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Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by workthrowaway on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:10PM (#21547163)
is it? i mean there were online boards and forums that had this comments/replies structure, joel on software anyone?. well minus the points. but those were never called social networks...
Re: Jimmy Wales has quietly launched a Facebook rival by TallGuyShort on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:14PM (#21547211)
I wouldn't have called it a social network - there's really no graph of user connections, unless you want to consider a graph of directional has-replied-to or has-upvoted links, but that's pushing it.

But if another technology added an embedded HN clone, they would call it "social networking features", probably...