If they got off their virtual asses and explored USENET at scale, then guess who/what would follow them right on to USENET? USENET is only what it is precisely

If they got off their virtual asses and explored USENET at scale, then guess who/what would follow them right on to USENET? USENET is only what it is precisely because "nobody" uses it. And what it is isn't exactly a utopia anyhow. Nowadays you have to build out a network with the explicit design goal of preventing this from happening, and execute on it skillfully.