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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by MisterBastahrd on Thursday June 15, 2023 @02:12PM (#36344434)
We HAD an ubiquitous, federated social network that was widely used and it died because the real world has more sharp edges than the stuff of dreams.
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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by basch on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:07PM (#36345094)
I did stumble upon hubzilla/zot which looks closer to what I described than lemmy|mastadon. https://zotlabs.org/help/en/about/about#Glossary

What are you describing? Email? The Web? PGP?

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Re:Reddit’s blackout protest is set to continue indefinitely by MisterBastahrd on Friday June 16, 2023 @08:01PM (#36365632)
Usenet.

It took ONE MONTH of AOL users to be unleashed upon Usenet to obliterate it as a discussion platform for all time. First, it was loaded up with stupid, low-content posters. Then the spammers came to throw dirt on the casket.

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