The suspension of Chuck C. Johnson from Twitter has prompted a lot of discussion about alternatives based in protocol, and I had a thought on the subject
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Great article. The idea of resurrecting the Usenet to use it as a foundation for decentralized social media services sounds really intriguing, but how do you think we can get rid of the problems that made a significant contribution to Usenet 1.0s downfall, like spam and sporging?
Naturally, by changing the view as I described above. There's plenty of spam and sporging on Twitter. I never see it. Why? Because I, like everyone else on Twitter, am not following topics. I'm following *people*. I have never had spam on my timeline because I do not follow the kinds of people that would post spam in the first place.
I've been saying for a while that Twitter is IRC on port 80, except you follow people instead of channels (although channels are still there, with the same syntax even).
Usenet where you follow people instead of topics makes complete sense to me.
Are the various write-only p2p storage systems like OceanStore too experimental? I get the point that you want a rock solid foundation. I still suspect there are probably solid almost-ready-to-go technical improvements over a federation of servers doing UUCP and yenc.
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The idea of resurrecting the Usenet to use it as a foundation for decentralized social media services sounds really intriguing, but how do you think we can get rid of the problems that made a significant contribution to Usenet 1.0s downfall, like spam and sporging?
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Usenet where you follow people instead of topics makes complete sense to me.
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