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Usenet won't be as effective, since it lacks "karma." People love up and down voting, and usenet simply does not provide that. That, and the the whole question

by tgv 3y ago

Usenet won't be as effective, since it lacks "karma." People love up and down voting, and usenet simply does not provide that. That, and the the whole question of who's going to pay for a large amount of usenet traffic. Think of all those images traveling uuencoded and being stored at every hub...

notacoward 3y ago
> Think of all those images traveling uuencoded and being stored at every hub. Yes, the text-only bias of Usenet (really NNTP) is a bit of a problem, but otherwise it's a pretty good starting point. Better IMO than ActivityPub, which is insane wrt consistency - e.g. everyone viewing a post from different servers is likely to see a different set of responses - and is actively cache-hostile. Fix the text bias, or add a side protocol for images like IRC did, and it would be pretty close to what you'd want for a decentralized Reddit (or HN) replacement.