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Re:Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020) by vic-traill on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:02AM (#28500769)
I gave up on Usenet newsgroups when the noise in groups of interest (mainly rec.music., comp.lang. and comp.sys.*) led to me spending too much time managing my killfile in relation to actually reading and replying to news.

It really was too much to self-moderate your way through. The volume was just too much. As well, you couldn't sort through the trash to find the pearls.

The volume was a trickle compared to volume today. I don't have a source for this assertion, but I think it is reasonable.

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Re:Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020) by mattowen_uk on Sunday September 12, 2021 @01:54PM (#28503268)
On the basis that all the spammers have moved onto riper fruit such as Facebook and Twitter, I do wonder if Usenet will see a resurgent, after all in the good groups it's just a federated version of HN in style.
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