[gerikson]

Reddit recreated the social structure of Usenet. Shared infrastructure, but the subreddits managed themselves. Topics, threads... all similar to Usenet. Better multimedia support, of course.

Even the phenomenon of anonymous posters (because accounts didn't require an email for a long time), flames, crossposting... all very like usenet.

[rightbyte]

Usenet did not have moderators right? Reddit was more of a "run-a-forum as a service".

But the Big Drama made it clear that it's Reddit's forum, not yours. Bait and switch.

[kergonath]

> Usenet did not have moderators right?

It depends on the newsgroup. Some of them did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_newsgroup

[SyberShock]

There are still active, moderated newsgroups. The majority of them have dried up, but some are still relevant.

[gerikson]

Usenet did have moderation, as per this Reddit post (ironically):

https://www.reddit.com/r/vintagecomputing/comments/m2dtcg/us...

Usenet preceded modern social media so the current discussions about who owns content didn't apply.

Reddit was remarkably open in the beginning. Anon accounts, light moderation, open API... it's when they decided to try to extract more value that it became really shitty.

[mcv]

The one thing Reddit didn't copy from usenet was the decentralisation. In that sense, I guess Lemmy is a step forward.