> It is if you want to have central page for people to visit. There is no "central page" for Usenet. > ...do you know how mailing lists work ? HN isn't the p

> It is if you want to have central page for people to visit. There is no "central page" for Usenet. > ...do you know how mailing lists work ? HN isn't the place for this kind of discussion style. If you insist on asking, I have been running email servers personally and professionally for 33 years now and have worked in enterprise tech companies specializing in email. I have a resonably good idea of how email works. > > Usenet > Central servers managed by people again. No. You can run your own Usenet node just as you can be your own email server. That's why these protocols are fully decentralized. You also can rely on someone else's Usenet server or email server, but that's your choice to make if you wish. You don't have to do that to participate in the ecosystem. That's the strength of decentralization.