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   Rich to nospam@example.net   
   Re: If you were to design a netnews prot   
   29 Aug 24 13:57:26   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   In comp.misc D  wrote:   
   > On Thu, 29 Aug 2024, yeti wrote:   
   >   
   >>> If the world has moved on, that's fine.   
   >>   
   >> Maybe.  I see not much fun New Fedistan (Mastodon & friends).   
   >> Generation 10 second attention span may see it differently.   
   >   
   > This is very interesting. I thought about this the other day, and came to   
   > the conclusion that for me, mastodon, is a worse usenet. More limits,   
   > slower, and with worse content and severely lacking in the blocking and   
   > filter department, but at the end of the day, pretty much the same.   
      
   Isn't Mastadon supposed to be the "open source twatter"?   
      
   If so, does it allow long form content, or is it intentionally crippled   
   to the same "brain fart" size message units as twatter?   
      
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