Comment on Is Lemmy "just" Usenet plus voting?
cerevant@lemmy.world 11 months agoMy recollection is that access to Usenet requires a paid feed. Anyone can spin up a Lemmy server if they are willing to deal with the administrative hassle.
Comment on Is Lemmy "just" Usenet plus voting?
cerevant@lemmy.world 11 months agoMy recollection is that access to Usenet requires a paid feed. Anyone can spin up a Lemmy server if they are willing to deal with the administrative hassle.
thisusernameistaken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
well, you can use google groups web interface but that sucks. there is also the eternal september free text access. for premium access blocknews has 5 gigs for 2 bucks which will last forever if you are just reading text groups. 2 bucks (or the free options) are a lot less than what the server would cost to run a lemmy instance.
cerevant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, but google is paying for the newsfeed. You don’t have to pay to access the fediverse.