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I've made that, called Aether. https://getaether.net (Source at github.com/nehbit/aether)

Why don't we just bring back Usenet?

To be fair Reddit was basically Usenet in web form for the longest of time. Then they needed to make money.

Consider Member -

It's got Reddit style functionality (HN style theme at present) with all content on the Bitcoin (BCH) blockchain.