Bitcoiners are big on wanting everything to be decentralized, under the idea that somehow this is always better and is the way of the future.

What about Usenet?

For those who don't know, usenet was a decentralized global message board. In the early days of the internet, it WAS the internet for the most part, it was most of what people did on the internet.

There were thousands of usenet newsgroups (basically, discussion boards) on every topic imaginable, and anyone could create a new one, and everyone on the internet had access to it. It was something of a lawless free for all.

This was a bitcoiner's idea of perfection, so what happened to it?

After the world wide web took off in the mid 90s, message boards started springing up everywhere. Centralized ones. Meanwhile, usenet was being deluged with ever larger quantities of porn, some of it dodgy or clearly illegal.

Usenet was kind of clunky and awkward to use, much like Bitcoin, and fewer and fewer people used it as they gravitated to centralized message boards, like reddit. Meanwhile, Internet Service Providers really didn't want to continue to deal with it, and eventually almost all of them stopped carrying it, as it was a hassle to put so much resources into carrying what was now hundreds of gigabytes of porn.

Usenet does still exist, of course, but it's now pretty much nothing but porn and pirated software, and you have to go through a private company to get access to it. As a global forum, it's dead.

Decentralization wasn't better. If bitcoiners think it was, then what are they all doing on reddit and the bitcointalk forums? Shouldn't they be off trying to resurrect usenet?