Also the phone system, per the video. That's run by large corporations, often with monopolies, but at least they interoperate.
it's amazing the international telephone system even worked at all.
ma bell was quite centralized but there were many attempts to get them to interoperate both domestically and internationally, even to the point of having a very rigorous regulation regime (nationalization too.)
Re:What Is the Fediverse?
by strogonoff on Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:08PM
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If we required all big social to interoperate (open complete APIs, etc.) it would solve a lot of woes.
Re:What Is the Fediverse?
by GekkePrutser on Thursday April 28, 2022 @06:04PM
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In fact Usenet is still very much alive for the purpose of evading said copyright laws
Sadly it's no longer alive for its original purpose :(
Multiple times, in fact, counting FIDO and Usenet and Bitnet as separate developments.
So it isn't like this is a new idea, or like it's impossible to do with current copyright law.