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Finger and whois.

It was solved over 40 years ago.

That's the thing with social networking. There's a few core problems and it's been solved many times. Such as in 1973 at Community Memory in Berkeley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Memory

Or through newspaper classifieds ads, French salons, compuserve, bars, aol, cb radio, friendster, phone phreaking party lines, dialup bbses, icq, irc, myspace, Facebook, netnews, whois/finger/talk/uucp. If you read Carolyn Marvin's book, "When old Technologies Were New" (1988) you'll see her documentation of this in its first digital form - via lonely telegraph operators chatting with each other in the 19th century.

It's the network, not the medium, that matters.



It needs to align with the evolution of content consumption, which I'm sure it can. That's why i said (re)


This is a great take. Added the book to my list




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