The history of Usenet should be required reading for anyone making the public spaces argument. Usenet was a non-corporate, distributed, unmoderated public space. It ate itself.
That’s the beautiful story of Usenet. No sure that there are interesting lessons to learn from it.
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Usenet didn’t eat itself. It died from censorship, centralization, bad design and an infrastructure that didn’t scale.
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Usenet died because of alt.binaries. irc was saved (for a bit) when they stopped the voice chat companies relaying on it
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