Comment on The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Fediverse is just Usenet 2.0. The trick will be if its design can keep enshitification at bay.
Comment on The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Fediverse is just Usenet 2.0. The trick will be if its design can keep enshitification at bay.
Kissaki@feddit.de 1 year ago
Isn’t usenet a closed - as in non-publicly-anonymously-accessible - platform?
anlumo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, back in the 90s, ISPs had local clones of the entire Usenet subscribers could access directly.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 year ago
Which always bewildered me whenever my dad would tell me to “search usenet” whenever I couldn’t find something. He got into the 'net early-ish, the first time I became aware of it was around 2004, it was already closed (no public registrations) by then.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
It was a great way to get porn!
Turn on the connection before you got to bed and wake up with a fresh batch
anlumo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As someone who had to pay 13 cents per minute in the 90s, this sadly was not an option.