Usenet, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

Re:Usenet, the OG social network, rises again like a text-on... by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:59AM (#37339294)

It's not really like usenet, if only because of the character limits. This really changes the nature of the discussion.

Yes, having images available within mastodon is nice - that was always clunky with usenet.

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Re:Usenet, the OG social network, rises again like a text-on... by cpach on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:01PM (#37339331)

I’m on infosec.exchange, our limit is 11000 chars. That’s more than enough.

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Re:Usenet, the OG social network, rises again like a text-on... by PaulDavisThe1st on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:07PM (#37339427)

My understanding is that "typical" Mastodon/ActivityPub instances limit you to on the order of 500. Certainly true for Fosstodon.

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Re:Usenet, the OG social network, rises again like a text-on... by jowea on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:16PM (#37339598)

I never used the Fediverse, but is all/most trying to be a Twitter clone?

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Re:Usenet, the OG social network, rises again like a text-on... by cpach on Thursday August 31, 2023 @01:30PM (#37340759)

Mastodon is like that. Then you have Kbin and Lemmy which are more Reddit-like, and Pixelfed which is supposedly similar to Instagram.

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