A lot of interesting development in this area is being done via nostr. They’ve got several discord alternatives based on nostr, as well as twitter clones, fitness apps, and all other sorts of interesting infrastructure. If you want to join the future of the decentralized net, check out nostr. Unlike lemmy/activitypub, your identity is NOT tied to a specific server, which makes it more robust.
Usenet was great until the big spammer who’s name I don’t remember ruined all the text groups and all the ISP’s stopped offering them for free
Bring back? They never left.
There are literally Usenet communities on Lemmy with guides on how to connect.
Where?
Searching Usenet in Voyager yielded over a dozen results. !usenet@lemmy.dbzer0.com seems to be somewhat active.
The channels I liked are all gone now though
“They should bring back user forums” says last man on user forum.
I literally use Usenet every single day
I like most of IRC but line termination and message length limits suck
Fix those and it’s great
_xmpp-client._tcp.example.comWho is they? IRC still exists
