Comment on Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era
BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week agoBetter? No, it’s still unmoderated. So there’s some good stuff and there are twits. It’s the wild west out there.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Could you recommend any non-computer related good newsgroup?
BackYardIncendiary@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Yeah, that’s an issue. There are still several computing-related groups, but everything else is fading away. The only non-computing one I read is misc.news.internet.discuss. The Vancouver Canucks and Montreal Canadiens newsgroups both seem to have died during the past year. The Canadian football group gets the occasional comment. The old alt hierarchies seem slow or crud-infested. But if you want to follow comp.misc or Seamonkey updates, you’re in luck.
zloubida@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I love to use obsolete technology, things that still perfectly work but are abandoned. But on the internet, these things are generally populated by computer scientists, and it’s a thing I’m not 😅. It’s the same thing on Gopher, Gemini (it’s new but it’s the same ethos), IRC, …