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This is awesome! (self.fediverse)
submitted 2 years ago by crazyminner to c/[email protected]
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Can we all stop the in-fighting for a minute and realise how awesome the platform we are on is?

We are forming communities on the realized image of the internet that we were told we would have back in the 80s and 90s.

You can make your own home on the web and have your own niche community, not owned by any corporation, while still being connected to the wider internet.

This feels like something out of a sci-fi movie.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Feels almost like going back in time, to the earlier days of the net. IRC, XMPP, Usenet… all distributed.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Usenet is distributed. If you don’t mirror bins it’s not impossible to run your own “federated” server.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Feels like FIDOnet ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I loved FIDOnet - I dialed into the Chicago node to send an "electronic mail" when I was in the boy scouts. I knew I had to have that at home.