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> a decentralized social network where it's own users govern and moderate it Were you ever on Usenet?
by phone8675309 5y ago
> a decentralized social network where it's own users govern and moderate it
Were you ever on Usenet?
- agustif 5y agoI think I recall downloading some stuff from there in the early 2000, yeah! Usenet was rad!
- dredmorbius 5y agoAre you asking because you see Usenet as a solution or as a another nonviable approach? Usenet failed to scale past the first million or so users. Present social media platforms number in the 100s of millions to billions.
- phone8675309 5y agoI ask because Usenet, before it became a distributed lossy datastore for media pirates, was "a decentralized social network where it's own users govern and moderate it", and it was a complete, well documented, shitshow.
- dredmorbius 5y agoFair enough. I agree on both points. I've argued for several other reasons in addition for which Usenet died: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_usenet_died/ https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_use...