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What did Usenet cost to run? What does Reddit's core functionality cost? They have annual revenue of half a billion dollars. Tell me that you can't use that
by mapt 3y ago
What did Usenet cost to run?
What does Reddit's core functionality cost? They have annual revenue of half a billion dollars. Tell me that you can't use that money to run a text distribution infrastructure.
I doubt Slashdot in its day cost half a million dollars to run.
- pjc50 3y agoUsenet cost was distributed to ISPs, which eventually sank it as they lost interest. And it never solved the moderator conundrum; at one point, a third of Usenet was spam, and another third was "spam cancels" deleting the spam.
- halfbrite 3y agoI wish there was a Usenet client for iOS that matched the beauty and usability (and accessibility) of Apollo. I wish there was Usenet servers to back that up - which didn't carry the binaries or unsavory newsgroups.