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The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be (www.zdnet.com)
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[โ€“] spudwart@spudwart.com 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Well the issue with Usenet is the following:

  • Usenet is quite old
  • Usenet is not very well known.
  • Usenet has many barriers to entry.
  • Usenet groups have garnered an exclusionary reputation.
  • Other easier options have existed for a long time for basic social media interaction.
[โ€“] SeedyOne@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

It should be emphasized, the above list is accurate for Social Interaction as the discussions and text have indeed waned. It does mention that at the end, but still.

For media sharing specifically, many of those above items are either trivial OR are actually what helps it thrive. Somehow, 30 years later, we're still under the radar and maxing out connection speeds without having to VPN, seed, share or dodge ISP rules and DMCA requests.

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