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Huh, I thought Groups was after Dejanews. Usenet was decentralized, but not in the current sense of the term IMO. When I think of 'decentralized', and what I m

Huh, I thought Groups was after Dejanews. Usenet was decentralized, but not in the current sense of the term IMO. When I think of 'decentralized', and what I meant, was something offering anonymity and resistance to takedown orders, which are things it didn't have real protection against. I think the free labor issue could be circumvented by users having their own killfiles, and a fediverse approach of only syncing with 'good' servers.

bsder 3y ago
> Huh, I thought Groups was after Dejanews. Groups was contemporaneous with Dejanews. But Dejanews was basically going under when Google bought them. If it hadn't been for Google, Dejanews would have gone poof and we wouldn't have had any archiving of Usenet stuff at all.