you care.  And of those, some might actually have the time to put something up.

Comments

[eviltofu.livejournal.com]

Why not just re-implement FidoNet?!

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Why not...both are still in use, but unlike Usenet, FIDO doesn't lend itself to being nothing more than a large anonymous porn/pirate distribution network these days.

[eviltofu.livejournal.com]

I was already designing something like this for the past week but it's going to be OS X 10.5 only unless I want to go to wxPython or Java...

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Ooh! It totally needs an NNTP interface! That would make it PERFECT!

as perfect as

[notr.livejournal.com]

Jive (http://www.jivesoftware.com/)!

Re: as perfect as

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

Wasn't 2000, like, eight years ago?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Alternatively, we could just stick pins in our eyes.

[mskala.livejournal.com]

What's the difference between a decentralized journal system and people just posting their journals on their own Web sites?

[vatine]

Support for a decentralised userbase? That's about the only thing I can think of.

[mskala.livejournal.com]

Well, you're going to have to do most of the work locally anyway if you don't want to trust random other nodes to be able to read your journal; and stuff like OpenID can already handle the parts that don't need to be local.

[vatine]

Well, the "hiding"/locking/whatever still needs to be done on the node that owns the entry, but I suspect there needs to be decent support for OpenID mechanisms (and, maybe, some sort of nickname propagation).

There might be a want for smooth integration of multiple journals, but that can probably be done via some sort of registration mechanism and nasty DNS hacks (effectively mimicking userid.livejournal.com).