Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> You cloud-enable the servers/groups you're interested in having be
> device-independent.  For me, this would be Gmane/Gwene groups, as well
> as my home IMAP server.
>
> Gnus will then ping the new RESTful cloud.gnus.org server with updates
> on new groups and marks.  From the Gnus side, this will look pretty much
> like what's Gnus is doing now with IMAP -- we tell the server what we've
> read, and what groups we're (un)subscribing.  Signing up for the server
> would be a zero-click process.  I.e., you just say what your cloud user
> name and password is, and it'll be created if it doesn't exist, and if
> it does, Gnus will keep the account updated.

There was rightful outrage at putting private data in a cloud server,
but it's easy to deflect by separating the cloud concept and having to
use a particular server.  As long as the server code is also Free,
people can just point their gnus clients at their own server.