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@MEtrINeS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-10-04 23:50
then every other system that lets people upload files is P2P, including things like Rapidshare, Google Drive, forums, etc. That wouldn’t make sense. You don’t know what you are talking about don’t you? It’s ok if you don’t know. P2P means peer to peer. Here you have a graphical description of usenet: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#/media/File:Usenet_s… From wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet When a user posts an article, it is initially only available on that user’s news server. Each news server talks to one or more other servers (its “newsfeeds”) and exchanges articles with them. In this fashion, the article is copied from server to server and should eventually reach every server in the network Please pay attention to: Each news server talks to one or more other servers (its “newsfeeds”) and exchanges articles with them. hmmm… it sounds like p2p. Here you have the fucking RFC for the command to share articles between servers: www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3977/#section-6.3.2 Even if you check the article headers you can see the path the article it took to reach to you. If the article wasn’t uploaded to your server, you can see that some articles that you are downloading came from different servers until it reached your server. Tell me, if rapidshare, mega, google drive, etc works like this. Well i don’t think so, because first you don’t even have different servers from different providers… You just have their servers, so they can’t share shit with anybody else’s servers. It’s not p2p for the enduser, but that’s why i said it was server p2p. OR maybe you operated a NNTP server with only 1 feed? (which i doubt). 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. Oh, wait you never used usenet! If you had used usenet before obfuscation took place, you could see that some articles where removed from some server but still available on another ones. That’s why there was a rule of having servers from different backbones cdn.rexum.space/…/Usenet Providers and Backbones …