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"Reviving Usenet: Building a Meaningful Social Network"

Jan 7, 2024 - 10:57pmSummary: The speaker reflects on a podcast featuring Mark Andreessen on Rick Rubin's show, highlighting Andreessen's enthusiasm for Usenet and its decline after AOL popularized the internet. They consider the potential of small, intelligent social networks to create something meaningful, especially with a few members who have programming skills. The speaker sees the endeavor as a social game that could be enhanced by designing an experience with enough structure to engage people, yet open-ended to allow for personal contributions. Committed to this vision, the speaker expresses a willingness to work tirelessly to refactor their code base, improving it to facilitate collaboration and assist others in the effort.

Transcript: I'd also like to point out there is the Mark Andreessen and Rick Rubin podcast that I was listening to this morning. Rather, it was Mark Andreessen on Rick Rubin, Tetragrammaton, and he just mentioned early Usenet and yeah, I don't know. Again, like, we haven't networked intelligences yet. We're like speed running computing in some way, I guess. I mean, maybe yes and maybe no, right? History definitely does not repeat itself. But again, maybe it does rhyme. But anyhow, the point being, like, he basically was having great enthusiasm for Usenet, and apparently it was, like, some September where it all burned, basically, when AOL got everyone online. But I do wonder, you know, again, maybe this is the social network aspect, microsocial network is getting 100 smart people or 25 smart people into a room, and at least a few that have programming experience and be able to, yeah, do something. And I very much wonder, like, this is something that I'll have to bring up talking to Kristen and Dave tomorrow because it's a social game. It's effectively a social game. And we can design an experience or potentially, like, we give enough scaffolding to make it interesting, and then let people build on it themselves. And I will literally stay up all day and night to help people if that's what it takes. Like, I know my code base is not the best, and it needs to be refactored in some ways. There are many ways I wish to refactor it, and, like, if it takes, like, just putting the head down and doing the work to make it easier for people to do so, like, so be it, you know? Let's go.

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