Our council gives us the replacement bags for free, which is great–But, in practice it hasn’t been smooth sailing. The bags disintegrate in a few hours if they’re in close proximity with anything slightly moist, to the point I’ve noticed many people stopped using the bags and dump their FOGO waste directly into their green waste bin. This is a problem in itself, because while the green bins are now supposed to be collected weekly, it appears they’re not.

I’m aware. You may have missed that I made that distinction in my first sentence.

With modern Usenet there are about 8 or so backbones used for file sharing. Your Usenet provider/server would connect to one or more of these backbones.

Its true Usenet is designed for federation, and in the 80s and 90s it was thousands of servers but today commercial Usenet providers just resell these 8 backbones.