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All of these social networking protocols feel like we're just re-inventing UUCP at a higher level.
by cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
All of these social networking protocols feel like we're just re-inventing UUCP at a higher level.
- NoGravitas 9y agoI've considered that, as well. I enjoy Mastodon, and am working on another ActivityPub project. But in a lot of ways it's not a significant advantage over Usenet.
- cuckcuckspruce 9y agoMail over UUCP and Usenet over UUCP are optimized for short(-ish) messages, and deal with packet loss, dynamic IP addresses on remote connections, partial transfers, and synchronization scheduling as part of their implementation. It would seem to be a good base to build something like ActivityPub on top of.