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I 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 mode
by phone8675309 5y ago
I 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...