The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be
The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be
With Google dropping support for the oldest of social networks, Usenet is now left without another major entry gate.
What a stupid article. Usenet has been quietly doing the same thing for decades, it never fell. The real reason Google groups is being shutdown is likely their partnership with Giganews ending. GN freely peered and hosted the content for Googlr, and GN was sold a few years ago.
Seriously people nowadays seem to be utterly convinced that not having endless growth that increases every year is a failure when that's a metric mostly used by fucking shareholders, not mattering to user quality
Anyone into media collecting/piracy should look into Usenet. I made the switch last year, and the experience is so much better for my use