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Re: USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

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Subject: Re: USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:05:44 +1300
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by: candycane - Thu, 31 Aug 2023 09:05 UTC

Re> I ran one for a while. Slightly hairy/slightly above my level of
Re> expertise, but I enjoyed it. Usenet rules. Noone owns it so no one
Re> can pull the kind of shenanigans you now see on Twitter/Reddit.

Yeah, its the USER's network. Super cool design.

Re> Most young people will be turned off that it involves text, not
Re> images. That's fine with me. They can gather elsewhere.

Technically, I think Mastadon is also a decentralized network. Not quite as
retro feeling tho :(

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