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Think something like Reddit + Bittorrent. Slight difference -- there would be no main "front page," -- only individual self-hosted hubs that could choose which
by jrm4 6y ago
Think something like Reddit + Bittorrent.
Slight difference -- there would be no main "front page," -- only individual self-hosted hubs that could choose which "subreddits" (newsgroups) they would carry.
- bonoboTP 6y agoHow did you get a username? What was its format? Something structured like an email address or just any string?
- jrm4 6y agoI'd say that's where my analogy breaks down a bit. Reddit has a fully centralized username system, in Usenet it would be up to the individual hub (as I recall?) The Mastodon ecosystem today is a better analogy here.
- ars 6y agoIt was normally your email address, but you could put anything. Typically the posting news server (i.e. your own news server) was responsible for validating that you used your real email address. Originally there was no validation, but as spam rose validation became required. News servers required you to login, originally they were open to anyone.
- indymike 6y agoYou just made something up. If you wanted to ensure your messages were untampered, you signed with PGP.
- toyg 6y ago“Reddit + bittorrent” would actually be pretty cool...
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- thesuitonym 6y agoSecure Scuttlebutt might interest you.
- tzs 6y agoMore like Reddit's database + Bittorrent. It was up to your Usenet client software to provide an interface on top of that, and there were several independently developed but fully developed clients to choose from. That meant that unlike with Reddit, an idiotic interface redesign only ruined it for users of one client, and only until they got time to switch to another client.