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rahimnathwani on June 6, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative

I agree with your main point: tech isn't the problem here.

But a minor quibble: USENET wasn't exactly peer-to-peer. I mostly got to USENET through my university or ISP's NNTP servers. If I wanted to start a new group and get you involved, I would've had to set up my own NNTP server for you to connect to, using either your NNTP client or your own NNTP server.

rcarmo on June 6, 2023 [–]

OR you could talk to the newsmaster and have that one set up and propagated.

rahimnathwani on June 6, 2023 | [–]

Right, but she could reject or ignore my request.

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