[neuromantik8086]

Modern services such as reddit and Twitter effectively usurp the role that Usenet/NNTP and similar distributed protocols used to fulfill, but without the advantage of decentralization / lack of large single points of failure that such protocols embraced. That's what I was getting at, and maybe I'm full of shit.

In the 80s if a university campus internet connection went down, only that university was affected. Now, when a single AWS availability zone goes down, a much wider swath of users is impacted. Such consolidation / centralization shows a disregard for the spirit of the early internet and design considerations that went into it.

Again, maybe I'm full of shit. Lots of people here seem to think so.