Our friends over at tilde.club run an NNTP service that's open to the public. There are a few options for browsing from tilde.institute.
news.tilde.club:119
If you just want to take a look, lynx can connect to an NNTP service:
lynx news://news.tilde.club
/etc/nntpserver has been populated with news.tilde.club, so connecting with tin
only requires this command:
tin -r
-r for remote newsgroups. Once connected, hit S to subscribe, then * to subscribe
to all newsgroups. To start a new thread, pick a group, then hit w for "write" and
compose your message. To respond to a message in a thread, hit f for "follow-up". There
are a few other options for interaction with a post or thread, such as r for a direct
email reply to the post author.
Start alpine, then navigate to Setup, and finally Config. Set the following options:
news.tilde.clublocalhost:25If you have another preferred client, feel free to ask us to install it. Either mail
admins@tilde.institute or jump into the IRC channel #institute.