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> anything goes, but in a way that works. Except it doesn't? One of the reasons usenet is dying is because without some sort of group-global moderation, everyo
by theamk 3y ago
> anything goes, but in a way that works.
Except it doesn't? One of the reasons usenet is dying is because without some sort of group-global moderation, everyone sees different things.. Newcomers see piles of spam, and when you don't get replies you are never sure is this something you said, or was your message silently filtered out.
It's like a forum where the moderators only ever use shadow-bans. Most people would hate such thing.
- LanzVonL 3y agoUsenet's been on the up trend for years now. It was dying in the '00s and early '10s. Now it's recovering. People are tired of Discord and Reddit, and even Hacker News.
- kazinator 3y agoLiterally every point you hit on is a Google Groups problem, not experienced by users who connect a NNTP client to server.
- theamk 3y agoNo, I never used usenet via google groups, this was Thunderbird + my ISP's NNTP server. Opening your favorite groups and seeing more spam than new threads was a big reason to quit. (A second one was lack of support for multiple devices: messages read on laptop would not show up as read on desktop. Funnily enough, Google Groups solves that problem, but I could never stomach their interface)
- LemmyInThePub 3y ago[dead]