As another user commented above: Reddit was a company, Usenet is owned by no one, you can create your own groups, share groups you like not only from you etc. Moderation on Usenet in some groups might have been strong but far from Reddit: on Reddit mods are "Gods", on Usenet mods can be pushed out simply contacting enough users via mail or some other group. They are not that powerful.
Also on Usenet scoring, killfiles etc are yours so you can ban my posts because you do not like them, but others will see them, while on Reddit if a mod ban someone it's for all or no one.
Spam on usenet was and issue because at that time antispam was not good as today, today we can filter spam enough, if just there is enough interested public. So far usenet is far from being dead, it's used by few to share mostly pirate binary contents like Radarr/Lidarr/Sonarr series. With commercial orgs. That's not usenet of course, but that's still possible and it's useful enough to prove it's strength and flexibility.
Just see another example: Popcorn Time. A super-success people have abandoned simply because instead of install an app most prefer going to streaming websites, not really because of legal actions or ban. ZeroNet is built on the same principle, it's legal, made to share websites, nearly no one seems to be interested again because they can find some place to write text hosted by someone else. Or: the issue is cultural not technical. People en masse do not comprehend the meaning of freedom so they ignore it until it's tangibly lost and at that time it's too late.
Against such phenomenon there is no technical solution, only social ones...
> Subreddits have kinda replaced usenet groups of old.
Ah, but USENet is decentralised, Reddit is not.
> Also how to handle spam, thats been a killer for usenet lately
Last time I checked, the spam still being posted on USENet is Zombie-spam by long forgotten bots. A strong kill-list in a good client should easily minimise that problem.
There has been a revival of USENet by the smolnet and Web 1.0 people - some of the groups are active with almost no spam.
You forgot the pirate part: Radarr/Lidarr/Sonarr/NZBGet/* or paid binary groups. A showcase of how usenet archaic arch is still far more powerful than modern web ones...
kkfx|3 years ago
Also on Usenet scoring, killfiles etc are yours so you can ban my posts because you do not like them, but others will see them, while on Reddit if a mod ban someone it's for all or no one.
Spam on usenet was and issue because at that time antispam was not good as today, today we can filter spam enough, if just there is enough interested public. So far usenet is far from being dead, it's used by few to share mostly pirate binary contents like Radarr/Lidarr/Sonarr series. With commercial orgs. That's not usenet of course, but that's still possible and it's useful enough to prove it's strength and flexibility.
Just see another example: Popcorn Time. A super-success people have abandoned simply because instead of install an app most prefer going to streaming websites, not really because of legal actions or ban. ZeroNet is built on the same principle, it's legal, made to share websites, nearly no one seems to be interested again because they can find some place to write text hosted by someone else. Or: the issue is cultural not technical. People en masse do not comprehend the meaning of freedom so they ignore it until it's tangibly lost and at that time it's too late.
Against such phenomenon there is no technical solution, only social ones...
Jaruzel|3 years ago
Ah, but USENet is decentralised, Reddit is not.
> Also how to handle spam, thats been a killer for usenet lately
Last time I checked, the spam still being posted on USENet is Zombie-spam by long forgotten bots. A strong kill-list in a good client should easily minimise that problem.
There has been a revival of USENet by the smolnet and Web 1.0 people - some of the groups are active with almost no spam.
kkfx|3 years ago