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D wrote:
99.9999% of usenet is troll farm, where "discussion" is almost entirely chatbots chatting/chattering coactively, filling active newsgroups with
their "nothing burger" some thirty-two years under trollfarm occupation, withal, some newsgroups (not many) still attract non-robot contributors:

(using Tor Browser 15.0.5)
https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/

Index of /usenet/CONFIG
Name Last modified Size Description
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[TXT] HIERARCHY-NOTES 2010-01-18 03:50 27K
[DIR] LOGS/ 2026-02-01 01:00 -
[TXT] README 2019-01-07 02:58 14K
[ ] active 2026-02-02 13:00 2.0M
https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active *
[ ] active.bz2 2026-02-02 13:00 264K
[ ] active.gz 2026-02-02 13:00 292K
[TXT] control.ctl 2023-08-05 15:57 104K
[ ] newsgroups 2026-02-02 13:00 2.3M
[ ] newsgroups.bz2 2026-02-02 13:00 620K
[ ] newsgroups.gz 2026-02-02 13:00 685K
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https://downloads.isc.org/usenet/CONFIG/active
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alt.binaries.*
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unmoderated usenet newsgroups are still useful as the public repository
for lurkers and researchers, to that extent kudos to nntp server admins
for collectively sustaining this internet-accessible plain text library,
but any conversation between non-robot participants is a million-to-one

Does the source of this information have any proof of this?

I'm not buying it. If you look at the history and the personalities and some of the groups, some of these people have been around for quite a number of years. Hard to believe that they are chat bots.

Now if you're talking about Reddit, yes maybe that's a different story.


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