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.
Back when usenet was the main subculture channel every ISP had a usenet server and many would mirror parts of the binaries trees of requested. Some would compete by offering more of the entire usenet feed
Everyone on the internet used it.
Now it’s a desert. You can dig for old opinions, old software. There’s no community outside the copyright infringement community.
The ISP competitions ah yes.
I also want to say (as in other comments I have posted) there are some communities exclusive to just discussion but they are rather slow and small.