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  • to make USENET profitable

    Hosting binaries is costly. Text is fairly cheap.

    Any reasonably technically competent person can host it online for < $100/y if they want a replacement for web forums. You could even write a brand new nntp server in less than a week. The standard is simple.

    If you want federation, then you have to consider peering with other servers to share feeds.

    corporate overlords will adopt it without replacing it.

    I don’t think corporations help here. Google famously bought DejaNews and tried an EEE move on usenet with Google Groups.