@HopelessDemigod I would say the federated model of usenet actually offers more resilience. I was always a bit wary of reddit's stranglehold on it's own space.
But that also is the issue with usenet. When Google hooked up Google Groups and flooded the whole system with both users and bot spam it became difficult to deal with. Cut out both users and spam, or try to handle spam one by one?
(A situation not dissimilar to the fediverse/threads situation)