After reading a bit about Usenet, it seems to me as if the whole Fediverse seems to be just a reinvention of Usenet.

What's the big difference?

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[โ€“] [S] 8 points 3 years ago (1 child)

This looks like written by ChatGPT, and it is in many ways straight up off-topic or wrong.

  • Origin/Era: yeah, duh. That was already stated in the question.
  • Architecture: It doesn't actually show any differences, it just doesn't talk about different parts of the architecture. Usenet is also federated and Fediverse instances also don't store all messages.
  • Content structure: This is the closest to an actual answer. But from what it seems, the default use case of the Usenet is identical to Lemmy.
  • Protocols: Stated in the question. NNTP is also federated.
  • Moderation: This is straight-up wrong. There are moderated and unmoderated newsgroups, same as there are moderated and unmoderated instances/communities on the fediverse.
  • Modern Relevance: This whole section is irrelevant to the question.
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