I'm not asking about how it is used for warez, since that is what it mostly hosting at this point... Nor am I asking why anyone should or should not start a community on USENET (many reasons why you wouldn't/couldn't).

Instead, I am asking why someone would only decide to engage with the textual, traditional, conversational aspects of USENET over modern tools like lemmy?

I could name a few I suppose:

  • Relative anonymity
  • Access to a large amount of history
  • Nostalgia
  • Communication with those who still frequent newsgroups

I don't know how many more there are but I would like to hear your guys' opinions in regards to those listed above and any others I may have missed.

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago

Usenet is more or less dead. From thousands of servers to just a couple of free real Usenet servers and 60 or so corporate ones.

Its nice that there are a couple of free text only ones left, but the days of all universities and ISPs and anyone else sharing are long gone.

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