2026-10-04 12:14 UTC
usenet is p2p: server p2p. The servers share the articles between themselves in a p2p manner
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@dan@upvote.au 2026-10-04 22:45
That’s not what P2P means though. With Usenet, the articles are stored on a server, and you download them from the server. P2P always means one peer directly connects to another. The reason P2P systems exist is that they avoid things like takedowns (since you’d need to take down every user instead of a central server), and Usenet doesn’t have that advantage. If Usenet is P2P, then every other system that lets people upload files is P2P, including things like Rapidshare, Google Drive, forums, etc. That wouldn’t make sense.