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I use the terminal-based slrn (S-Lang Read News). You need a newsreader with killfile processing. Note: there is spam, but not nearly as much as you see through the Google Groups interface, and that's the interface that offers no filtering features. Hey look, has a new post, from the somewhat kooky, but topical, KPop 2GM There are new posts daily in newsgroups like,. Google did also acquire a Usenet archive, and then make it impossible to use.Īnhyway, Usenet is alive and (sort of) well. So it might have looked like Usenet is somehow transitioning to Google. That happened right in the middle of a decline that was happening, driven by ISPs shutting down their NNTP servers. Usenet is a federated network of NNTP servers Google just joined that with their own implementation having an awful web front end, which they proceeded to revise in even worse directions. There are a few other interesting characteristics - the specific nature of the tree approach and the availability of lots of specific groups gave it some uniqueness - Today you might see a bit of that in Reddit subs, Facebook groups, and other similar platforms, albeit lacking the tree. Over time as internet access became more widespread that signal to noise decreased, and most modern forums still have difficulty with it. Up through the early 90s that natural filter mechanism kept the focus of individual groups small, reduced noise, and increased signal. That significantly restricted the available pool of people using it, and also filtered that pool. You either had to be working on one of the small number of companies that were internet connected or were at a university. In the early days of Usenet there were very few ways to access it from the perspective of an average person. The question is - What are you missing? I suspect you probably miss something that has more to do with the participants. Just not necessarily with the kind of people your chemistry matches with. But if you look at reddit, discord, or web-forums in general, you will still find hyper-focused spaces. At best you get some overhomogenized communities, like this hackernews here. Today it's different, you have anyone from anywhere making a space. With special interests, from a special age and culture. You had some kind of natural selection, as internet generally, and usenet specifically only lured very specific people in. But usenet was also significant smaller, as was the whole internet at the time. Yes, usenet had more nerds and expert, more technical capable people. I get the impression your problem is more about the people, not the platform.

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> generally quite professional and frankly didn't have the same clientele as Reddit does. It's more about finding a sub and filling it.

And in terms of hyper-focus I would say, reddit has far more focus today than usenet ever delivered. But pretty fast there were also an equal amount of non-tech-groups. > Reddit fills some of this niche, but Usenet was tech-focused,ĥ0:50 I'd say. File sharing on commercial servers seems to be very popular now, and the discusion-groups are receiving more spam than actual worthy content. There also were public groups, maintained by some hive-mind-org or something.Īnyway, Usenet still exists, it's not dead, technically. Everyone can have one, most big providers and tech-companies had one in the early days. Usenet itself is made of decentraliced servers. They did not acquire usenet, they acquired Dejanews, a big usenet-archive and gateway to the usenet. Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups.

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