Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces

Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by pferde on Thursday February 13, 2020 @01:06PM (#22319871)

Something like that happened back when Slashdot was bought by Dice.com, and lot of users just up and left. Some people started building new, similar sites, but a lot of them agreed to go to Usenet newsgroup comp.misc, which had been long dormant by that time, with nothing but occassional spam posting.

Since then, comp.misc has been a rather nice place.

EDIT: Corrected the newsgroup name. Note to self: don't drink and type.

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by nonbirithm on Thursday February 13, 2020 @03:31PM (#22321165)

I opened up comp.misc and the first post was from 9 days ago arguing that women can't code, and the insinuating tirade of arguments.

I don't think you'd find that on HN at least.

I feel like since just anyone can sign up for Usenet these days instead of just the technologically motivated, communities like them have been altered significantly.

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by pferde on Thursday February 13, 2020 @04:48PM (#22321766)

Yeah, I haven't been there myself in months (I forget, plus do not have a NNTP reader in my phone), but I don't remember it being this bad before.

Still, there are still interesting threads, and with judicious application of PLONK (something you can't do on modern web forums like HN, by the way), you can make the worst idiots out of your sight.

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Re:Usenet – Let's Return to Public Spaces by superkuh on Thursday February 13, 2020 @05:29PM (#22322072)

Join us on alt.cyberpunk.

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