Campaign to revive Usenet, IRC and personal blogs. Who’s with me??
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Usenet is still going to some extent, but seems to be full of people posting junk and spam.
IRC is still going
Personal blogs are too, writeAs / WriteFreely is part of the fediverse.
I am all up for this, as long as we don't let big tech be involved.
So could we have a re-imagined Usenet but one that uses activity pub at the core so items federate,.
@zleap Self-hosting / co-op hosting is key to escaping the corporate stranglehold, yes. Google more or less killed netnews.