I cant help but draw parallels between this and NNTP. This is essentially a really nice skin over newgroups, and thats not a bad thing at all. We have seen just how successful a modern UX can be on a old protocol with slack providing a UX to IRC. It is funny that we are slowly reworking the tools of the early computing community in slick modern ways.
It is also interesting that we as a community have completely sold out federated independent operators with a common standards defined protocol for soloed tooling.
This seems like a real missed opportunity to build on systems that already work. I'd love to see these open systems like nntp come back. I hope someone puts in the effort to make them competitive in the modern technology world.
It is also interesting that we as a community have completely sold out federated independent operators with a common standards defined protocol for soloed tooling.