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ZeroCool to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

www.theregister.com

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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix

www.theregister.com

ZeroCool to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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USENET, the original social network, is under new management
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Alive and still quite vigorous considering its age
  • @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • Flying Squid
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      Dude. You killed the Piped bot.

      • @pascal@lemm.ee
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        good riddance.

      • @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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        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

        • Flying Squid
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          It’s at 91 replies to itself. It was at 25 when I posted that 2 hours ago. I wonder how long it will be allowed to continue?

          • @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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            It had already (been) stopped 3 hours ago.

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

        • @raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
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          1•2 years 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.

    • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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      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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        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.

        • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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          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.

          • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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            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.

            • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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              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.

              • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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                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.

                • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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                  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.

                  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocksB
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                    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.

    • @glassware@lemmy.world
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      Absolutely. I tried getting back into Usenet a few years ago and it was like Yahoo Answers.

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