• zabadoh
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    1 year ago

    Usenet Newsgroups before they got overrun by spam bots.
    Such great discussion with interesting personalities back then!
    Nobody trying to “build their brand”. If they were famous, it was because they contributed something good, like consistent reviews or deep dives of stories/movies/TV.

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      I trialed a Usenet subscription for about 30 minutes after I left Reddit. It’s a barren wasteland, like an old shopping mall in a zombie movie. I was very disappointed.