Seriously though, I’m tired of people starting new social networks with investor money. Those investors want their money back and the entrepreneurs starting the social networks are going to need to pay them back with money obtained from the members.
I want the USENET model back. It was the original Fediverse. Community is an outcome of the protocol.
@kc @standaloneSA So 20 years ago, apparently, I wrote this thing that would syndicate blogs to NNTP via CSS classes, and I forget the details on the newsreader back into my comments, but threads suggest it was working... https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/6704.html
I think, despite the enthusiasm, I only ever had one other user of it.
@kc @standaloneSA And I think this is the earlier thread. https://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/6357.html
It's been 2 decades, but I'm sure the code is in Perl, my blog is Perl+PostgreSQL running with CGI, though from those comments I was clearly thinking in terms of parsed HTML over HTTP. I'm not saying it's a good idea, and running INN is a PITA, but I did it once...
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