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The point about Cuomo is definitely worth remembering, but USENET suffered its own decline. The vast majority of folks who got online from the mid-nineties on
by krrrh 8y ago
The point about Cuomo is definitely worth remembering, but USENET suffered its own decline. The vast majority of folks who got online from the mid-nineties on never learned how to use it or engaged with it in any fashion. Once the center of gravity shifted to web-based forums, and then social media, the older users mostly abandoned it.
The lack of comprehensive solutions for spam in the mid-90s should also not be discounted. Spam is an easier problem for centralized systems to fix.
- ghthor 8y agoI'd argue that its now even easier to combat spam using decentralization technologies. If you gateway all actions prone to spam with a signed transaction to a smart contract platform, where that execution costs the spammer real value for each action the spammer no longer has a unequal advantage. This means as an app developer I can mostly ignore combatting spam, that's now an infrastructure problem that the transaction miners need to deal with and handle. It's an empowering separation of concerns! Web 3.0 really shaping up to be a revolutionary development in humanities technology progress and modeling of the world around us.