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What's the fundamental difference between Fediverse/ActivityPub/Lemmy and the Usenet? (feddit.de)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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€“] 3 points 3 years ago

Good question! I'd say that the fediverse is semantically much more complex and thus allows for more progress. It's like the difference between gopher and the web.

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