Title says it. Is anyone still on the newsgroups? For reasons I need to amass a large collection of music in MP3 format, preferably full albums, and I’d like to do it somewhat quickly. Is there a better place to hunt before I buy news server access? I been on land for too many years.
Usenet actually has a very similar design to Lemmy. In fact I sometimes wonder why Lemmy didn’t evolve the Usenet protocol rather than invent one from scratch.
It’s a big discussion forum organized into a tree-like topic structure, replicated across multiple servers, and any participant can contribute via any of the servers.