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    From ~rdh@rdh@tilde.institute to tilde.services.uucp on Sun Apr 12 05:55:07 2026
    So with all the news that's happening in the world lately, I thought it
    would be nice to have a place to discuss current events...but not with
    the general public. We all know how they are. =)

    Maybe we could create a group like tilde.news, or tilde.currentevents?
    Could get some conversations going. It would be interesting to see how different or the same our opinions are about topics other than Unix.
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  • From vort3@vort3@tilde.club to tilde.services.uucp on Sun Apr 12 11:42:03 2026
    On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:55:07 -0000 (UTC)
    ~rdh <rdh@tilde.institute> wrote:

    So with all the news that's happening in the world lately, I thought
    it would be nice to have a place to discuss current events...but not
    with the general public. We all know how they are. =)

    Maybe we could create a group like tilde.news, or tilde.currentevents?
    Could get some conversations going. It would be interesting to see how different or the same our opinions are about topics other than Unix.

    It's kinda fun that we have tilde.news (not NNTP group, but an actual website at
    URL tilde.news), it's an aggregator but despite the name nobody posts news
    there. Also there's no gateway between tilde.news and netnews of tildeverse (so,
    this NNTP server). Would be cool if we had tilde.news group that acts as a
    gateway between tilde.news website and NNTP. Also would be nice if more people
    posted more news, currently only a few people post to tilde.news regularly...
    But that's kinda partially my fault, I'm subscribed to tilde.news via RSS, I
    read it but never post (so, I'm mostly lurking everywhere as usual).
    --

    NOSIG

    --- Synchronet 3.20a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
  • From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.services.uucp on Sun Apr 12 11:06:02 2026
    ~rdh <rdh@tilde.institute> wrote:

    So with all the news that's happening in the world lately, I thought it
    would be nice to have a place to discuss current events...but not with
    the general public. We all know how they are. =)

    I'd expect such discussions turn into conflict with the ~verse's CoC in
    near to zero time and so prefer to keep them outside of the ~verse.

    Not having tilde.politics or similar here looks more like a feature than
    a bug to me.
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  • From jmcs@jmcs@tilde.club to vort3 on Sun Apr 12 14:04:06 2026
    On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:42:03 +0500
    vort3 <vort3@tilde.club> wrote:

    On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:55:07 -0000 (UTC)
    ~rdh <rdh@tilde.institute> wrote:

    So with all the news that's happening in the world lately, I thought
    it would be nice to have a place to discuss current events...but not
    with the general public. We all know how they are. =)

    Maybe we could create a group like tilde.news, or tilde.currentevents? Could get some conversations going. It would be interesting to see how different or the same our opinions are about topics other than Unix.

    It's kinda fun that we have tilde.news (not NNTP group, but an actual website at
    URL tilde.news), it's an aggregator but despite the name nobody posts news
    there. Also there's no gateway between tilde.news and netnews of tildeverse (so,
    this NNTP server). Would be cool if we had tilde.news group that acts as a
    gateway between tilde.news website and NNTP. Also would be nice if more people
    posted more news, currently only a few people post to tilde.news regularly...
    But that's kinda partially my fault, I'm subscribed to tilde.news via RSS, I
    read it but never post (so, I'm mostly lurking everywhere as usual).


    From https://tilde.news/about
    "
    Rules
    1. Political links are not allowed, unless directly related technology
    or tilde issues,ie
    Net Neutrality
    Privacy

    2. Please limit content to PG-13, mild R rated
    "

    And, given the kind of news that the world keeps sending our way, it's
    no surprise not a lot of links get sent there :D

    I'm also concerned about what yeti said recently: bringing politics in
    here might very soon turn this whole friendly space into a powder keg...



    --

    NOSIG

    --
    jmcs <jmcs@tilde.club>
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  • From vort3@vort3@tilde.club to tilde.services.uucp on Sun Apr 12 17:21:06 2026
    On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:04:06 +0200
    jmcs <jmcs@tilde.club> wrote:

    From https://tilde.news/about
    "
    Rules
    1. Political links are not allowed, unless directly related
    technology or tilde issues,ie
    Net Neutrality
    Privacy

    2. Please limit content to PG-13, mild R rated
    "

    And, given the kind of news that the world keeps sending our way, it's
    no surprise not a lot of links get sent there :D

    I'm also concerned about what yeti said recently: bringing politics in
    here might very soon turn this whole friendly space into a powder
    keg...

    Idk, I think there's plenty of news that isn't politics that could be discussed...
    But maybe I', being naive and any talk eventually becomes politics.
    --

    NOSIG


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  • From ~rdh@rdh@tilde.institute to tilde.services.uucp on Mon Apr 13 07:37:35 2026
    On 2026-04-12, vort3 <vort3@tilde.club> wrote:
    On Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:55:07 -0000 (UTC)

    It's kinda fun that we have tilde.news (not NNTP group, but an actual website at
    URL tilde.news), it's an aggregator but despite the name nobody posts news
    there.

    Oof, I actually forgot about that. Who needs the WWW anyway?
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