[Jaruzel]

> Subreddits have kinda replaced usenet groups of old.

Ah, but USENet is decentralised, Reddit is not.

> Also how to handle spam, thats been a killer for usenet lately

Last time I checked, the spam still being posted on USENet is Zombie-spam by long forgotten bots. A strong kill-list in a good client should easily minimise that problem.

There has been a revival of USENet by the smolnet and Web 1.0 people - some of the groups are active with almost no spam.

[kkfx]

You forgot the pirate part: Radarr/Lidarr/Sonarr/NZBGet/* or paid binary groups. A showcase of how usenet archaic arch is still far more powerful than modern web ones...