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Re:What do you want in a new social network? by Porthos9K on Monday September 23, 2019 @08:49PM (#21055380)
The tech exists, but the average schmuck has no idea how to use it, so it might as well not exist.
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Re:What do you want in a new social network? by krapp on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @06:13AM (#21058295)
Plenty of average schmucks managed in the early days, though.

Granted, it was through services like Geocities and Tripod, no one was building their own server by intstalling and configuring Linux through a VM or anything, but "having your own website" has never been that complicated.

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Re:What do you want in a new social network? by feralhog on Monday September 23, 2019 @08:53PM (#21055399)
Fair enough
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