USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix - eviltoast
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        1 year ago

        It’s mostly this unless you go to a popular server on a linux channel. I did that recently from windows 3.11, and it was just like the good old days

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          I was never really on the IT channels, so that wouldn’t do it for me. I was big on #ProAudio (back in the days when I did that for a living) and #Atheism and #Indiana to meet local people. Nobody on any of those channels on any of the nets I used to be on, if those themselves even exist.

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        1 year ago

        The ones surrounding popular open-source projects are often quite active.