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USENET, the OG social network, rises again like a text-only phoenix
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Yeah, and talk to the two bots and one person who's been idle for 6 days.
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
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.
The ones surrounding popular open-source projects are often quite active.