When humans finally make settlements on Mars and venture into space, decentralized web will be resurrected, as anything else would be utterly unusable with the interplanetary latencies.

> I keep dreaming of someday seeing a resurrected Usenet, but I know it will never be anything but a dream.

Maybe not. You're definitely not the only one who wants something like that.

There are definitely still some active text groups on usenet. Either people that never left or folks returning/visiting for the first time, the potential is there.

Years ago some folks broke off from Slashdot and started posting to comp.misc. They're still going today

There seem to be quite some people in here feeling the same about USENET.

I had a quick look around, and the tools aren't trivial to set up. If someone who has experience with NNTP servers could bundle things as nice Debian packages with easy setup then that may help spread it again.

Spam can be reduced by using moderation, I wonder if there are new ideas around for countering spam in non-moderated groups?