Not protocols. High-level structure of a BBS/mailing list/forum/Twitter/etc. Protocols (in the technical sense) provide some constraints on what kind of structures can be built on their basis, but there are enough degrees of freedom to construct very different things on top of the same protocols.
Otherwise, Eliezer could have posted his Sequences on 4chan.
So the difference between LW and 4chan is protocols..? X-)
Not protocols. High-level structure of a BBS/mailing list/forum/Twitter/etc. Protocols (in the technical sense) provide some constraints on what kind of structures can be built on their basis, but there are enough degrees of freedom to construct very different things on top of the same protocols.
So the difference between LW and 4chan is protocols..? X-)