Just as social media has become ubiquitous in academia, its established formats and dynamics have been brought into doubt. Björn Brembs argues that learned societies concerned with their core missi…
Which always bewildered me whenever my dad would tell me to “search usenet” whenever I couldn’t find something. He got into the 'net early-ish, the first time I became aware of it was around 2004, it was already closed (no public registrations) by then.
The Fediverse is just Usenet 2.0. The trick will be if its design can keep enshitification at bay.
Isn’t usenet a closed - as in non-publicly-anonymously-accessible - platform?
No, back in the 90s, ISPs had local clones of the entire Usenet subscribers could access directly.
Which always bewildered me whenever my dad would tell me to “search usenet” whenever I couldn’t find something. He got into the 'net early-ish, the first time I became aware of it was around 2004, it was already closed (no public registrations) by then.
It was a great way to get porn!
Turn on the connection before you got to bed and wake up with a fresh batch
As someone who had to pay 13 cents per minute in the 90s, this sadly was not an option.