Why the open social web matters now

Re:Why the open social web matters now by immibis on Sunday October 19, 2025 @07:07AM (#45633421)

Incorrect when accounts are free. Usenet providers are forced to police users changing their email addresses or signing up multiple times, or else they get de-peered. IRC networks do IP address bans.

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Re:Why the open social web matters now by ndiddy on Sunday October 19, 2025 @02:55PM (#45636878)

For at least the past 20 years, Usenet has been so full of spam that it’s been made virtually unusable. If de-peering is an option, then why haven’t the providers that allow spammers to operate gotten de-peered?

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Re:Why the open social web matters now by immibis on Monday October 20, 2025 @03:42AM (#45640930)

Most spam was from Google. Google was kicked off Usenet last year or the year before that.

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