pinkydaemon

The Fediverse and classical Usenet are so similar IMO. I think Usenet is just so old that nobody outside of pirates is familiar with it.

This actually seems like a really good way to share some archived files from my NAS with my brother without relying on SFTP over WireGuard.

I completely agree with this and I think it’s because of the legal issues it avoids. I’m not a lawyer, but if I’m not mistaken, the entire fediverse doesn’t take a hit if a single server is a bad actor. Whereas sites like Reddit and Twitter need to defend themselves based on the content users generate.