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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[-] fratermus@lemmy.sdf.org 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

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