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I really miss IRC and usenet. And I know both still exist but I miss the communities there 😊
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I do sometimes go back, but most of the places I used to visit are empty other than bots sharing crap. It used to be such a great place, had really supportive groups but also many many weird ones.
usenet seems to be mostly used for filesharing/piracy these days. It'd be cool to have a resurgence of active, moderated text based usenets but most of them AFAIK are bot filled these days.
Yeah, those dang bots! I haven’t found a place I used to visit without tons of spam
I never really used Usenet but IRC I definitely miss. Its main problem was that keeping yourself connected and seeing messages when you are away involved having bots that replay them to you or some screen running on a remote server that lets you connect to it.
All these various communications apps we use today are largely just worse, but prettier versions of what IRC could do.
I agree. IRC was definitely great. Staying connected was definitely a problem, but the conversations made up for that. I had so many good friendships there, and I loved the ease of creating a new channel and gather there with friends. The ops system was definitely really good. You could do everything with the channel.
I do frequent old servers I used to hang out on sometimes, if they still exist, that is, but like usenet, most channels are for downloading or nsfw stuff. Really sad, it was such a cool place to be!