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Anyone still using Usenet newsgroups? (lemm.ee)

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Read this Register article today and was wondering if anyone here still use Usenet newsgroups? And if so, what are your top recommended newgroups to subscribe to?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I logged into my Usenet provider yesterday. I read groups related to my hobbies, so not sure my recommendations would do you much good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Last time I checked out various newsgroups on different topics they were all pretty dead. What topics/which groups are you looking at?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Busiest one I read is probably uk.media.radio.archers about the BBC radio show

One of the posts on there today was about this article: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/30/usenet_revival/

which seems optimistic but a man can hope