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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Torrents was that it was decentralised

Kazaa/LimeWire/eDonkey was that it was resumable and could be downloaded from multiple sources

Napster was that you could download from someone else (and search) across all the users connected - you don't have to connect to each server.

Warez sites was that you could use the web. But all the links were broken all the time. Hotline made you run your own servers and you could be a little king of your own kingdom. But you couldn't search.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Newsgroups had direct downloads and files broken down into small multi part rar, with parity checks to make sure nothing ea corrupted.

IRC/XDCC had bots that you requested files from, and if they didn't have it they would sometimes find it for you and notify you when it became available.

[–] zarkanian 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hell yeah. I loved Hotline.

Retroshare is a modern equivalent, but there are no trackers, so you have to have some other way to find servers.