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		HankStallone 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram ... Even better, Usenet, which is what the web-based forums were a poor replacement for.

Timwi 10 months ago [–]

I've used both Usenet and web-based forums side by side in the 90s–2000s and I thought they were both perfectly adequate.

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