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0 pointsMisterBastahrd2y ago0 comments

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.

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basch2y ago

I did stumble upon hubzilla/zot which looks closer to what I described than lemmy|mastadon. https://zotlabs.org/help/en/about/about#Glossary

What are you describing? Email? The Web? PGP?

MisterBastahrdOP2y ago

Usenet.

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.

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