@deadsuperhero Good point, folks will do what they need to do and that is a large part of the power of federation.

Wrt usenet, there were the AOL hordes, but that passed. There was the beginning of spam, and that didn't.

But there were no big commercial entities to compare to FB.

Google did eat up the usenet archives I believe, w/vast parts now missing. We didn't handle that well, but then again, who's we?