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Care to elaborate?

Because nowadays anything can be a startup idea.




I think part of what would make these things so especially useful is that they'd be simple FLOSS packages. "VC-backed modern-WvDial-replacement-as-a-service" doesn't sound so useful, does it?


>VC-backed

There’s your problem.


For example, a universal internet annotator/commenter tool. Dissenter has tried but it quickly got shut down.

The point would be that you could comment on and discuss any site without the site operators' interference.


Google tried that too with SideWiki, but it only lasted 2yrs I think. There must be somethin to it that makes it not as easy as you think.


That was just Google being Google, and its history of abandoning products. I wouldn't give it too much meaning, tbh.


Moderation. It's always moderation.

"Anyone can write there" also means "anyone can write bollocks there". From ye-olde name-calling and flaming to SEO/ad spam.


A little considered aspect of current "moderation" is that the mere need to create an account limits the total content volume And percentage of posted content which one would need to moderate.

It's almost like a variant of security through obscurity which actually has a meaningful impact.



stet was a bad implementation of a great idea but my god was it cool!

I am really puzzled why this idea did not catch in academia.

Only Rap Genious reimplemented it somewhat poorly.

And JIRA... even worse.


Dissenter is still around. You can just install it manually, its great but you have to dodge the odd nazi.


This seems like something Brave could get away with...


So, Reddit as a stand-alone app?


Basically, and it would work on a URL basis.


Usenet?


Not with the federal funds rate at 5% they can't!




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