Re:Usenet, the OG social network, rises again like a text-on...
by mindcrime on Thursday August 31, 2023 @11:26AM
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The threading and only seeing new messages is a lot better in my Usenet client than any web forum that I use, including this one.
Yep. The Usenet experience is nice. The only thing that really got me out of the habit of participating frequently was a combination of two factors:
1. My ISP quit providing NNTP access by default
2. So many other people moved off, that a lot of the groups became nothing but CfP's, spam, and maybe 1 actual interesting post per year.
But in the spirit of "be the change you want in the world" I guess I'll bit the bullet and sign up for a Usenet account somewhere, or stand up my own server and look into what it would take to get peering setup.
Yep. The Usenet experience is nice. The only thing that really got me out of the habit of participating frequently was a combination of two factors:
1. My ISP quit providing NNTP access by default
2. So many other people moved off, that a lot of the groups became nothing but CfP's, spam, and maybe 1 actual interesting post per year.
But in the spirit of "be the change you want in the world" I guess I'll bit the bullet and sign up for a Usenet account somewhere, or stand up my own server and look into what it would take to get peering setup.