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With null talking of shutting down, and at the very least contracting the site back to its core of lolcow watching, I've become interested in finding some worthwhile forums that aren't imageboards or attached to the mega social media platforms (I'm including discord in this). Something about forums is very cozy in these times. I'm also going to include fediverse communities. I remember a few cool ones like Free Speech Extremist when I was active on the KF Pleroma.

So if frequent or know any, feel free to post them here; any subject or focus is fine as well.
 
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The search engine Boardreader can help you find some. It's a search engine designed to scour through forums. Granted not all forums are in their search engine themselves and a lot of results you'll find are from reddit.
As for what you consider quality? Well that's up to the eye of the beholder. You can't find any forum these days without something being wrong/autistic/lolcowish/ect. with it. Even the IGN Boards have a section about Sex, Health and Dating.
 
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Many large box stores have employee forums for disgruntled wage slaves. Theyre a good place to vent about everything.

If we go into exodus again i just hope i find another xenforo one. All other forum software is an absolute bag of dicks.
 
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Basically none of them. Most of them are either obsessed with identity politics or is overran by nerds.
 
USEnet newsgroups.

I don't remember who set it up, but someone here set up free.homesteading.kiwis ... not sure how many NNTP servers it's carried by, but I use nntp.aioe.org (as suggested by whoever it was that started this group in the first place). It's free and it works. As an added bonus, you need newsreader software to access it, thus acting as something of a retard filter though this has the side effect of leaving concentrated autism within said newsgroups.
 
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Saint Alphonsus said:
None.

Go out and find new people IRL to befriend. The internet can be a springboard for IRL connections, but not a substitute for them.

Don't succumb to VirusRegime's designs of keeping humanity in boxes addicted to glowing rectangles.
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Let's just meet up at the house Lolcow, LLC is registered under and hang out there

It's pretty awesome looking and right by the beach
 
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USEnet newsgroups.

I don't remember who set it up, but someone here set up free.homesteading.kiwis ... not sure how many NNTP servers it's carried by, but I use nntp.aioe.org (as suggested by whoever it was that started this group in the first place). It's free and it works. As an added bonus, you need newsreader software to access it, thus acting as something of a retard filter though this has the side effect of leaving concentrated autism within said newsgroups.
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my ISP was a very late holdout and finally dropped free usenet about five or six years ago, but I wouldn't mind dipping back into it
 
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XYZpdq said:
my ISP was a very late holdout and finally dropped free usenet about five or six years ago, but I wouldn't mind dipping back into it
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I remember the days when my ISP still hosted binaries newsgroups and had decent retention (about 1100 days IIRC). Sadly, they got bought out by a major ISP group in my country, and the more obscure geeky stuff like news hosting eventually fell by the wayside.

It's nice to know that there is a group of folks that are holding out and keeping what's left of usenet alive.
 
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Robert Sanvagene said:
I remember the days when my ISP still hosted binaries newsgroups and had decent retention (about 1100 days IIRC). Sadly, they got bought out by a major ISP group in my country, and the more obscure geeky stuff like news hosting eventually fell by the wayside.

It's nice to know that there is a group of folks that are holding out and keeping what's left of usenet alive.
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mine only retained a few weeks, but had the binaries and hey, free is free
 
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