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?

    • Pixel@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Yeah but there’s different ways to interact with the fediverse via activitypub, whereas Usenet was just. Usenet

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      It’s actually several standards, the primary one is activitypub but mastodon also uses webfinger, and for example peertube uses p2p transfers to serve video