Pretty much the question. I heard about Usenet a while back but never managed to wrap my head around it.

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    10 months ago

    So TLDR an older version of fredivesrse and activity pub but without moderation and all instances are premium ?

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      10 months ago

      They weren’t always premium. Your local ISP or college often ran a server for their users in the old days.