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> There isn't, and there has never been, a large (hundreds of millions of active users) online community that wasn't run by a for-profit entity. Usenet.
by dirkt 3y ago
> There isn't, and there has never been, a large (hundreds of millions of active users) online community that wasn't run by a for-profit entity.
Usenet.
- p-e-w 3y agoUsenet has/had hundreds of millions of active users?!? That's certainly news to me.
- Auracle 3y agoWhich is just absolutely full of spam now, plus you need to pay for access (largely).
- hackernewds 3y agoHow about "email"? Do people forget it's a common protocol that isn't monopolized by anyone and is the widest prevalent even today, perhaps because of it?
- ketzu 3y agoI don't think many people consider "email" to be a community in any meaningful way. The same way people don't consider physical mail, the telephone network or the internet as a whole a community.