• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    Usenet also largely became a venue for bootlegging and porn – and due to the nature of the protocol, companies hosting Usenet services didn’t want to have to store all of that shit. After about 1995, you didn’t go there for discussion anymore. Eternal September messed it up. Lemmy is fortunate that you can’t really use it for file sharing, a few images notwithstanding, or the same thing would happen.

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      11 months ago

      and due to the nature of the protocol, companies hosting Usenet services didn’t want to have to store all of that shit.

      You can opt not to carry certain newsgroups, eg skipping alt.binaries.* would reduce your storage requirements drastically.

      The fact of the matter is that people wanted something more “instant and accessible” than newsgroups that were synced overnight, and modern social media sprang from that desire.