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> Twitter is also a collective mind in a way that has only previously existed in science fiction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org
by dsl 4y ago
> Twitter is also a collective mind in a way that has only previously existed in science fiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
You might not have been around for it, but we did this before. The same lesson was learned then too... this is why we can't have nice things.
- jacquesm 4y agoUsenet wasn't near realtime.
- Tabular-Iceberg 4y agoI often wonder if you could make something like a Reddit clone or image board use the Usenet network model. I imagine that it’s hard now that full service ISPs are so rare. Paying extra for access is probably not something many people would want to do, even though it would probably make for more healthy and diverse discourse than anything that always needs to be advertiser friendly. But the greatest obstacle is probably that many users and service providers would consider the inability to ban someone across the whole network to be a bug rather than a feature.
- qq66 4y agoI was a heavy Usenet user but the Usenet population was such a small fraction of the world's population (and the Usenet post mechanics were much less targeted) that I didn't have the same kinds of interactions on Usenet as I do on Twitter.