From: anonkitty@nowhere.invalid   
      
   Dan Skunk  wrote:   
   >>       Now... If by "no one" you mean the "modern, low-attention span,   
   instant   
   >> gratification" "if it can not be found in a high bandwidth, always live,   
   >> web-browser session then it doesn't exist" type... I might agree.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Basically that. Telling people to find a server, then configure a client   
   > to connect to it isn't going to work as well as click on this picture   
   > and go.   
      
   I don't think NNTP users actually want approachability, though. AFAIK   
   anytime it happened (eternal september, Google Groups and the proliferation   
   of binary groups) it's been decried and mocked due to the accompanying   
   influx of spam and the deterioration in quality of discussion.   
      
   There seems to be a bit of pride in being the few renegade hipsters that   
   engage with social media as if it were 1992 and compared to the fast-paced,   
   chaotic, corporate blunder of modern social media, there actually is a   
   point to using Usenet, IRC and BBSs over more modern alternatives TBH.   
      
   The smarter the system, the dumber the user, it seems nowadays.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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