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Is he reinventing USENET netnews?

• hinkley 2y ago
  Spam started on Usenet. As did Internet censorship. You can’t just reinvent Usenet. Or we could all just use Usenet.
  • stackghost 2y ago
    >Or we could all just use Usenet. Usenet doesn't scale. The Eternal September taught us that. To being Usenet back into the mainstream would require a major protocol upgrade, to say nothing of the seismic social shift.
    • hinkley 2y ago
      That’s also my feeling. There’s a space for something that has some of the same goals as Usenet while also learning from the past. I don’t think it’s a fruitful or useful comment to say something is “like Usenet” as a dismissal. So what if it is? It was useful as hell when it wasn’t terrible.
• bb88 2y ago
  Yes and no. I think the issue primarily is that I could never just generate a new newsgroup back when usenet was popular and get it to syndicate with other servers. The other issue is who's going to host it? I need a port somehow (CGNAT be damned!).