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This was part of the point I wanted to emphasize.

This article talks at how amazing usenet was with it's millions of words a day.

Now any article would take of the valuation of usenet with it's millions of words a day. Someone making a modern usenet wouldn't open their protocol in fear of losing advertising money.

Would twitter, snapchat, etc have their valuations if they released fully open protocols (both client and server)?