From: not.my.real@email.address   
      
   rek2 hispagatos wrote:   
      
   > On 2023-10-05, Auric__  wrote:   
   >> rek2 hispagatos wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> I been posting in alt.2600 was not sure people followed this   
   >>> newsgroup.   
   >>   
   >> Not really, not any more. Its poularity started declining... eh, I'm   
   >> gonna say "a few years ago" and leave it at that. Nowadays all that   
   >> comes through here is mostly idiots, criminals, and losers... and the   
   >> fact that I'm here doesn't really speak well for me, either.   
   >   
   > haha, well now a days I see more people coming back, tired of what http   
   > has become for most part excluding the fediverse and some other parts of   
   > course. Mostly older folks like myself that grow up with usenet, BBS's,   
   > fidonet and such and notice how specially the web has come down to 3-4   
   > corporations farming peoples data and people willingly giving it to   
   > them. *shrugs*   
      
   It's a few more than 3-4, but not by much. I've been moving away from Usenet   
   for some time, but I haven't really replaced it with anything else, largely   
   because the closest replacement would be web fora, and the vast majority of   
   those just suck. (If you find a post on a forum using the handle "Auric__",   
   I guarantee it's a Usenet mirror... and probably also several years old.)   
      
   As for data farming, there are ways around it. Just sayin'. (Google knows   
   who "Auric__" really is, unfortunately. A few people that used to post here   
   and other, similar groups do as well, and... I wanna say maybe 5-10 people   
   know my details.)   
      
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