Post B1sxAtJa5kxU2eoVea by acsawdey@fosstodon.org
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 (DIR) Post #B1swzVXg8ak57vynbs by somedude@sfba.social
       2026-01-01T18:25:50Z
       
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       Great quote from @pluralistic:"The fact that you have to figure out whether the discussion you're trying to join is on Twitter or Bluesky, Mastodon or Instagram – that is just the most Prodigy/AOL/Compuserve-ass way of running a digital world. I mean, 1990 called and they want their walled gardens back[.]"https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/
       
 (DIR) Post #B1swzWz0mSCTazm8qu by coucouf@framapiaf.org
       2026-01-01T18:46:36Z
       
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       @somedude @pluralistic Mastodon in the list of walled gardens ?? 🤔
       
 (DIR) Post #B1swzY5melDB2Hx42y by acsawdey@fosstodon.org
       2026-01-01T19:17:30Z
       
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       @coucouf @somedude @pluralistic The 1990s equivalent of Mastodon is some combination of gopher server, public domain/shareware based bbs system (FidoNet et. al.), and uucp 😂So if I think of it in those terms I can see his point. It’s the space outside the walled gardens.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1swzZ9MivfeJgdRGi by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2026-01-02T20:20:27Z
       
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       @acsawdeyAnd there was a nice FidoNet echo conference::Usenet/uucp gateway. Bidirectional.  @coucouf @somedude @pluralistic
       
 (DIR) Post #B1sxAtJa5kxU2eoVea by acsawdey@fosstodon.org
       2026-01-02T20:22:33Z
       
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       @tomjennings @coucouf @somedude @pluralistic living as I did near UIUC, for a while I had access to a Unix port of the PLATO “notes” system, which got a feed of Usenet newsgroups over uucp. There was lots of interoperability back then.