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Usenet, IRC, and Gopher have always been better alternatives to Reddit, Slack, and the bloated web.

That fills some void, but not all. I particularly liked the <local city> subreddits, used it to find cool events, but now the only alternative is .. Facebook or nextdoor (yikes)

There used to be local city newsgroups about 30 years ago.

I do not see why there couldn't be moderated usenet groups again.

Then again, last time I read a newsgroup was some 12 years ago when I created a simple newsgroup client (with built in Python nntplib) and qt.

There was some active news groups but very few.

This is an underrated notion, but I'd maybe point at XMPP instead as a better throwback

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