usenet needs a hosting provider. And providers would usually mirror a subset of feeds so yeah you could think of it as distributed but it is a much simpler prot

usenet needs a hosting provider. And providers would usually mirror a subset of feeds so yeah you could think of it as distributed but it is a much simpler protocol. Freenet is more complicated, p2p, encrypted, anonymous medium and also the main difference is in the way the data is distributed on all participants computers instead of one central server.