And do you think something like Usenet could become popular under communism?
we are on something like usenet right now
☝️ yep, protocol doesn’t matter
what about something that’s also like usenet in spirit, not just in form/function?
what’s the spirit of usenet?
Like more of a free, unsanitized internet, one that never became corpo-friendly
Yeah I mean it was completely overrun by spam bots. But I guess McDonalds and Nike were never the beneficiaries of those. So in that way they were corpo-unfriendly. More of a small business libertarian vibe for sure. Boner pills etc.
But you do know that even at its peak usenet was controlled by a small, obscured clique of admins right? It was basically an old boys’ club. The whole nerd concept of “benign dictator”. Well it was a benign oligarchy.
At least on lemmy you know who the admins and mods are.
i don’t use it but for the asynchronous side of stuff there’s nncp. it’s supposed to be a modern version of uucp, which is what usenet used before the internet. not directly related but it seemed kinda cool ig
