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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
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[–] raspberriesareyummy 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

it's ~~interesting~~ bullshit if the article author actually things that binaries were the problem. What ended the usenet was google groups providing a gateway to the usenet for people who had no idea what the usenet was. Lots of dumb users posting low quality content, and eventually bots spamming all relevant groups. Binaries had been around forever, in dedicated newsgroups, and they most certainly did not contribute to the downfall of usenet, if anything, the opposite.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dude. You killed the Piped bot.

[–] raspberriesareyummy 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

LOL I noticed just now - but it appears by @glassware explanation that it wasn't actually my link, but a patch that would have affected every link posted to which piped reacts

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[–] glassware 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like they commited a change to Piped bot two hours ago which accidentally removed the functionality to actually change the link. Whoops!

[–] raspberriesareyummy 1 points 1 year ago

Do you have a name / user id of a piped bot developer? Because while we're at it, I think that bot should also avoid responding to itself - which would also prevent such a scenario completely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

good riddance.

[–] glassware 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. I tried getting back into Usenet a few years ago and it was like Yahoo Answers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the opposite.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the opposite.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the opposite.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the opposite.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the opposite.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (92 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

the opposite.

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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