• Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    low quality posts

    You’re being charitable, imo. USENET was plagued by a seemingly never-ending parade of mentally ill savants who lived to post, lived to troll and lived to avoid killfiles. It made it deeply unpleasant.

    I see in the AMA they’re discussing moderated newsgroups, I never saw any in my day but frankly, moderation is often worse. Reddit had, I think, the most workable idea of them all, community policing and hiding content beneath a threshold. The unfortunate corporate reality of Reddit begat Lemmy and here we are now.

    With Lemmy and the Fediverse, I don’t see USENET as being in any way relevant, other than its continuing role as a solid resource for above-average pirates. I don’t miss it even a little bit, it was utter rubbish by the end.

    • darreninthenet@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      There was some moderated groups, the group name usually ended in .moderated.

      All it meant was somebody with the moderator role on that group had to approve every post… only thing I never understood is how one became a moderator on those groups 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • JuliusSeizure@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Ultimately Lemmy isn’t any better than Reddit because your “account” is tied to a server, so it isn’t truly censorship resistant. It can easily get as bad as Reddit is with the ham fisted censorship at the whim of some misanthropic moderator.

      Nostr is certainly the future once it matures a bit more and becomes more user friendly.