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Federated social media from before it was cool (lemmy.world)

submitted 16 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Usenet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

IRC, bulletin boards that had links to each other…. The old net was decentralised by default.