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We had something like that. It was called USENET. With the right reader and a decent ISP, it was great.
by bradleyjg 3y ago
We had something like that. It was called USENET. With the right reader and a decent ISP, it was great.
- MichaelZuo 3y agoUsenet still exists though? Plus the vast vast majority of reddit content consists of mindless nonsense, or even worse, so it's probably best that USENET didn't continue growing in popularity.
- B1FF_PSUVM 3y ago> mindless nonsense That's the vast majority of anything (aka Sturgeon's Law). Soon to be "improved by AI".
- phpisthebest 3y agoYes Usenet is still around, it mainly for the downloading "LinuxISO's™"
- GuB-42 3y agoNot really. Or more precisely, it was great when the internet was small and people were mostly well behaved. And as forums and then platforms with easier access and better moderation tools took over, it became nothing but spam, only leaving alt.binaries, so much that many people saw USENET as just a network for piracy, like The Pirate Bay or Megaupload.
- bradleyjg 3y agoI don’t know about the better moderation part. With the right reader one could subscribe to a moderator of choice. That’s an elegant feature I’ve never seen anywhere since.