Comment on Humans share the web equally with bots, report warns amid fears of ‘dead internet’

sundray@lemmus.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most Usenet discussion groups don’t even get spambot posts these days.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Really? How do people get greencards nowadays then?

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  • Zeoic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are chat groups with usenet? How does that work? I have only ever seen it used for downloading stuff.

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    • nyan@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Usenet started out as a forum-like system, with individual messages grouped into discussion threads (the protocol worked kind of like email, with messages indicating which other message they replied to, so that client software could build a tree for each group). That side of it was eventually killed off by lack of good moderation options or support for embedded media.

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