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Re:Twitter Notes by rchaud on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:35PM (#31839977)
> Why aren't older decentralized "services" protocols being looked at, or developed further - i.e. UUnet/newsgroups, torrent, etc?

Where will the money come from? The only reason there's any investment in software at all is so that a monetizable product can be built on top of it. And nothing monetizes better than vendor lock-in.

Re:Twitter Notes by lupire on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @03:00PM (#31840340)
Government, universities, hobbyists.

That's how we did it the first time.

Re:Twitter Notes by fullshark on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @04:55PM (#31841755)
The tools are available to them right now, nothing's stopping them except the fact that people want to spend their time in walled gardens.
Re:Twitter Notes by fercircularbuf on Thursday June 23, 2022 @12:28AM (#31845151)
I can't help but think that walled gardens are attractive places to spend time, not that people want to spend their time in them.