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We have actually regressed significantly on that and we could easily go back to before it existed. Before Reddit there was (and still is) a decentralized discussion network called Usenet. It was extremely well designed and has none of the design flaws that Fedverse has. All newsgroups were automatically merged across all instances. Your UI showed you only new comments and submissions, in the newsgroups that you subscribed to. You could mark a comment tree as killed, and then you wouldn't see any new comments in that particular comment tree even while still subscribed to the newsgroup. You generally had your choice of moderated or unmoderated group for each topic, with tens of thousands of topics.
The only reason people don't use it anymore is because all the free servers disappeared. But now I see all these new free Fedverse servers, which is great, but how come no new free Usenet servers? They could be ad supported. I started using the internet in 1982 and Fedverse feels like a reinvention of the decentralization wheel, which a bunch of design flaws the original has already solved long ago. If there were free servers again, and perhaps a new mobile client, Usenet use would skyrocket as people personally experience how easy and seamless it is.
I’ve never tried Usenet, but I’ve heard little bits about it here and there. What’s a good way to give it a try?
There are commercial Usenet servers you can access for $5-10 bucks/month. You can find them by google search.
For a Usenet client you can look here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders
you can view pretty much the complete history at groups.google.com. if there any usenet group still active they would show up there as well but it's a wasteland as far as i can tell. pity, i spent billions of hours on it back in the day.
here's a group i was active on back in the day, if you can filter it by just stuff from the 1990's you might have an idea of what it was like to use it. (of course, it was mostly terminal/console based text readers back then, web browsers were new and scary.) https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.synth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Usenet_newsreaders
Usenet has more clients than anyone else.