I think newsgroups would struggle to survive and be useful if they would get a massive wide adoption like social networks do. It would just be impossible to fil

I think newsgroups would struggle to survive and be useful if they would get a massive wide adoption like social networks do. It would just be impossible to filter out useful stuff and avoid spam. They worked ages ago because the internet was a smaller place, and they still work today because the number of people who use them has not increased by much (sorry, no source to back that up)