From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ron Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: [off-topic] Anyone still using USENET?
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2023 08:05:31 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230127160531.GE5393@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <emad68cbf6-057e-4f49-8a43-2f8e2cd07490@e41218a5.com>
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 09:24:03AM +0000, Ron Natalie wrote:
> Nothing on it but spam and porn now unfortunately. Such a shame. About
> the closest I???ve come to the sense of the old USENET is reddit.
Reddit is sort of a centralized Usenet with voting. In the old days,
centralized would have never worked but it works now. If you can live
with the fact that Reddit has a lot of echo chamber stuff going on,
it's quite pleasant.
Reddit is my primary news source these days and I wade through a lot of
random stuff there. There is a lot of noise but once in a while some
cancer thing will come up, I take a look at the comments, there will be
an actual oncologist / cancer researcher in there who will say "yeah,
this is in the lab only, not tested on humans, not interesting for at
least 10-20 years" or, rarely, "this is very promising". For the latter,
you go off and read the article.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-27 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-27 8:53 [TUHS] " arnold
2023-01-27 9:03 ` [TUHS] " Lars Brinkhoff
2023-01-27 9:24 ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 9:34 ` John Cowan
2023-01-27 16:05 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-01-27 17:01 ` Angel M Alganza
2023-01-27 17:08 ` Larry McVoy
2023-01-27 10:36 ` parodper via TUHS
2023-01-27 14:45 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-01-27 14:51 ` Ron Natalie
2023-01-27 14:56 ` Ron Young via TUHS
2023-01-27 17:39 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2023-01-27 17:42 ` Henry Mensch
2023-01-27 19:23 ` Stuff Received
2023-01-29 9:00 ` arnold
2023-01-28 0:23 ` Kevin Bowling
2023-01-28 10:15 ` Andy Kosela
2023-01-28 17:01 ` John Cowan
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