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What's the fundamental difference between Fediverse/ActivityPub/Lemmy and the Usenet? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Sorry I should marked it as AI :) From my experience usenet is more uncesored compared to fediverse. The most issue with fedi is that there is no tru replication system (mayby except sometimes data might be cached on other instance).