Reddit is just going to demod everyone who wants to keep it closed and hand the sub over to whatever compliant stooges they can find. It's what they did to /r/drones.
Allowing users to instance block also lets us filter out the simply irrelevant. Good thinking.
Usenet was a stream of consciousness and, short of blocking individuals, there was no way to separate the interesting topics from the dull.
Maybe this is the best it gets. Upvoting and downvoting invite abusive behavior once the userbase gets widely distributed enough. Upvoting alone seems superior.
No one owned USENET, therefore there was not much investment in it. The question is how to make USENET profitable so that our corporate overlords will adopt it without replacing it.
For a non-technical user, or even a neophyte, the mere act of finding a Usenet news server is difficult.
This might be a good thing. All that is required is a little research and gumption. Filtering out those without that means a higher grade of users.
We all appreciate the gift of fire.
Link rot on YouTube is insane. I have been scraping old demos in case the accounts get reported or zapped for impolitic speech.
Regulation in general is too far from the locus of actual decision to be very precise. It's better just to keep government and big corps out entirely.
It's going to be difficult to jam outside of the cities. I imagine people are going to set up private wired networks in their neighborhoods, or use Wi-Fi mesh. The good news is that at that point, laws against piracy will be totally moot.
I will give this one a solid listen later. Thanks for posting it!
Will throw it on the review queue. Thanks for mentioning it.
The political system filters out the noncompliant, so the parties start to resemble one another.