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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by jancsika on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @09:04AM (#14702042)
> But if you could find a way to scale up the "me-centric" view of the web to modern needs, then everyone -- early adopters and the mass audience -- would both benefit, I think.

Even assuming there were adequate mindshare to develop and maintain such an effort-- let's even just pick a modern day USENET-- how are you going to pay the bills?

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Re:Stopping the Internet of Noise – A useful internet back a... by wcummings on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:38AM (#14702723)
USENET still exists, and someone pays the bills. Ditto for IRC. People still use them.

Though RSS is kinda dying, I'll give the author that.

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