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It's funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won't catch on because "federation is too hard to understand" when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 3 months ago (12 children)

i feel like the newsgroups could also be pegged as an early distributed/mass-audience environment similar to what we see today... multiple nodes sharing sometimes identical loads of content

i miss tagline management.. bluewave

e. ALso! the star trek nonsense was strong with alt.wesly.crusher.die.die.die!

[–] jimmy90 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

usenet was Lemmy without the web UI

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