> Personally I would love to see Usenet replace localized Facebook groups. It actually happened the other way around. Local ISPs had newsgroups that had limit

> Personally I would love to see Usenet replace localized Facebook groups. It actually happened the other way around. Local ISPs had newsgroups that had limited distribution where people local to you would post about upcoming events, things they were looking to rent or buy, things they wanted to sell, etc. > The ISPs might not want to pick up the tab for running the servers There's nothing really stopping a local ISP from running a server that's not connected to an upstream feed and requiring credentials to post. That would be localized and a lot more relevant to those in the community if they really wanted a local discussion forum.