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Do you mean something like Deja News (before its mad pivot in 1999)? Maybe somebody could build a service that offers users an interface to create/consume conte
by rikroots 4y ago
Do you mean something like Deja News (before its mad pivot in 1999)? Maybe somebody could build a service that offers users an interface to create/consume content shared over a dedicated NNTP-based Usenet discussion group, archiving all those messages (respecting the 'X-No_Archive' message header!) and adding in some sort of 'blue tick' crypto id to messages from validated humans. Build in some message character limits, alongside # and @ functionality - not forgetting image/audio/video capabilities - to mimic current Twitter behaviours and this mythical somebody might have a "twitter clone" on their hands?
Of course moderation would remain a nightmare...
- grumbel 4y ago> Do you mean something like Deja News (before its mad pivot in 1999)? Yep, the nice thing about Usenet was that you could refer to any message by a unique message-id. So the where and how you downloaded those messages was of no importance, the Usenet groups were held together by their message-id and a few other headers. The rest was just federated servers mirroring the content among each other. There was however a lack of security, so nothing would stop you from generating duplicate message-id, faking identities and such. > Of course moderation would remain a nightmare... What I would like to see is moderation made optional and transparent. Just give me a list of message-ids that a moderator deemed filter worthy, but leave it to me if I want to use that filter list or not. Such an approach would also allow third parties to do the filtering.