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Look, does anyone remember Usenet?

You could run your own group. You could join any groups. It was up to your local Usenet admin which groups were carried at your site (usually a university or government domain) and how widely your local groups got promoted.

It was also up to you/your admin what you DIDN'T see in your usenet feed. Lots of sites didn't carry alt.sex.*, for example.

If your're old enough, "the fediverse" is kinda familiar.

@happysinger It also takes a critical mass and stable enough infrastructure, which it now seems to have. PubSubHubbub as-was just didn’t have that before.

@happysinger I had the same notion, although I was somewhat sceptical that it would take off, mostly because the alternatives at the time (birdsite and, to a lesser extent, tumblr and other self-hosted alts) seemed to *mostly* sane. How the world has changed.

Is it mastodon etiquette (or whatever the portmanteau for this is) to "favourite" toots as "I like this" but without adding further comment?

@happysinger The older I get, the more I suspect that my entire youth was an egregious fiction, probably of my own fevered making.

@happysinger TIL that the line "all covered with sand" was a complete and utter lie.

From birdsite 

@Drunkenmadman It's like moving house, then your former neighbourhood selling tickets for you to see it raze itself to the ground.

Virtue is eating leftover birthday chocolates, *then* eating grapes, right?

Well, this is already less terrible than the birdsite.

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