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Re: "The reports of its death are greatly exaggerated"
ERRATA: I use a news server that only carries text messages; thus alt.binaries and such are out of the scope of this question.
Follow-up question: where are the periodically posted FAQs ?! These used to be a thing in Usenet back then.
Jan 28 · 7 months ago
🚀 ElectricalDance · 2024-01-28 at 20:57:
Well, google announced they will stop supporting usenet, but who cares, google does not support Gemini and we are thriving, and google likes to destroy projects even more popular ones.
💎 istvan · 2024-01-29 at 16:04:
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.
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...