So do we.

https://rootbadger.com

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Tom Mix

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Tom Mix <tommix@mixmin.net> writes:

So do we.

https://rootbadger.com

Looks really well laid out. Can you share more about it? Is it
centralized as in it's only available on this website or is there a
network of websites that share the databases? Is it available over
other protocols? Are you the sole author?

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On 2026-07-25, Tom Mix wrote:

So do we.

https://rootbadger.com

Given the amount of times this is being advertised here, that's about to
cross a threshold of me never looking into it because it's being
advertised as if this were a TV commercial spot :-P

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Nuno Silva

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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:

On 2026-07-25, Tom Mix wrote:

So do we.

https://rootbadger.com

Given the amount of times this is being advertised here, that's about to cross a threshold of me never looking into it because it's being
advertised as if this were a TV commercial spot :-P

Same, Nuno.
--
The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
refuse military service. ~ Albert Einstein


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On 2026-07-25, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-07-25, Tom Mix wrote:

So do we.

https://rootbadger.com

Given the amount of times this is being advertised here, that's about to cross a threshold of me never looking into it because it's being
advertised as if this were a TV commercial spot :-P

Just another centralized message board among hundreds (thousands?) that
already exist. The novelty is the usenet-like group hierarchy otherwise
it looks just like Digg (RIP), Reddit, Lemmy and others.

If I've learned anything over the last 20+ years of modern social media
it's that they either collapse or live long enough to sell your data.
Usenet, the original social media platform, has been around since long
before most Silicon Valley social media founders were born and it will
remain long after they're gone.

I'll stick to the original, warts and all.

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Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> writes:

Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> writes:

On 2026-07-25, Tom Mix wrote:

So do we.

https://rootbadger.com

Given the amount of times this is being advertised here, that's about to
cross a threshold of me never looking into it because it's being
advertised as if this were a TV commercial spot :-P

Same, Nuno.

I saw Lisp Club on a post header of your article. Are you discussing
Lisp anywhere on the USENET or anywhere else on the Internet? Please
share?

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Anton Antimo <anton@safunu.org> writes:

[...]

I saw Lisp Club on a post header of your article. Are you discussing
Lisp anywhere on the USENET or anywhere else on the Internet? Please
share?

Thank you for informing me that you have noticed.
I won't reply to it, because it is a personal question. And clearly
off-topic here.
--
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes
all the difference. ~ Alan Alexander Milne


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Ted W. wrote:

Just another centralized message board among hundreds (thousands?) that already exist. The novelty is the usenet-like group hierarchy otherwise
it looks just like Digg (RIP), Reddit, Lemmy and others.

If I've learned anything over the last 20+ years of modern social media
it's that they either collapse or live long enough to sell your data.
Usenet, the original social media platform, has been around since long
before most Silicon Valley social media founders were born and it will
remain long after they're gone.

I'll stick to the original, warts and all.

Yeah, I think it's an interesting project but hardly anything that is particularly new by any stretch - and you can already seen in quite alot
of social media (especially the Reddit and Lemmy-like) the roots of the original social media platform.

Nothing has ever truly replaced it in its entirety - because it'd only
be a copy...

(Collapsing or living long enough to sell data - quite the nihilistic
way to look at it but hardly unfounded in the modern era)

--
- Mokka

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

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On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:02:25 -0000 (UTC), Ted W. wrote:

On 2026-07-25, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 2026-07-25, Tom Mix wrote:

[...]

Just another centralized message board among hundreds (thousands?) that already exist. The novelty is the usenet-like group hierarchy otherwise
it looks just like Digg (RIP), Reddit, Lemmy and others.

If I've learned anything over the last 20+ years of modern social media
it's that they either collapse or live long enough to sell your data.
Usenet, the original social media platform, has been around since long
before most Silicon Valley social media founders were born and it will
remain long after they're gone.

I'll stick to the original, warts and all.

There is also something to say about just the simplicity. I have run a
lemmy instance and still find it frustrating that you have to use web
browsers to utilize the platform. KISS really applies here in that we
already have protocol standards for discussions and minimal clients with minimal network connectivity required.

Multimedia is rather over-emphasized on popular disccussion platforms and
is better served on their own dedicated platforms for their binary types.

As a side note, I would prefer its own protocol for the different types of media to be consumed (as with NNTP for mainly textual discussion) however, it's a far fetched and not well thought out idea of mine that I wouldn't expect to see ever happening in the wild at any great scale.

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In article <1143mb1$1uena$1@xy0.dont-email.me>,
Ted W. <ted@xy0.dont-email.me> wrote:

Just another centralized message board among hundreds (thousands?) that >already exist. The novelty is the usenet-like group hierarchy otherwise
it looks just like Digg (RIP), Reddit, Lemmy and others.

...and even that isn't exactly new. One iteration of the BBS I ran in the early-to-mid-'90s was on a Linux box with a menu interface implemented as a shell for users. It participated in the local FidoNet, which also had a
Usenet gateway. I carried some newsgroups (comp.sys.apple2,
rec.arts.startrek, and probably some others I don't recall), gatewayed
through FidoNet back into a local NNTP server, and the menu interface was
set to run trn to read them (the same trn I'm using right now :-) ).

The FidoNet echoes I also carried were shoehorned into a Usenet-ish
hierarchy, which sounds like what this Root Badger (?) site is doing.

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