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		aftbit on April 13, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don’t record your social life on an append-only so... AFAIK it was intended to support the use case of being occasionally connected to the internet (one author spent a lot of time on a small sailboat in the south Pacific), while maintaining an order of messages.

nradov on April 13, 2023 [–]

Lotus Notes solved that problem over 30 years ago.

ilyt on April 14, 2023 | [–]

And newsgroups, email, uucp etc.

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