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Re: "The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated"
Google getting out of Usenet might actually fix Usenet since it fell apart when Google tried to hijack and twist it into its own product.
Jan 29 · 7 weeks ago
The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated — I took a look arround and I found the same old hierarchy of big-8, company-sponsored and local communities. A precious few news groups are still inhabited by humans; some are inhabited by spam bots; most are plain dead. This is of course subjective to where I looked at and the depth of my research. There is some meaningful discussion in the groups that are still alive. There are very few groups on modern topics (e.g., there is a Raspberry Pi...