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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't like 90% of the traffic on Usenet from alt.bin.*? In other words, file sharing. I've looked around some newsgroups, and most of them are just filled with spam posts

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I mean with Streaming Services cutting down the Password-Sharing so that you need to pay multiple expensive services to get access and it's not convenient anymore with having to switch between them to find something to watch I'm not surprised that a piracy-heavy social network is thriving...