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by 1500100900 1094 days ago
Give Mastodon a threaded view and technically it's the same as reddit, but federated? Usenet, but not just for nerds.
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That’s basically just Lemmy/kbin. Those two services can even interconnect with Mastodon thanks to ActivityPub.

As I’ve said elsewhere in this thread, moving text around on the Internet has been a solved problem ever since NNTP. And that was 1986!

The only problem is that there’s not a lot of money in it, which is why having the ability to federate a bunch of smaller services together is such a good solution (at least on a technical level).