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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by phone8675309 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:09AM (#27730215)
> a decentralized social network where it's own users govern and moderate it

Were you ever on Usenet?

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by dredmorbius on Sunday July 04, 2021 @01:44PM (#27731344)
Are you asking because you see Usenet as a solution or as a another nonviable approach?

Usenet failed to scale past the first million or so users. Present social media platforms number in the 100s of millions to billions.

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by phone8675309 on Sunday July 04, 2021 @02:56PM (#27731797)
I ask because Usenet, before it became a distributed lossy datastore for media pirates, was "a decentralized social network where it's own users govern and moderate it", and it was a complete, well documented, shitshow.
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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by dredmorbius on Sunday July 04, 2021 @03:01PM (#27731831)
Fair enough. I agree on both points.

I've argued for several other reasons in addition for which Usenet died:

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_use...

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Re:Social media is broken – a new report offers ways to fix it by agustif on Sunday July 04, 2021 @11:15AM (#27730270)
I think I recall downloading some stuff from there in the early 2000, yeah!

Usenet was rad!

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