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What's the fundamental difference between Fediverse/ActivityPub/Lemmy and the Usenet? (feddit.de)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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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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[โ€“] [S] 7 points 3 years ago

The Usenet is a very old and federated system. Same as the Fediverse, the Usenet is based around a single protocol (NNTP vs ActivityPub which Fediverse uses). Same as on the Fediverse, there are lots of different applications for it, that represent data in a different way.

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