I’m not asking about how it is used for warez, since that is what it mostly hosting at this point… Nor am I asking why anyone should or should not start a community on USENET (many reasons why you wouldn’t/couldn’t).
Instead, I am asking why someone would only decide to engage with the textual, traditional, conversational aspects of USENET over modern tools like lemmy?
I could name a few I suppose:
- Relative anonymity
- Access to a large amount of history
- Nostalgia
- Communication with those who still frequent newsgroups
I don’t know how many more there are but I would like to hear your guys’ opinions in regards to those listed above and any others I may have missed.
But don’t you pay for its use, like providers and indexers? Seems archaic, and I’ve never had enough good reasons to use it so I’m curious what others say. If I did, I was a teenager and probably didn’t understand what I was using anyway.
No I do not, The only reason to really pay for it is to be able to download warez or use specialized newsreaders that integrate with indexers and the like. Just not my speed.
You would use it for the same reasons that you use lemmy. Just back in the late 80s until the early 00s; and with a lot more spam…