 Today, I decided to check if Usenet is still *used* by people for discussions. Yes, it is. Take a look at this screenshot for yourself. Messages were posted to comp.sys.mac.advocacy today! Is this a popular way of doing social media? Not at all. However, it is persistent. You can accuse Usenet of many things: lack of moderation, spam, aesthetic ugliness, etc. But one thing you can't accuse it of is being dead. Right now, Usenet is 43 years old -- and it lives! 14 comments
 @atomicpoet Steve Gibson's GRC.com still has active USENET groups. https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm Usenet (NNTP) is good. The trick is finding the good newsgroups. Basically, the same issue as finding people you want to follow on Mastodon.  @atomicpoet I just need to find a good Usenet provider again, I'd love to add that back into my social media world.   @atomicpoet I was just looking into Usenet the other day. Itβs too bad itβs hard to spin up a personal Usenet server, or itβs super archaic at least. I have some resources on my home network. |
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Wow what a blast from the past