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We HAD an ubiquitous, federated social network that was widely used and it died because the real world has more sharp edges than the stuff of dreams.
by MisterBastahrd 3y ago
We HAD an ubiquitous, federated social network that was widely used and it died because the real world has more sharp edges than the stuff of dreams.
- basch 3y agoI did stumble upon hubzilla/zot which looks closer to what I described than lemmy|mastadon. https://zotlabs.org/help/en/about/about#Glossary https://zotlabs.org/help/en/about/about#Glossary What are you describing? Email? The Web? PGP?
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoUsenet. It took ONE MONTH of AOL users to be unleashed upon Usenet to obliterate it as a discussion platform for all time. First, it was loaded up with stupid, low-content posters. Then the spammers came to throw dirt on the casket.