• yukichigai@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The fact that usenet has still hung on all this time as more than just a place for people to share pirated files is honestly impressive, and also is a pretty decent endorsement. Unfortunately it has a fair number of weaknesses, especially in terms of moderation tools and access these days, but ultimately a lot of what people want in a social media platform can be found on usenet. An effort to update it for modern sensibilities might actually create something pretty cool.

  • JoelJ@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m all for getting into old school tech, I even like to browse neocities.org on occasion just for the hit of nostalgia for the old web rings. I never got into newsgroups though, and I’m wondering what reasons you might use that instead of something like Lemmy, Mastodon etc?

    Apart from the piracy side, I know all about that already lol

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      1 year ago

      Because all the oldheads are there and they have a wealth of arcane and also useful knowledge you can’t find anywhere else