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Re:The Web3 Fraud by Animats on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:49PM (#29587885)
In fact in the history of the internet I cannot find a single example of any technology working better in a decentralized fashion compared to centralized for the end user

Usenet.

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Re:The Web3 Fraud by dredmorbius on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:14AM (#29588093)
That scaled to about 100k active users from a highly-gated potential community of about 1 million and was replaced by ... centralised systems.

Usenet itself was more centralised in most regards than Reddit is today. And even then it proved nonviable.

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Re:The Web3 Fraud by mjevans on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:00AM (#29587983)
Usenet is *semi-centralized. It's much more like a series of co-operative BBS with shared inboxes (read only, auto-expire based on storage).
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